Tag: fruit

Is there anything more wholesome than pie? The very word brings a smile to one's face, and it's associated with all sorts of pleasant things -- someone who is sweet as pie (or a …

<img alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2494/3761666013_f4cbdf1d75.jpg" title="Plum Jam" class="alignnone" width="500" height="333" /> <br /><a href="http://www.thedomesticfront.com/2009/07/28/jammin-plum-jam#plumjamrecipe">Skip straight to recipe</a> I have a confession to make. I have not been entirely truthful with all of you. I have been cooking …

I'm not much of a summer cook. I like to cook the foods of cooler weather -- spicy gingerbreads, hearty stews, root vegetables that stick to your ribs. Summer, at least in Los …

It's the fourteenth of July, known in France as Le Quatorze Juillet and in America as Bastille Day. It's a national holiday in France, celebrating the Revolution and its principles of Liberte, Egalite and …

It's become fashionable or a mark of pride to eschew recipes. You'll hear many cooks boasting of how they never use a recipe, or they just use techniques they know on whatever they have …

Have I ever mentioned that I am a raging Anglophile? I jealously hoard Colman's mustard, studied abroad in London, wrote my undergraduate thesis on franchise reform in Parliament, and pepper my speech with phrases like …

They say you are either a cake person or a pie person. While I think that this is a somewhat loaded dichotomy, and the "cool" answer is nearly always to be a pie person, …