Tag Archives: dessert
Caramel Sundae Syrup
One of my favorite grocery store product shortcuts is Smucker’s Caramel Sundae Syrup. Homemade caramel is not difficult to make, but I find the flavor of the Smucker’s brand perfectly pleasant, it keeps for a long time in the fridge, … Continue reading
Chocolate Desserts
Chocolate Recipe #1. Peanut butter and chocolate is a combination that sends me up to the moon… there’s nothing better, really. Unfortunately we have a serious nut allergy in my not-so-extended family, so I have to keep recipes like this … Continue reading
Apple Picking Recipes
My husband and I used to go apple picking even before we had kids, and it has evolved into a natural family ritual every autumn. We love the rustic farms pressing their own juice, selling homemade crunchy-cinnamony apple cider donuts, … Continue reading
Make It a Girls’ Night Out at Home
Speaking of the carpool lane, it is creeping up on me! Thanks to a a special friend who was in town a few weeks ago, inklings of a girls’ night out started surfacing on Facebook. It sounded like just the … Continue reading
Taste Test: A Trio of S’Mores
What comes to mind when you think of summer? Quick, take a few seconds to think of a few images. The beach, hot nights, cold drinks, barbeques on the back patio,… s’mores? I can’t get through summer without a few … Continue reading
Cooking from the Carpool Lane: Fresh Fruit Desserts
This is the second installment of a new column by Robin Horrigan, Cooking from the Carpool Lane. After a long, harsh winter in New England, there is little I look forward to as much as the overabundance of beautiful, inexpensive … Continue reading
Cool Treats for Hot Days
My family spends most of its summer weekends at our beach house, and we love to have friends join us. As lovely as that sounds (and it is delightful) sometimes a day at the beach is no picnic. Someone is … Continue reading
A Taste of Chile: Tres Leches Cake
Every so often I encounter a particular food on a trip and I will not stop thinking about it until I can get it again or recreate it. Three years after my first taste of authentic Tres Leches Cake (three … Continue reading
Are You There, Chocolate? It’s Me.
My name is Magda, and I’m a chocoholic. My addiction began innocently enough. Candy bars were the gateway drug. As a child, I’d regularly spend a portion of my allowance on Three Musketeers, M&Ms, or Milky Ways. In the teen … Continue reading
From the Editor
Swine Dining
Cooking from the Carpool Lane