It is fall and that means two of my favorite fruits are in season: apples and pears. And early fall is best to me, because that is when honey crisp apples are available in our local orchards. My daughter, Emily, needed a break from the college grind, so I picked her up, we went for…
Category: Breakfast
Cammy’s Honey Spiced Apple Muffins
For Cammy’s contribution to our Rosh Hashanah celebration, he made the apple cupcakes from Joan Nathan’s The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen. We call them muffins because they seem better to us as a breakfast treat rather than as a dessert. The warm spices evoke thoughts of the oncoming fall. They are best drizzled with honey, but go…
Cucumber-Melon Smoothie – San Diego Cooking Adventure, Part 3
It is my last day in San Diego, time for another treat, i.e. another smoothie with wonderful fresh fruits and veggies! I decided that today was my day to go green and use green – honeydew, cucumber, and lime. Heather and I had had a wonderful brunch in La Jolla – Amazing huevos rancheros and…
Whole-Wheat Zucchini Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins – San Diego Cooking Adventures, Part 2
While I am here in San Diego, it appears that my role is to make the “treats” – smoothies, veggies to go with the wonderful fish Ken has been making, and now, muffins. When we went to the farmers market we picked up some zucchini from Sage Mountain Farm, then I ran to Sprouts to…
Carrot Mango Lemon Smoothie – San Diego Cooking Adventure, Part 1
While staying with friends in San Diego, I got to try some cooking with a whole new bunch of local foods! So the first order of business was a trip to the Hillcrest farmers market. What a treat that was! Lots of things we don’t get in the mid-atlantic: mangos, figs, almonds, olives, freshly dried…
Rosemary Mini-Donuts & Mini-Muffins
Time for an experiment… Flying to California this spring, I found a recipe for Rosemary ‘Fonuts’ in the airline magazine “Spirit”. A savory donut…I was going to have to try it. But as I was baking, Arielle tasted the batter and said “This would go well with a vanilla glaze”. So our combo of savory…
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Bread
There is always debate in my house over what to put in the zucchini bread. Ali and I like raisins and nuts, Arielle and Emily like raisins, no nuts, Lauren likes nuts, no raisins. But today, Arielle – my official zucchini bread baker – is home and we decided to try a new approach –…
Cammy’s Popovers
Cammy’s latest creation won high approval from the rest of the family – light and airy popovers! As we always do, we reviewed the recipe in Mollie Katzen’s Pretend Soup ahead of time; he is getting good at this, he was able to “read” many of the instruction pictures to tell me what he was going to…
Blueberry Cake
A blueberry coffee cake – another winner from JoyofBaking.com! I made this last year to rave reviews by my friend Karen’s family. So I decided to make it again this year for a work retreat. The reviews were just as high this time around. Since I, once again, did not change a thing about their…
Zucchini Bread
Every year, seemingly endless loaves of zucchini bread fill our freezer. There was already one there from Arielle’s baking last weekend. When I went to the garden and found some zucchini I had apparently missed a few days ago, I realized my zucchini bread baking was about to begin. And it was going to be…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 