What do you do when the holidays leave you with bits of nuts and fruits? Dump all those odds and ends in a bowl, stir in some melted chocolate and call them clusters. These won’t win any beauty awards, but they are great to have on hand when a craving for salty chocolate hits.
There aren’t [...]

There it was. Staring at me with sad little orange eyes. Every time I opened the refrigerator, I could hear its insidious whisper:
“Please don’t throw me away.”
But what to do with it? I had about a cup of pumpkin puree leftover from Thanksgiving. Trying to find a savory recipe just seemed like a lot of [...]

This is the second recipe I earmarked from the November issue of Cooking Light (that Beef-Barley Soup was the other one). And like the beef-barley soup, this was a hit.
I followed the recipe pretty closely, except for one change. In the magazine, the recipe calls for skinless, boneless chick thighs. Those are pretty hard to [...]

Here’s another recipe that I got from Cooking Light magazine. We tend to eat a lot of soups around here, and I’m always looking for new recipes. This one caught my eye because it looked more like a stew than a soup.
This is a pretty basic beef barley soup, made with chuck roast, carrots, celery, [...]

I tore this recipe out of Cooking Light magazine almost two years ago, and I’m kicking myself for waiting so long to try it. Here’s the recipe from the Cooking Light website.
The chocolate cake part is a simple, lower-fat chocolate cake that uses reduced-fat mayo to make it moist. A cup of strong coffee gives [...]

Finally, I have the recipe for the Fresh Fruit Muffins. I made these one last time last week, just to make sure that I was satisfied. I was.
A couple of notes: First, I found that if I used too much fruit, I couldn’t get the muffins out of the pan. About a cup of frozen [...]

Remember these cookies? At the time, I was thinking of all sorts of variations besides lime and cocoa nibs. It took me a few months, but I finally got around to trying a couple of different combinations.
The first combination I tried was chocolate with coconut. I made the basic cookie dough recipe, but left out [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter
What does one do when the intended last recipe from this book fails miserably and there’s a pile of overripe bananas sitting on the counter? Try one last recipe that hopefully includes a lot of bananas!
This basic cake starts out by creaming [...]

In the bottom of my fridge is a collection of flours, powders and nut meals. Last time I checked, I had spelt flour, wheat bran, almond meal and dried buttermilk powder. I also had a bag of oat flour, so when I saw this recipe, I knew I had to try it.
This was my second [...]

I came across this recipe while in culinary school. One day, my cooking buddy Jamie came into the kitchens declaring that we had to make these cookies. I think she found the recipe in a mailer from a ricotta cheese manufacturer. At that point, I had never baked with ricotta cheese, and I was skeptical. [...]