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I said that coconut-apricot cookies are my favorite holiday treat that I make, but I am a good Scandinavian, and there’s no doubt that spr...

It was the photo that lured me into making this recipe from The Kitchn (go and look at it, because my picture sucks with a suckiness I can ...

Of all the treats I routinely make for Christmas, these may be my favorite—and they don’t even have chocolate in them. Almost every recipe I...

Even though I consider myself a major vegetable fan, I hadn’t really tried fennel before (the bulb, I mean; my father loves fennel seed and ...

Aaaaand…we’re back to cookies. Spice cookies (gingerbread, pfeffernusse, etc.) are traditional at Christmas, but I can never muster up much ...

We interrupt Cookiefest to bring you a salad break—and I’m sure we could all use one, right? This recipe from Jamie Oliver (via Serious Ea...

Even though my favorite way to celebrate Christmas is by making, giving, receiving, and eating homemade goodies, one of my most beloved holi...

We always have almond bark for Christmas, but I’d never really heard of or eaten peppermint bark before I got an itch to make peppermint bar...

Happy new year! I know that after the holidays know we’re all sick of sweets and snacks and trying to eat light and healthy fare. Believe me...

Holy cow, I made biscuits! Honest-to-goodness, delicious biscuits! And it was so incredibly easy! OK, biscuits may not be the hardest thing ...

Oh, yum. I spotted this why-didn’t-I-think-of-it recipe in Pioneer Woman ’s brand-new cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks . I love her humor...

I know this photo looks pretty much exactly like the one for pear butter , but it's just a trick of the light, I swear! The apple butter...

This brilliant, easier-than-pie little chicken recipe from The Hungry Mouse tastes about like what you'd expect, but that's hardly ...

I still have several pounds of beans from the Rancho Gordo samplers I received last Christmas, and now that the weather’s grown cool enough...

Searching for a pear butter recipe to add to my burgeoning jam collection, I found this one on Epicurious and was instantly smitten with th...

Ta-da, my collection of pureed green soups is now complete! Actually, it didn’t occur to me that this soup might be a dead ringer for severa...

I don’t even remember how I stumbled across this recipe , but once I saw it, I knew that I’d have to try it, and that it would be well wor...

This recipe is a favorite of mine from Carole Walters’ indispensible Great Cookies . The original name is “Chock Full of Crunchies,” which i...

When my friend P left the country for a month and gave me temporary custody of all her canning supplies, it seemed like a good time for me t...