Recipes

Does the thought of a healthy cookie conjure up images of dry, tasteless and small culinary concoctions? Come on, I know you buy that “healthy” little green box of cookies and eat every last one because you think you can. I’m not being Judgy Judgerson, I just ...

People, people, people. This week you are going to be so happy with my creation that you might just want to name a street after me...

Well, I’m sure you thought, “It’s 2012, the beginning of the year, the time we all try and re-invent ourselves.” I’m also pretty sure you thought I would come out low-fat, gluten-free, no sugar, blah, blah-ing you to death. But nope, not the case. I’m giving you an ...

Oh, how I want to break out into September songs — you know, something like, “Do you remembaahh the 21st night of Septembaaahh,” or maybe slow it down a touch with September Song by Frank Sinatra. I love them both, and either one has me jumping for freaking joy that ...

And just like that, it’s legal to wear white pants again. Memorial Day has come and gone, and now starts my bevy of freshberry and no-bake desserts. Of course, it is also shorts season, so perhaps I will break out some low-fat, low-sugar, help-the-cellulite-...

I could give you a thousand reasons why you will love this week’s treat, but then I would have to take you out behind the woodshed and ... well, I can’t reveal the torture methods inflicted on people who find out my Dessert Diva secrets. But I will tell you that tofu...

Oh summer, you are disappearing before my eyes. Not that I mind too much — the heat really gets on my last nerve. It’s just the fact that time goes faster and faster, stopping for no one. I’d better get all my patio happyhouring in before it snows. All right, that...

I read something the other day that began to the tune of: “The new fad is cheap cuts, slow-cooked and elegantly presented...

This week, I decided to talk about something dear to my heart: getting laid. This recipe is the ultimate time-to-take-things-to-the-bone-zone meal, unless you’re cooking for your family — in that case, I say, do not cook this particular recipe. It’s just too powerful...

Oh March, it seems like forever since we last rendezvoused. I know you are reliably snowy, but you bring me spring, and so I, in turn, dedicate this dessert to you: Blueberry Sweet Cake...

Alas, the new year is here...

How can any holiday baking marathon be complete without everyone’s favorites, gingerbread men...