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Gooseberries and other Lesser Known Berries (and 5 links for Friday)

June 18th, 2010 · 13 Comments

Gooseberries are one of those things I don’t think to seek out at the market, but am always pleasantly surprised to find on the table when they arrive in early summer. What’s a gooseberry? I didn’t know myself until I spotted them at the Dupont Circle Farmers Market a few years ago. They are small […]

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Tags: at market · baking · dessert · five on friday

Local Potluck Tuesday June 15 (and Strawberry Shortcake)

June 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments

I couldn’t let strawberry season pass us by without the obligatory sink-full-of-berry photo, er, recipes, right? After being told one local farm was out of strawberries, I rushed to our neighborhood farmers market first thing last Saturday to grab half a flat from Black Rock Orchard. I made a small batch of freezer jam and […]

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Tags: at market · cooking with kids · dessert · local potluck tuesday · recipe

Real Milk as a Luxury Food? (and Homemade Butterscotch Pudding)

April 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Jane Black is the first byline I look for when reading the Washington Post weekly food section, and one of my favorite food writers anywhere. So I was excited to see her write up some fantastic local dairies this week. I was a little disturbed, though, to see some references on Twitter to her article […]

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Tags: dessert · drinks · grassfed · local farms · recipes

Snowflake Coconut Cake with Maple Snow Cream

February 14th, 2010 · 11 Comments

What to make when you’ve been snowed in for days? Snow cake, of course! When I proposed baking a cake the boy first suggested chocolate. I talked him into a “snow” cake instead, a.k.a. coconut. We used Ina Garten’s coconut cake recipe, though I used unsweetened coconut instead of the sweetened she calls for. Really, […]

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Tags: baking · cooking with kids · cooking with toddlers · dessert · recipes · sweets

Kids Cook: How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

October 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments

This is our entry for Kids Cook Book Soup — Apples! Check back later today for the full round-up. The Story: This lovely book, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, by Marjorie Priceman, caught my eye at the bookstore with its colorful illustrations. In it, a little girl sets out to […]

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Tags: apples · baked goods · cooking with kids · dessert · kids cook book soup · recipes