Fix-It and Forget-It

The name pretty much says it all. There is, indeed, lotsa cheese in this recipe, and the results are outta this world. (It’s so good that we seem to have lost our grip on the Queen’s English.) Continue Reading...

I get all sad when corn season and peach season end here in the Northeast. Deep into September, I kept pestering the standholders at market about whether or not they’d have sweet corn for at least another week. Finally they stopped promising.

I drive by a fruit orchard every day on my way to work, and one day the “Fresh Peaches” sign was down—and so was I. I was grumpy for a week, and then I saw the bins of fresh apples spilling into their parking lot. I stopped for Macintoshes—and I was cured.

Here’s a feast for your eyes, just to remind you how sturdily lovely fresh apples are:

Mom's "Tupp" Apple Cardamom Cake

And then there’s this zipped-up apple crisp recipe (which is really more of a cobbler) with a surprise ingredient that only makes the dish sing. I made the recipe earlier this week for a cooking class of experienced cooks, and they were amazed by the zesty brightness that the dish holds. We had a baking pan of the crisp left over after the class—and our staff quickly divided it up for their lunches!
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