Last June I was in Cleavland (or rather the suburbs of Cleavland) for a weekend. While flipping channels in the hotel room I saw an add for some diner chain we don’t have out west. They were advertising their new burger, billed as “A big beef burger
Read more →A trend I have noticed in many of the vegan cookbooks siting on my shelf is that often basic recipes are omitted and they go straight for variations. This seems to be particularly true for “cheesecake” recipes. A few weeks ago when I was stuck with the
Read more →Warming up for this season’s fall baking, I decided to start with a variation on last year’s pumpkin pie. Last year I had mentioned that later in the season I discovered the joy of a streusel topped pumpkin pie, but I never posted a recipe. This is
Read more →When the weather turns on you, nothing is more comforting than a hot bowl of soup. Growing up in Seattle, we had an abundance of two things: cold weather and great seafood. While seafood is off my radar now, sometimes you want a hearty bowl of something
Read more →Recently I have been on a big “cheesecake” kick. I have been working on recipes off and on for a while, but recently found I was headed in the wrong direction. Starting out, I had been operating under the assumption that I needed to use agar or
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