Chestnut Tart with Dark Chocolate Ganache
This chestnut tart with dark chocolate ganache sits on top of a pecan shortbread crust and is topped with a lightly sweetened vanilla cream.
Easy Baked Fish with Tomatoes, Olives, and Capers
This fish with tomatoes, olives, and capers comes together quickly and is full of bright Mediterranean flavors.
Brown Butter Pecan Cookies (Melt-in-Your-Mouth Style)
Crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth brown butter pecan shortbread cookies that smell heavenly, topped with flaky salt . . .
Healthy Dark Chocolate Pudding
This healthy dark chocolate pudding is incredibly rich and decadent, despite containing lots of nutrients and no added refined sugars.
Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cakes with Salted Brown Butter Maple Icing
These pumpkin cakes are moist, delicious, easy to make. The salted brown butter maple icing is highly addictive! So my daughter started school, and one of the fun things that parents get to do is volunteer to bring in various treats (or napkins, tablecloths, toys, etc.). Obviously, I was going to do the treats! I
Honeynut Squash Pie
This honeynut squash pie is the light custardy cousin of pumpkin pie . . . plus, it is made with fresh cream and no refined sugars! You may end up abandoning your sweet old pumpkin pie for her hot new honeynut cousin.
Pumpkin Gingerbread Muffins
These delicious pumpkin gingerbread muffins are made with dates, honey, and loads of spices . . . A Healthier Pumpkin Muffin Option Sometimes, on a very cold morning in fall, nothing is more comforting than warm gingerbread. But typical gingerbread is essentially cake. So I wanted to see if I could make a gingerbread that
Buttermilk Cornbread Pancakes
This recipe makes a fluffy, delicately crispy, and comforting cornbread pancake. My ideal pre-Thanksgiving pancake (but we also eat them in summer with fresh peaches, whipped ricotta, and maple syrup!)
Career and Family by Claudia Goldin
The book discusses the challenges modern women face in the career market, the historical ways women have tackled these challenges, and the root causes of the wage gap. (In brief, women tend to have more responsibilities at home.)
I appreciated that this book focused on the practical realities of what happens to parents’ working lives once they have kids. It doesn’t point fingers or blame anyone. Rather, it explains that couples are rational actors making choices based on the options in front of them. The book also describes characteristics of careers that are more likely to enable (and less likely to penalize) a good family-career balance.
Orange Fennel Chicken Breakfast Sausages
These orange fennel chicken breakfast sausages are sweetened with chopped dates and caramelized fennel and flavored with a hint of orange and nutmeg.
Skillet Chicken & Gnocchi with Caramelized Fennel, Onion, and Apple
This skillet chicken and gnocchi with caramelized fennel, onion, and apple cooked in chicken drippings makes a perfect fall one-pot dinner . . . It’s also super simple. You basically throw everything together in a cast iron skillet and roast it for about an hour. You’re left with caramelized fennel and onion baked in chicken
Orange-Scented Cranberry and Carrot Muffins
These cranberry and carrot muffins smell like sweet oranges and are filled with pops of tart fresh cranberry . . .
No-Oat Apple Crisp Recipe
If you prefer your apple crisp recipe without oats, here’s my take, you crazy kid . . . An Apple Crisp Recipe Without Oats It has come to my attention that many people prefer their apple crisp without oats. Frankly, at first, this was a little mind-boggling to me. Apple crisp with oats is delicious.
Feeding French: Takeaways from French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Le Billon
Karen Le Billon describes her family’s move to France and explains why French children are so well behaved at restaurants and eat whatever is put on their plates. She sets out ten French food rules, which I reduce to four basic takeaways: (1) A parent’s job is to teach the child to appreciate food; (2) Food is reserved for sit-down social experiences; (3) Everyone eats the same meal; (4) Keep food emotionally neutral (don’t use it as a reward or punishment). I also discuss our own family’s attempts to implement some of these rules, and our struggles.
Ginger Apple Crisp with Vanilla Maple Whipped Cream
Nothing says fall like a ginger apple crisp baked with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and vanilla. . . . Since the start of the fall season, I have been craving a warm apple crisp. Complete with all the warm fall spices: ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla. Apple Crisp is Fairly Healthy Typically this time of
Spicy Baked Apples
These spicy baked apples are delicious served with lightly sweetened whipped cream and make for a healthy dessert . . . Are Baked Apples Dessert? Let’s go with no (even though I’m including it in my dessert section). Apples are one of those treats I didn’t enjoy as much as I ought to have as
Ginger Apple Bran Muffins
If you could put an apple crisp into a muffin, these ginger apple bran muffins would be how . . .These are relatively healthy, super-fiber apple and bran muffins. Because they are made with apple, dates, and bran, they are packed with nutrients and natural sweetness (no refined sugars in the recipe!), making them both hearty and satisfying. The only sweeteners are the natural fruits, plus honey and molasses.
Whole Chicken Roasted in Maple Rosemary Butter
Just in time for fall, this roasted chicken with maple rosemary butter makes our whole house smell amazing . . . Why a Roasted Maple Chicken I started looking for more roasted chicken recipes recently. We had been doing lots of chicken thighs (which are completely delicious and are nearly impossible to overcook despite my
When Your Toddler Won’t Eat Dinner – Food Takeaways from Cribsheet by Emily Oster
Sometimes it feels like no matter what you try, your toddler won’t eat dinner . . . Below is an in-depth review of toddler food strategies that Emily Oster discusses in her book Cribsheet.
Lemony Wild Rice with Saffron and Fresh Tomatoes
This lemony wild rice with tomatoes is easy to make ahead of time and keeps well so that you can enjoy it again and again throughout the week . . . With everyone in our household adjusting to an earlier schedule now that school’s back in session, I’ve been turning to some of my “old