I love pancakes! I can eat them at any time of the day, but I especially love them for breakfast. I’ll eat them at a diner, a fancy restaurant (if they even have them on the menu), or just with the pre-made pancake mix at home. But I never thought I would be serving them […]
Strawberry Peach Rhubarb Dumplings
I found rhubarb in my local kosher market! I finally found it! I’ve been meaning to cook with rhubarb for years but never found it in stock. Okay, so maybe I wasn’t looking too hard, but I just wanted it to be readily available for me. Is that too much to ask?!? I always drooled […]
Nectarine Pickles
Don’t be afraid! I didn’t actually make pickles and nectarines, although I think that sounds kind of good. What you are looking at is a jar of pickled nectarines and they taste incredible. I recommend that you go out as soon as you finish reading this post and buy a bunch of fresh nectarines. That’s […]
Banana Blueberry Streusel Bread
Every week, I buy new bananas for the house because I have two hungry children who love bananas. But sometimes they hang in the corner of my kitchen for a while and don’t get touched…and then they turn brown. Poor bananas! Feeling abandoned and alone, I usually use the overripe fruit for banana cakes, breads […]
Zwetschgenkuchen (Plum Cake)
So what is Zwetschgenkuchen? And how do you pronounce it? I never say it right, but I guess you would say tsvetch-gen-kuchen. If you really can’t say it, just call it a plum cake, or a plum kuchen. Basically, it is the #1 dish that my father-in-law asks me to bake for him when I […]
German-Style Pickled Eggs
I never really thought I would be pickling anything, let alone eggs! But along came an intriguing German-style recipe for pickled eggs from allrecipes.com (one of my favorite recipe sites) as I was searching for deviled egg recipes. They had me at “German”! So I changed directions from deviled to pickled and I’m so glad I did. […]
