Adapted from Cook's Illustrated, May-June 1998. I use red wine or white wine or rosé with this recipe. It produces delicious sangria every time. Sangria is forgiving--you can substitute a lime for the lemon. You can substitute another liqueur for the Triple Sec--I recently … [Read more...]
Superfood Chocolate Chip Cookies
I thought I knew a lot about breastfeeding. While visiting Caroline in the summer of 2016 I found a bag of "Lactation Cookies" that she had ordered from Amazon.com on her kitchen counter. I didn't even know lactation cookies were a thing. I stole one of Caroline's cookies and … [Read more...]
Dick’s Field Hockey Chocolate Chip Cookies
During Caroline's field hockey years at Duke, every game was followed by a lavish tailgate. The team parents brought the food to Durham or to such faraway places as Norfolk or Boston. Dick was the darling of the field hockey girls because he always brought … [Read more...]
15-Grain Breakfast Bread
Adapted from the Multigrain Bread recipe in Cook's Illustrated, March-April 2006. Special thanks for the idea of flax seeds to Peter Reinhart, from Roasted Three-Seed Bread in Brother Juniper's Bread Book (1991). In 1991 Peter was still a Brother of Christ the … [Read more...]
Rosemary Foccacia
Adapted from Cook's Illustrated, May 1997. This is the bread that inspired 5-year-old Rob’s sensible question, “Why does Granny put Christmas trees on her bread?” Chris and I discovered foccacia during our first week in San Francisco in 1992 at L'Osteria del Forno (closed in … [Read more...]