I’m a sucker for red velvet cake. I can’t fully explain why. It’s really just a mild chocolate with a ton of red food coloring, but it’s so festive and beautiful, and it always comes with cheesecake icing. I know I’m not alone. Bakeries always seem to have red velvet cupcakes, red velvet doughnuts,…
Carrot Halwa: Sweet Indian Carrot Pudding
Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights, was celebrated last month. Diwali is a five-day harvest festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil – the transcendent inner light overcoming the darkness of ignorance to bring joy and peace. And sweets. Arne and I are not Hindu, but I love harvest festivals and winter celebrations…
Eating ABQ: Supper Truck at Hyder Park
It’s no secret that I love food trucks, and have been excited to sample their fare in Portland and New York. But possibly my best food-truck experience ever happened Tuesday night, right here in Albuquerque. I have to thank my friend and neighbor Mary. A few weeks ago, she rode by on her adorable flowered…
Eating ABQ: Mean Bao
UPDATE: Mean Bao is now closed. One balmy evening a few weeks ago, Arne and I were walking down Central in Nob Hill when a curious sight met our eyes. In the window of the recently vacated Ecco Gelato space was a sign with a cartoonishly irritated white blob – maybe a marshmallow? a…
No-Sugar-Added GF Banana-Oatmeal Cookies
I didn’t really think I was going to like these cookies. The first time I saw them was at the blog Lick the Bowl Good, as a “you might also like” at the bottom of a recipe for homemade oatmeal cream pies. The author said she’d made them for a little boy she cared…
Honeyed Blue Cheese Terrine with Dried Fruit
I don’t watch as much food television as you might imagine. I still enjoy Nigella Lawson; her unabashed – nay, wanton – love of food always delights me. Her show was pioneering in its stylishness (you may recall that she originally aired on Style, not any food network), with artsy shifts in focus and food…
Cereal Milk Panna Cotta with Cornflake Crunch
Last week I picked up a cookbook from the library: The Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook by Christina Tosi. I read it cover to cover, in one sitting, like an irresistible novel. Tosi, the chef at Milk Bar – the bakery and sweets outpost of David Chang’s Momofuku brand of restaurants – is a lot of fun. Her…
Fluffy Biscuit-Topped Blueberry Cobbler with Pear
I didn’t really grow up with dessert. Not that my family never made sweets; the heirloom box of Grandma’s recipes is practically nothing but sweets, written in an endearing yet frustrating shorthand style with helpful instructions like “Mix. Bake.” But we certainly didn’t have dessert every night, and when cakes and cookies and butterscotch haystacks…
Holiday Gingerbread with Raisins and Pears
I’m sorry I’ve been gone so long! My computer totally flaked out on me. And now that I’m back (with a brand-new computer!), I feel like I’m kind of cheating. Because this recipe is simply a variation on my beloved Elsie’s Gingerbread, which I posted back in February 2010. But I came up with this variant…
Cranberry Apple Gingersnap Crisp
A few weeks ago, Smitten Kitchen (by far my favorite food blog – go check it out!) posted a recipe that sounded so good I could hardly stand it: Pear, Cranberry and Gingersnap Crumble. My mouth watered just thinking about it, even more so looking at Deb Perelman’s beautiful pictures. I had to have it right…