Marble Molasses Pound Cake...
Posted by Ari in Desserts on 08 26th, 2007 | 31 Comments
When I was a child tagging along with my mom to the local bakery, I always marveled at the multi-colored slices of marble cake sitting behind the display window. How, I wondered, did the baker make a loaf that was both chocolate and vanilla? What prevented the batters from mixing together? Having a...
Homemade Poppy Seed Bagels...
As many a foodblogger will tell you, blogging about food ain’t easy. Behind the scenes of every published post lie a slew of preparatory stages, from selecting a recipe, to making the dish, to photographing it. Things get even more complex if you’re adapting said recipe or, better yet, creating...
Strawberry Bread for the Masses...
Work has been a flurry of meetings, ringing phones and flashing keyboards lately, so I decided to lighten things up with miniature loaves of strawberry bread. Topped with sliced almonds and flavored with mashed strawberries and almond extract, a slice of this pretty bread makes a tasty coffee companion....
Spiced Sugar Coins Bring Marital Bliss...
I generally don’t buy into all that “men are from mars, women are from venus” mumbo jumbo, but there are times when I think there are vast differences between the sexes. Remembering uncommonly detailed bits of conversation is one example. For as long as I’ve known my husband...
Watermelon Strawberry Sorbet...
For weeks I’ve been waiting to post this recipe for watermelon-strawberry sorbet, which I developed for C&H Sugar as part of their summer newsletter about food blogs. They asked me to wait until the newsletter was published and as of yesterday morning it’s online! So here is the recipe...
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
