For three generations, this Festive Cranberry Whip – a whipped cream dessert has graced our family’s holiday tables. It’s been updated with less sugar and more fresh fruit! My grandmother, my mother and I love to try new recipes; mixing up a new dish or dessert with traditional foods is the way we celebrate holidays. …
One of my favorite baking challenges is to thumb through my collection of community cookbooks until I find a recipe I’ve never before seen or tasted. There are never descriptive photographs in these books. Upping the ante even more, all ingredient lists and instructions are of course written in the home cook’s (often less-than-complete) hand …
Disclaimer: this post is full of calorie-laden goodness and this dietitian thinks that’s just fine. It’s the time of year that panettones are hanging. Walk into any Italian market or shop, look up and you’ll see the pretty, colored boxes attached from the ceiling. Panettones or Italian Christmas cakes are sweet brioche-type breads originating from Milan and …