Banoffee bonds banana cream pie and toffee
Vacation beckons; time to pack the swimsuit and beach novel into the portmanteau. The two-part suitcase once carried cloaks, as its name suggests. Now it carries two words smashed together....
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Fruity and fizzy form a favorite summer cocktail
Cocktails confuse me. Not the concept: A two- (or more) ingredient drink. Nor the intended effect: Quench. It's the ordering that does me in. Cocktails never suffer the profusion of...
Hope sprouts in a corner of Baltimore
Spring came late to Baltimore, not green this year, but red. There were flashes of anger, flashes of fire, flash floods of shouting in the streets. I stayed in and...
Homemade spring rolls wrapped up with memories
Aunt Ruth always lived an easy walk to Chinese carryout. It was one of her rules. She always had a dog, generally a small, curly sort with good manners. She...
A shot of gazpacho will cure what ails you
The playground bully hates his victim's guts. The fisherman guts his prey. The soldier guts it out. Strong stuff. It takes guts to deploy the word guts. Now guts is...
‘Chopped’ at home reveals kitchen surprise
I cook because the people I live with cannot. Toast or coffee: occasionally. Actual meal? Never. So when Hannah suggested we play "Chopped," we were all amused. I served as...
Three sisters go together in garden and in salad bowl
Corn spends the summer standing stock-still, chatting up the other stalks. Not that there's much to say. Sun: hot. Water: welcome. Cobs: coming along. Monoculture is monotonous. Which explains companion...
Natural dyes for Easter eggs from fresh vegetables, spices
The chickens were on strike. They crossed their drumsticks and clucked: Nope. Perhaps it was wages, hours or conditions. Perhaps it was solidarity with their fellow food-service workers. Can't say....
Tuna burger with wasabi mayo makes great alternative
The hamburger lacks ham, having been named, perhaps, in honor of the place — Hamburg — not the meat. Leaving the turkey burger (made of ground turkey), cheeseburger (not made...
Hail cabbage, that less-fashionable kale cousin
Zeus was flummoxed: One prophecy predicted this, one predicted that. The god broke out in a cold sweat, which rolled down his body, dropped to the ground and sprung up...