Gingerbread is one of my favorite flavors and a great place to begin my seasonal baking. I love the combination of spices here, including sweet cardamom, spicy pepper, warm ancho chile and rich cocoa powder. A slice of this deliciously spiced bread with a cup of coffee or warm apple cider is a wonderful way to stave off the chill of the season.
The flavor of Kale and Potato Soup with Sausage is surprisingly, even intriguingly, deep and vibrant. It has the perfect amount of warmth to satisfy my taste buds and soothe my soul on a cool autumn evening. Serve it with Sourdough Cracker Leaves or a crusty loaf of bread.
The addition of mature sourdough starter to these flatbread crackers adds an element of soul. There is an attractive artisanal quality to the large irregular cracker leaves, browned to a golden hue on the edges, flecked with choice bits of herb, cheese, seeds or salt on its surface.
I love a good salad. In fact salads are the backbone of my summer (and often autumn, winter and spring) menus. They can be made ahead and at times even improve with advance preparation, leaving me free near dinner time to focus on other parts of the meal or on other things […]
Aside from the sauce, there are only two ingredients in this recipe, peaches and pie dough. You can hardly beat that for simplicity. And if that’s not enough to convince you to give it a try, the first line of the recipe takes the simplicity even further when it tells us “Do not peel peaches or remove seeds.”…
