This weekend I made Fat-Free Chocolate Orange Cake from one of my favorite cooking blogs, Fat Free Vegan, which has a zillion tested-and-true vegan recipes and gorgeous photographs. (No, I’m not vegan, I just occasionally swing that way.) Fortunately most of her recipes aren’t actually fat-free. This one was, but it sounded so good I […]

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This weirdo plant reverses sour and sweet in your tastebuds for an hour after you eat it — a little reminder from nature that perception is everything.

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This molasses loaf is so rich and flavorful that you only need a tiny slice to satisfy, with a cup of tea or coffee. Now, let me stress: If you don’t like molasses, you won’t like it. Despite cardamom, cinnamon, and ginger all being on the ingredient list — and the fact that the original […]

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As with pumpkin, I get the warm fuzzies when I think about cranberries. But where pumpkin is warm and comforting, cranberries, ruby red and shivery-tart, add exciting zing. (Yes, cranberries are exciting. Time to get out of the house.) It’s hard to get them fresh any other time of the season — same with […]

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My approach to managing
sugar sensitivity is to limit the sweet stuff rather than write it off completely. Occasionally I like to have dessert. By occasionally, I mean frequently.
I’ve found that in baking recipes, you can usually halve the amount of sugar, at least coming from the perspective
of someone who has mostly stripped sweets from their […]

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Another blogger had a slightly more positive reaction to those Spinach Brownies than I did. But I wouldn’t call it a rave.

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When I was in college, I worked at Thai Noodle House. It was a bright, airy one-room restaurant that offered the promise of healthy, fresh noodle bowls, modeled on what you might get on the streets of Bangkok. The cooks seemed determined to deliver Third-world authenticity: I once unknowingly delivered a noodle bowl with the […]

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