Episodes
Cranberry Bread
This is my great-grandmother’s cranberry bread recipe. She was quite the cook, indeed. I’d had these Meyer lemons sitting in my fruit bowl for a couple of weeks, a gift from a friend’s yard. In years past, I’d have already turned them into limoncello or salted and preserved lemons, but this year — specifically the…
Read MoreBeer Beef Stew
Beer Beef Stew Recipe Video – scroll down for recipe card It seems like we ate beer beef stew often growing up. My daddy was a beer-hound (Coors Light to point fingers) but the original recipe came from a woman named Katherine Isbell and I only know this because I found the recipe card in…
Read MoreTastemade Studios Tour (with Nicko’s Kitchen!)
Things have been moving so fast here lately, it’s easy to forget that we were in Santa Monica just 9 days ago for the launch of Tastemade – a new YouTube food channel. While we were there we met up with Rob Nixon of Nicko’s Kitchen and shot this tour of their studios.
Read MoreBlueberry Tart
Fruit tarts and pie are one of my favorite desserts and blueberries are some of my favorite fruits so this blueberry tart pretty much gets an A+ from me. We had the pleasure of visiting Santa Monica, California last week and while we were there, finally got to shoot a video collaboration with charming Chef…
Read MoreHomemade Twinkie Recipe
Instead of crying, try trying this homemade Twinkie recipe! I’m sure you’ve all heard the news by now, and hopefully have had time to mourn, deny, cry, scream, tantrum, and finally shower. Hostess is closing its doors forever. That means no more Twinkies, no more Wonder Bread, no more DingDongs and maybe even the end…
Read MoreTwice Baked Sweet Potatoes
Baked sweet potatoes are great and all, but twice baked?! Yes, ma’am! I was going to just do this recipe a la casserole but something weird has happened to me through making this show and that is that I have begun thinking of food not only as delicious sustenance, but . . . as .…
Read MoreGluten Free Pumpkin Pie
I am so so happy to finally be able to provide for my gluten-free viewers with the help of my friend Kate at hipgirlshome.com! Kate is a specialist in the home arts – things like pickling, preserving, and coming up with neat-o tricks that make life easier around the house. She is the author of…
Read MoreOatmeal Apple Toffee Cookies
This is a variation of one of the cookie recipes in my new Kindle book, Holiday Cookies. I couldn’t decide which I liked better so I just put one in the book and the other on here. Win-win! These oatmeal cookies are soft, chewy, and cake-like and they stay soft and moist for days in…
Read MorePumpkin Pasta Penne
Pumpkin Pasta Recipe Video – scroll down for recipe card I came up with this recipe to serve our friend Diane who graciously and generously offered to edit the newest version of Learn to Cook with her cruelly capable eagle eyes. In true ladylike form, she has also not made me cry at all or…
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