

Coconut Cake
Last February, I received a call from Hampton that had me reaching for the arm of a chair. She had played Gah to my Elphie for three...


Madeleines
Every year, Jody Mattison has a cookie swap for her friends and co-workers like me. Bringing six dozen means coming home with about 40...


Almond Cherry Crisp
One of the welcome challenges of my cooking repertoire in the past year has been finding and making gluten-free recipes. Michelle Supko...


Grasshopper Pie
I remember the first day I saw each of their faces. Eclare was an 8th grader on my McLean lacrosse team and came up to me asking if she...


Swiss Plum Tart
I watched Uncle Craig, Economics Ph.D. and Le Cordon Bleu graduate, whip this together one night in Summit, NJ on a whim simply to use up...


Homemade Pasta
Although I made homemade pasta in Chicago with Will, I figured I would never be so inclined as to buy my own pasta machine and make my...


Sunny's Creamed Onions
Sunny and Nana took this recipe to the Big House one year for Christmas, but it was the next day when we spread them over hamburgers that...


Wallace Pasta
This isn’t so much a recipe as it is a tribute. By the time I lived with the boys on Cherokee Road, Sallie Wallace and I had spent hours...


Better than Baltusrol Mashed Potatoes
If I have one vivid memory of helping with dinner as a child, it is always peeling the potatoes. One night, Dad and MaryEllen came...


Kitty's Squash Casserole
There might be a protest if we all arrived to Thanksgiving or Christmas at the farm, and there wasn’t Kitty’s Squash Casserole. Kitty was...