February 18, 2011 
Joan 
While more luxurious showstopping desserts may spring to mind when you think of Wolfgang Puck’s Spago restaurant empire, it’s the simple muffin recipes that keep the Spago Desserts, cookbook on my kitchen shelf. Banana Muffins and Blueberry Muffins are particularly good.
Category Archives: Great Books
A Good Day for Chocolate
Valentine’s Day does seem like such a silly holiday. So commercial. So … pink. But I try to celebrate it for the silliness it is. The only thing I take seriously about it—besides making sure Max has enough cards for
Cooking with Winnie-the-Pooh
The first page is inscribed in a familiar hand: “To Bonnie. with Love. Christmas 1969. from Great Grandma Mitchelmore.” The Pooh Cook Book delighted me as a child. It was my second cook book and received on my eighth Christmas from Ada, an
Ode to Scones
Oh, how I adore scones! Not the cakey ones that make you think of muffins, but the flaky ones that make you think of a really good biscuit. It may be this craving is in my genes and due to
Cookies of Good Fortune
China Moon Cookbook's recipes recreate the vibrant East-meets-West cuisine served at Barbara Tropp's innovative China Moon Cafe in San Francisco in the 1990s. Baking China Moon's "Cookies of Good Fortune" is an annual tradition—so easy, so delicious, they've been
Less Fruity Fruitcake
Fruitcake. Although much maligned, I love these holiday loaves. I know I may be ostracized from this, our 21st century American society, for saying so. But I just can’t help it. Molasses being one of my favorite baking ingredients, I
