The Flexitarian Cook

A few years ago, I found a recipe for a blueberry coffee cake on Chocolate & Zucchini that I absolutely loved. For a long time, it was my son Adam’s request for his birthday, and it was always perfect. However, this is the thing about perfection: it doesn’t last forever. A little reinvention is what’s [...]

A quick post, for a quick, classically Italian tomato and bread salad. The inspiration came from an America’s Test Kitchen show on PBS that I caught while on vacation in Cape Cod one slow morning. I just had to make it. It captures summer perfectly, in my view.   Panzanella Keep in mind that this [...]

I’ve said before that I am not a baker. Give me any kind of soup, or savory sauce, or vegetable concoction, and I am happy and comfortable making those. Cookies and cakes, however, I find more challenging. So why is it that I’ve found myself baking tarts, cakes and cookies so often lately, when, on [...]