Modern home cooking – from scratch
by Heather Harris Brady It may be a lot sunnier where you are but here after the holidays come the long, gray days of January. To brighten things I like to try new, fun things - especially where dessert is concerned. I made these to surprise my daughter one night at dinner, and she had... Continue Reading →
by Heather Harris Brady This was the official "last day of school" breakfast in our house this morning. I know. Unhinged. Sorry about the photo, this how things look to me early in the morning. Bleak. Years ago, after a new house, new school, and lots of changes it seemed like we needed some way... Continue Reading →
by Heather Harris Brady We just finished a spot of traveling recently and this was one of the best things I ate the whole time. As soon as I got home I set out to recreate it so I could share it with you. This recipe is based on a dessert from Hello Betty in... Continue Reading →
by Heather Harris Brady Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday for lots of reasons, including the fact that there are so many pumpkin flavored desserts! I especially love pumpkin ice cream, and since I can't live with just having it during the fall I decided to come up with my own recipe. Pumpkin Ice Cream, Makes... Continue Reading →
by Heather Harris Brady These are the Gossip Girls of the cookie world, thin, fabulous and extremely rich. The outside is a nicely crisp, hiding a brownlike interior loaded with chopped Andes Mints. Giant chocolate cookies are ruling my Pinterest right now, but if I'm going to the trouble of making cookies I darn well... Continue Reading →
by Heather Harris-Brady Besides the tart cherry crop coming in, signs are up all over the area for fresh sweet black cherries. So I was thinking about ways to use them when I got a yen for cheesecake. But it was too hot for a dessert that heavy (and I had just splurged on an... Continue Reading →
This recipe is a little bit of kitchen serendipity. I was developing a recipe for a contest sponsored by Scharffenberger that included a number of exotic ingredients. I got distracted and didn't notice that my adzuki beans were al dente as opposed to soft and mashable. I continued on, covered them in chocolate, chopped them... Continue Reading →
It was a lot of fun to research this post. I went through numerous old White House menus from several centuries and I re-read my two White House cookbooks from the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. A common theme emerged. Ever since Thomas Jefferson brought back the method for making ice cream from France, it has... Continue Reading →
Okay, so it’s really peach crisp. But sometimes I have a yen for the cool old recipe names. I mean, what would you rather whip up – blueberry coffee cake or blueberry boy bait? I can vouch for the fact that this WILL draw men of all ages so use it wisely. I made a... Continue Reading →
