Make Eggnog Now for Holiday Entertaining

For years Fanny Farmer’s recipe for eggnog stood as the Christmas and New Year’s classic at my house, a wonderful recipe and very spirited. After a conversation with Sarah Walker Caron, my editor here at the BDN, who suggested I offer an eggnog recipe this month, I looked around to see what new wrinkles there […]

A Glorious Apple Cake

It is Wednesday and tomorrow is the big annual Thanksgiving Feast for which I expect many of you are too busy cooking to even read this column. So when your turkey is all carved up and there are only fragments of pie left, but you still have holiday guests poking around looking for a bit […]

Sweet and Spicy Green Tomato Pie

Years and years ago, my friend Susie Hutchins in Worcester, Massachusetts, made green tomato pie which I recall enjoying very much. Susie’s gone now and though I think I got the recipe from her, alas, it is now amongst the missing. Just in the nick of green tomato time, however, along comes Fred Hartman in […]