by Esther | May 14, 2013 | Desserts
In my family we grew up eating Lucy’s Grandmother’s Cheesecake. I do, vaguely, know Lucy, but definitely not her grandmother – it was just that this recipe was so good that it got passed from her grandmother to her to my parents and now to you...
by Esther | Dec 31, 2012 | Desserts, Recipes
OR: The Easiest Cookies in the World I happened to have red velvet cake mix. I was going to a Redskins-Cowboys game watching party. I realized red velvet was SO the right color for a Redskins game. But I wanted to make red velvet cookies out of the cake mix because...
by Esther | Dec 17, 2012 | Desserts, Holidays, Recipes
Looking for a fun new holiday cookie? I think these will fit the bill! Of course, they will be delicious any other time of year too, but the butterscotchy, gingery, white chocolatey-ness gives them that warm and cozy feeling perfect for the holidays. Credit for the...
by Esther | Oct 8, 2012 | Ingredients
I think the last thing I gave up as a vegan was eggs – and not uncoincidentally, the hardest frontier for me as a vegan chef was baking. So many ingredients needed for baking are not vegan, and I just couldn’t wrap my head around baking without them....
by Esther | Oct 2, 2011 | Desserts, Recipes
Ladies and Gentlemen, I’ve discovered the secret to veganizing cookies. Crisco! Crisco. It’s so simple. How did I not figure this out before? Maybe others in the world out there had already figured this out, but somehow it had escaped me. Every vegan...
