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Bake chocolate-covered mint cookies. Photo courtesy Chocolat Céleste. We’re a week late in celebrating the 98th anniversary of the Girl Scouts, founded March 12, 1912. But there’s no reason to skip the celebration. And there’s no better way to celebrate than with homemade Thin Mint cookies. We love the Girl Scouts—we won the top award…
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Poires Belle Hélène, shown without the ice cream. Photo by Teresa Kasprzycka | Dreamstime. If you’ve never had Pears Hélène (more properly called Poire Belle Hélène), today’s the day: National Pears Helene Day. The dessert owes its origin to the opera La belle Hélène by composer Jacques Offenbach. It’s a comedic take on the…
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Irish soda bread is irresistible any time. But St. Patrick’s Day provides an extra excuse to bake up a batch and treat family and friends. Soda bread is a chemically-leavened quick bread* made with baking soda instead of yeast, which produces a lighter, airy crumb. Irish soda bread dates back to approximately 1840, when bicarbonate…
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What should you bake/make for St. Patrick’s Day? Irish Coffee Cheesecake Green-Chip Chocolate Chip Cookies Your favorite rolled cookie recipe with a shamrock cookie cutter and green-and-white icing S’mores with green marshmallows Silver Moon’s Praline Irish Cream ice cream Irish Cream Icing for your favorite brownies or loaf cake: Take 1/3 cup Irish cream liqueur…
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As lavender is to Provence, thyme is to Greece. The herb is native to the Mediterranean. There are almost 100 species of thyme, which can range in color from deep green to gray and golden-green (look for golden lemon thyme). It’s a very aromatic herb—so much so that it lures honeybees (in ancient Greece, thyme…
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