Foodier Than Thou

This week I tried a new recipe for chocolate pudding by Melissa Clark that was featured in the New York Times. The recipe I worked out earli...

Rich, creamy, home-made chocolate pudding. Yay! What could be yummier? I love the recipe in the Gourmet Cookbook; it whips up in no ti...

Even after I have created a new recipe and found it delicious, I continue to tweak it; I work on lowering the carbohydrates and raising ...

SUGAR-FREE PEACH/APRICOT CAKE The finished product - golden brown and luscious Is this a cake, a tart, a pie.....? Call it what you ...

Plum Tree at our Community Garden  It's early July, and plums are dropping like sticky rain all over Berkeley. From the tiny ...

I never laid eyes on a fresh apricot until I moved to California.  For a special treat, we might crack open a can of apricots in heavy s...

Oops - we ate half of it before I remembered to photograph it! So I was reading Sunset Magazine while on the cross-trainer at the Y wh...

Caramel Breakfast Cheesecake Some months back, I posted a recipe for breakfast cheesecake , featuring orange or lemon zest.  Yum. Well, ...

Sugar-Free, Low-Carb Granola As with so many of my low-carb creations, this new recipe was born one day when I was thinking wistfully ...

I grew a nice big crop of butternut squash last year. Unfortunately, the seedlings got such a late start that by the time the squashes wer...

Almond Butter Thumbprint Cookies  In my family, marzipan (almond paste candy) is considered one of the yummiest treats possible,  so my...

Just in case you need to be sugar-free AND gluten-free, here is a recipe that is sure to please.  It will surely please you, the sadly depri...

Double Chocolate Super-Rich Utterly Delicious (Sugar-Free, High Protein!) Brownies  I have yet to meet anyone who dislikes brownies.  Ch...

Tasty Burger with Sugar-Free Chipotle Ketchup and a dollop of mayo As our daughter squirted a nice big blob of ketchup on her hamburger...

Sugar-Free Fig Jam with Low-Carb Bread Perhaps you are wondering; does this woman know that she's spoiled rotten? The answer is wh...

Low-Carb Bread with Sugar-Free Strawberry Jam  My basement is filled with glistening rows of jam now; sugar-free strawberry, sugar-free...