Baked Pork Chops with Potatoes and Thyme

Berry Surprise Cake

My Favorite Chili

Savory Corn and Pepper Muffins baked as mini madeleines

Angel Food Cake

Canard aux Navets (Roast Duck with Glazed Turnips)

French Pear Tart

French Yule Log (Bûche de Noël)

Real Butterscotch Pudding

Gingerbread Cookie Cups—instead of dipping your cookie in milk, you can pour some milk into your cookie!

Santa and Snowman Milkshakes – made by kids for kids

Buttery Jam Cookies

Peanut Butter Bars: two versions and two recipes

Brownies and Candy Canes

Grandma’s All-Occasion Sugar Cookies

White Chocolate Cranberry Coconut Bark

Oeufs Mollets Florentine (Soft-boiled Eggs with Spinach and Mornay Sauce): one of the dishes that caused Julia Child to fail Le Cordon Bleu

Streusel Coffee Cake with Cherries

Scalloped Potatoes (Gratin Dauphinois) – and how not to burn milk

Arborio Rice Pudding – plus results of rice pudding made with Basmati, sushi and converted rice

Pecan Pancakes

Tall Non-Fat Latté with “Toast Dope”