Category: Kathleen’s Blog

As most of our readers know, Rose and I wrote a book about afternoon tea, Sharing Tea: The Road Back to Civilization. Writing this book

 Please allow me to go on about the autumnal photograph above. It contains many of my favorite elements. Front and center, there is a

 Red Velvet Cake with Buttery Cream Cheese Frosting Come autumn, I always have a little flirtation with the delicately scented, shapely pear. In the

 Nonna’s Checca di Parma (Or Italian Apple Nut Cake) In looking through her baking supplies, Suzi found her mother’s cookie press and in the

Above: my Happy Valley, California yard is the perfect climate for lilacs, getting cold enough to set good blooms. My wall of five bushes has

  Fortunate are we in the United States who get decent oranges, lemons, and limes all year round, in every grocery store. We can be

  Heart-Shaped Cakes & Fireside Tea Pictorial & More Soup ​Ah, the sweetness…and then some more soup. Gourmet Magazine’s Minestrone Soup with Suggested Fixes by

    Team Sweet (Suzi and I) madly bake our way through the December holiday season each year, but there is still dinner to be

  ​It is finally December! We winter folk are now able to wear our hats and sweaters, scarves and gloves and breathe the cold air,

  Historically, November has been a pie month, for which we are VERY grateful. It’s just that our friend, cake, unless it is a pumpkin