Crisp, cobbler or crumble? The Spiced Whole Wheat Crumble Topping has a little less sugar than the others; whole wheat flour gives it an earthy quality that complements the sweet apple filling. The simple Snickerdoodle Cobbler Topping is based on the Any/All Fruit Crisp in “Life at the Dumpling,” a handbook for a homemade life written and illustrated by Trisha …
October heralds the beginning of pumpkin season. Pumpkins have come a long way since then, as Indigenous American communities carefully adapted the wild pumpkin into successively bigger and better-tasting varieties. She wrote that Indigenous communities ate pumpkins in soups, roasted them on embers, made them into sauces and baked them into a "bread". Pumpkins and squash were commonly grown and …
Overnight, it seems that L.A.’s thick summer heat has receded to a pleasant breeze, with brittle leaves cluttering the sidewalks and the sun rising later each morning, as if it were too cozy to come out from under the covers. It’s a little early to start carving jack-o’-lanterns, but these six recipes, including a pumpkin seed horchata, a creamy pumpkin …
Each year, I spend months as part of my job trying to develop new home cooking ideas to inspire our readers for Thanksgiving. But it’s still a worthwhile endeavor if it means just one person decides to make a new idea part of their holiday table, possibly even setting aside a cherished family recipe for one of ours. So this …