With no shortage of excellent additions to coffee, one has to really stand out to earn a spot in your pantry. And yet, this ...

Easy Strawberry Syrup is one of those simple from-scratch recipes that instantly makes every day dishes feel special. Made ...

My prolific peppermint forest is once again producing a bumper crop, fueling a flood of ideas for creative uses for the refreshing herb. One of my favorite things to do with mint is to stir up a mint ...

I’m a recipe writer but also a realist. Does everything need to be made from scratch at home? Of course not. As Our Queen Ina (Garten) is famous for saying, “store-bought is fine.” I’d go a step ...

Butterscotch may not be a dessert syrup that you have ever sampled because it's often overshadowed by caramel. The key difference that sets butterscotch apart is that it's made with dark brown sugar ...

There still may be a few chunks of ice on the lake, but this year's maple yield has already been simmered into syrup. Finally, our first taste of spring. Because sap is collected over several weeks ...

A few weeks ago I took a trip to southern Indiana for the National Maple Syrup Festival. I was asked to judge a recipe contest for savory dishes that used maple syrup as a key ingredient and I saw the ...

Greece is known around the world for its delicious cuisine, and Greek desserts like baklava and loukoumades are no exception.

The chartreuse leaves of the birch tree are one of the first signs of spring in Southcentral Alaska. But for a few weeks before the leaves unfurl the trees offer a sweet treat –a watery liquid that ...

For me, it started this summer, when I was flipping through the 1961 edition of The New York Times Cookbook. Pears were in peak season, and I had just bought half a dozen from my neighborhood fruit ...