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Jump straight to the Spiced Lemon Walnut Rosemary Cake recipe or tips. I’ve never understood why the phrase is “easy as pie” as opposed to “easy as cake.” Pie, in my mind, equals not so easy. Getting a crust right is a tricky thing; at least, it can be for me, though at this point…

Jump straight to the Greek Easter Bread recipe or some baking tips. Look, even if you’re intimidated by bread, Greek Easter Bread is crazy easy and crazy delish. I do get that bread can intimidate. There’s the rising, and the fact that yeast is a little temperamental. There’s the kneading, which needs to be done…

Jump to the Moussaka Pastitsio recipe or to the steps. Two big grand dishes of immense comfort, moussaka and pastitsio or basically the same: a kind of Greek lasagna, where spiced ground meat (or lentils, if you want to go vegetarian) is/are layered with either eggplant or pasta, then topped with a fluffy béchamel sauce…

Jump to LCF Update April 2019 watching recos and reading recos. Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, as Dad used to say. If you don’t know the second line of that little poem, it’s “I wonder where the flowers is?” My dad was a drummer, and he loved the rhythm of language. Big news…

Jump right to the Greek Salad recipe or the steps. Salad is the first thing I learned to make well. The story of my cooking education begins haphazardly, and in the event of my first husband, Karl, getting sick. The women in his family took for granted that all women could cook. My ineptitude inspired…