Month: January 2020

Pear-Pumpkin Spice Cake

Pear + Pumpkin Spice Cake This recipe is adapted from my own Honey Pumpkin Cake;  it takes about 15 minutes to make, 45 minutes to bake, and serves 12-14.  It’s not quite vegan, but you can make it so by using flax eggs rather than the eggs mentioned here.  You can use bottled or fresh…

Why Chocolate?

Why Chocolate? I had a wonderful conversation with a local French professor this morning, mainly about the new flow and focus relating to the divine feminine.  Both of us have experienced years of feeling driven, or being judged (internally and externally) for what we do rather than accepted for what we are.  As women, and…

Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake

Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake At my recent New Year’s Eve party, one of our physics grad students Pranav Rao contributed this wonderful gluten-free cake, and very kindly shared the recipe (which he says he picked up from the NY Times, originally devised by Melissa Clark who writes the Good Appetite column). This luscious gluten-free…