Chocolate spice cake cookies
Right around the time I stopped eating meat as a teenager, I spent a summer working at a local wildlife care clinic. If squeamishness about meat had played any role in my decision to become vegetarian, that would have been the shortest internship ever. Without going into detail, let’s just say that the recipes for […]
Adieu to 2011
This year has seen some changes at Emperor’s Crumbs; in our first full year in California, we have been posting more recipes that reflect what we eat day-to-day, not only the classics from Central Europe. I do wish we had time to post more recipes overall – one of my resolutions for 2012, definitely! As […]
A pasta collage with spinach, chickpeas and breadcrumbs
Whether you went to preschool, ovoda or skolka, I bet you probably made some kind of artwork involving beans and bits of macaroni and a lot of glue. It’s a childhood classic! The pasta collage I present to you here is a classic too, in that I have stolen great ideas from far and wide, […]
A post fat and happy and full of links
Across the United States, people are just now coming down from the turkey and pie high known as Thanksgiving.
Banana bread (not the kind you’re thinking of)
When I hear “banana bread”, what comes to mind is the bake-sale staple, a quick bread that is more like a cake, really. So when I was at the library a couple of weeks ago and thumbing through a Jamie Oliver cookbook while the kids selected their easy readers, I was intrigued by a recipe […]