As it turns out, chocolate chip cookies make fine company on a Saturday night. This quick and easy recipe produces only 20-25 cookies.

A coffee pot of tea. And a recipe for quick and easy 8-minute granola. An everyday breakfast at its best.

Lemon Curd Layer Cake – with a particularly delightful lemon cream frosting.

Lemony Pasta with Morels and Peas. This simple recipe highlights the magnificent morel mushroom. A must-try before the season passes.

This recipe was inspired by the Cleveland cake that Mario Batali calls “the best cassata I have tried in the USA.”

Lemon butter cupcakes. The buttery richness and light lemon tang are perfect foils in this cake.

No baking required. Simply melt, stir, pour, and chill. These chery almond chocolate chunkies are show stoppers. And they’re vegan!

The dough for these chocolate raspberry rugelach is a dream to work with. Hot out of the oven, they are eminently swoon-worthy.

These smooth – not gloppy! – sesame noodles are worth fighting over.

Corn cherry scones that almost decided my fate. This recipe is from Berkeley’s famous Cheeseboard Collective.

Two failed marriages and one perfect union brought me and these delicious toffee squares together.

Cinnamon ice cream!

A bowl of vanilla-cherry oatmeal brings a weekend with a dear childhood friend to a close.

A not-too-sweet apple tart that’s simple to throw together.

Strawberry Galette with Cointreau whipped cream. What to do if you find yourself with a flat of not-yet-in-season berries.

On a day like today, it’s not a bad idea to take things bean by bean.

I never thought I’d say this: The best thing I ate this week came from a can!

A not-too-sweet scone that’s sure to please.