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Marlow is the best dessert you’ve never heard of — a creamy, warm-weather treat with melted marshmallows, milk and whipped cream.

Frozen marshmallow dessert Marlow is the bee’s knees

May 22, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

I had a little extra time on my hands recently when I was holed up at home with a terrible cold. I did a lot of reading to distract myself, but man (or in this case, woman) cannot live by books alone. We also need the internet. As I was… Read story

Cauliflower Cheese is a classic British dish made, unsurprisingly, with cauliflower and cheese.

Take it cheesy: Cauliflower Cheese lives up to its name

May 15, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

Cauliflower is the real workhorse of Vegetable Land. Raw cauliflower has a lovely crunch and a hint of nuttiness and I always go for the cauliflower on a vegetable platter, unless there’s snow peas, because snow peas are obviously better than cauliflower. Cooked cauliflower is so tender and has such… Read story

With no butter, milk or eggs, this crazy mocha cake is extremely OK.

A Depression-era showdown between chocolate buttermilk cake and mocha crazy cake

May 8, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

Last week I was rearranging some things in my kitchen and I came across my great-grandmother Ruth’s recipe for chocolate cake, scribbled on a yellowing index card. My middle name is Ruth, in honor of her. I never had the chance to meet her but I feel a kind of… Read story

With shredded chicken and a whole can of salsa verde, this casserole is a comforting weeknight meal.

Comforting casserole: Classic mom food casserole with tangy salsa verde tastes like home

May 1, 2024, 6:07am Clark County Life

After several weeks of recipe wrecks (meh matzos, cayenne pepper doughnuts and Greek salad wraps that didn’t wrap), I was ready for something that couldn’t fail. I’m talking about the most basic of meals, the tried-and-true, handy-dandy rice-and-chicken casserole. Since Monday is Cinco de Mayo, I thought I’d do something… Read story

These cake doughnuts have cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and vanilla — things that would theoretically make them good.

Can you make your own cake doughnuts at home? Better question: Should you?

April 24, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life

I don’t like doughnuts that much, especially cake doughnuts. I know, I know — I might as well say I don’t like sunshine and money. I mean, I’m not crazy. I have reasons. Cake doughnuts just aren’t that exciting. They’re simply round pieces of cake. And cupcakes? Don’t get me… Read story

These thin, crispy crackers are eaten during the Passover season — but homemade matzos are quite different from what you’d get in a box.

Marvelous matzos: Step outside the box with this homemade recipe

April 17, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

“Matzos are so delicious,” is something you’ve never heard anyone say. Yet people have been eating matzos (also called matzah) or similar unleavened flatbreads for thousands of years. Matzos famously taste of cardboard, a reputation perhaps well-deserved because this cracker-like bread made only of flour, water and sometimes salt. Read story