FOOD

Sure, everyone says they have the most delicious banana bread recipe. This recipe not only tastes good, it also looks amazing AND it only uses one bowl to prepare. Redbook Magazine declared it the Best Banana Bread Recipe in all the land. 

A variation on a recipe from my second cookbook, Sweet and Vicious: Baking With Attitude (Rizzoli). A never fail cake recipe that will work with any fruit...like any fruit! Change up the spices to make it your own. In this recipe, I swapped out the cinnamon for ground cardamom and a heavy pinch of black pepper. Serving with vanilla ice cream is not optional.

The tang of the grilled green tomatoes will forever change your mind on what makes the perfect BLT.

Chocolate cake layers drenched in a brown sugar Cabernet syrup. There's no need to frost the sides because this cake color is beautiful naked.