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Too Pretty to Eat (Almost) Nasturtium Salad with Nasturtium Vinaigrette

August 23, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 18 Comments

I’m pleased to tell you I just ate this nasturtium salad for lunch. (It was dressed with a homemade nasturtium vinaigrette.) Yes, it was almost, but not quite, ...

Too Many Tomatoes? Make Easy Tomato-Peach Chutney

August 14, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 7 Comments

I didn't actually plan to make tomato-peach chutney! It all started when I spied this large basket of shiny, ...

Waging War on Wordiness: Tips for Writing More Powerful Prose

August 7, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 13 Comments

I’m just back from teaching two 30-minute “Writing Lab” how-to sessions at the BlogHer-2012 conference in New York City. About 5,000 bloggers (mostly women) who ...

Welcome to KitchenLane! It’s a comfortable place where I create, thoroughly test, and photograph recipes for my cookbooks and blog. All my recipes are original, not adaptations from others. I trained as a pastry chef, so many offerings are desserts and baked goods. Some are also healthful, savory dishes I contribute to healthy eating publications. My recipes are always free of artificial dyes, flavorings, and other iffy additives, which I won’t serve my family—or you! Instead, dishes feature naturally flavorful, colorful ingredients including fresh herbs, berries, edible flowers, and fruits, many from my own suburban garden or local farmers’ markets. Since lots of readers aspire to write cookbooks, I also blog on recipe writing and editing and other helpful publishing how-to info accumulated while authoring nearly 20 well-received cookbooks over many years.