Ariel's restaurant

Ariel’s Restaurant–A Gem Tucked in the Vermont Countryside

June 4, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 3 Comments

If you are an avid restaurant goer, you know that once in a while the planets and stars come into perfect alignment and the culinary gods bestow upon you a ...

Seeded Irish Soda Bread (& Not Just for St. Patrick’s Day)

March 12, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 4 Comments

Thank you, thank you to the enthusiastic Irish-Americans who decided to turn St. Patrick’s Day into such a huge annual food fest and bash. Yes, the custom of ...

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.