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Cooking with Sweet and Wild Woodland Violets

May 10, 2020 By Nancy Baggett Leave a Comment

Every spring my shade garden rewards me with a whole variety of edible violets, some cultivated European types, some indigenous American wild ones. And every ...

Edible Flowers and Herb Blooms –Recipes for Creating Artful, Delectable Food

June 14, 2016 By Nancy Baggett 2 Comments

I believe the ancient adage, "First we eat with our eyes." Which is why I've been garnishing dishes with edible flowers and herb blooms from my garden forever. ...

Fancy Schmancy Cool as a Cucumber Canapés + Tips on Turning Dishes into Party Food

June 24, 2014 By Nancy Baggett 4 Comments

Today, just because I like food to look appetizing, I’m sharing a few super-simple (really!) presentation tricks and techniques we learned in pastry chef ...

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.