St. Patrick's Day

Fine Lime-Green Tea Buttercream for St. Pat’s Day

March 13, 2014 By Nancy Baggett 4 Comments

I just handed out some of these green-tea and lime buttercream-decorated cookies at a lively, information-packed DC Les Dames d'Escoffier symposium last ...

Irish Soda Bread–A Homespun Slice of Life

March 12, 2010 By Nancy Baggett 8 Comments

I often find that preparing recipes my mother and grandmother made conjures up fond memories of them. Pulling out a faded, dog-eared recipe for soda bread from ...

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.