What's better than attending a tea party? Attending a tea party with ginger scones and homemade jam!

If the ingredients for this easy lemon pudding recipe aren't on your shopping list, add them now.

Many of the recipes I now turn to are the ones that can be easily made — and easily frozen. Two of my recent favs are a two-ingredient pumpkin cake that I found in my recipe box and a four-ingredient coconut macaroon that came from my daughter-in-law’s mother.

Food columnist Margaret Button loves recipes that using the basic technique, you can swap out the ingredients to make another variety, creating a new dish. This easy stromboli is just that and will quickly become part of your weeknight dinner rotation. 

Friday, as food columnist Margaret Button watched the Berkshires turn into a scene from Disney’s “Frozen,” she decided to try a no-yeast cinnamon roll recipe that had come with a gift box of cinnamon spices she received for Christmas

As I write this column, the Berkshires are covered with a sheet of ice and I wish I had saved some of the cocoa mix and marshmallows I made this Christmas for myself. There’s nothing else on my agenda today, so I’m going to make some for myself. Don’t be intimidated by making the marshmallows. It can be a sticky mess, but they are well worth it!

This stuffing recipe is obviously too late for your Thanksgiving turkey, but Christmas is coming — and it’s great anytime. 

Since retiring from The Berkshire Eagle, I’ve been clearing my home of, for lack of a better word, "stuff" I don’t want, don’t need or haven’t used in years. 

I threw out an accordion file of recipes clipped from magazines and newspapers after seeing how thick the dust was on it. I’m now mired in the literally thousands of recipes I’ve stashed online … I’ve decided to try one recipe a week, deleting those that aren’t up to my standards or tastes, and moving those I like to my binder. Last weekend, I tried a carrot quiche.

In these days of quarantining and social distancing, the perfect Galentine's Day or Valentine's Day get-together is best kept to that special BFF or two or just you and the love of your life. Maybe movie night with your favorite rom/com movie, accompanied by a sweet charcuterie board — a dessert tray, featuring sweet dips and dippers, fresh fruits and bright red candies.

Here we are at the very beginning of a new year, and so far, it’s not much different from the coronavirus pandemic, socially distanced, isolat…