recipes

This is a fairly basic, unadulterated recipe that yields an extremely rich, dense fudge.

While it may sound odd, cornbread salad is a terrific dish for a potluck or picnic and is a great way to use up left over cornbread.

Ed Levy from Baltimore was hoping I would be able to get the recipe for the Salted Chocolate Caramel Pie that he and his wife so enjoyed at Bottega, the new restaurant located in the Station North neighborhood in Baltimore.

Marie Cox from Bel Air was hoping someone would have the recipe for the creamed spinach that was served at Haussner's restaurant in Baltimore. Sadly, the restaurant closed a number of years ago, but many of their most popular dishes live on in people's memories. Cox said she has tried many recipes for creamed spinach but she has not been able to duplicate the special flavor of the restaurant dish.

The Eastern Shore met the Middle East in East Baltimore recently when a woman from Tilghman Island taught a woman from Lebanon to make Maryland crab soup.

The problem with the holidays is that consuming desserts, starchy sides, fatty meats and gallons of various alcoholic beverages can wreak havoc on your overall health.

Veronica Robinson from Baltimore was in search of a recipe for making a 7-up cake. She had a recipe long ago for the cake but unfortunately she misplaced it. This cake is an oldie but a goodie. Based upon the number of people who kindly shared the recipe, it is still very popular.

Joan Metcalf from Westminster asked for help finding the recipe for Chocolate Bliss Bites. She had clipped the recipe from the February 2007 issue of Prevention magazine but said she was missing the complete directions. She liked the fact that the cookies had no fat.

Throughout the month of December, Springer hosts gingerbread-decorating workshops in her lovely Phoenix home. Her kitchen — transformed into a veritable Candyland with bowls and bowls of gumdrops, M&Ms and Hershey's kisses — is the stuff of kids' dreams.

Recipe Finder | Moist and sweet Marzipan cake

Dorothy Miller from Towson was looking for a recipe for what she called Oriental fruitcake. She said the layer cake was made with pineapple, coconut, walnuts and raisins.

Roseanne Glick from Mt. Washington was looking for the recipe for a delicious appetizer that someone brought to a potluck cocktail party recently. She said it was a water chestnut wrapped in bacon and coated with some type of a barbecue sauce. She, along with many other guests at the party, found the single-bite morsels surprisingly irresistible.

Jan Griffn from Cary, N.C., was looking for a recipe for the spice cake that used to be made and sold at A&P stores across the country many years ago.

The idea that beer has just as much right as wine to be on a fancy dinner table is not a novelty. And during the annual Baltimore Beer Week celebration, which begins on Friday, it's a matter of principle.

Barbara Daniel of Cross Lanes, W.Va., was looking for a "good old" recipe for making pickled green beans. She said that her grandmother always made them but most of her recipes are long lost.

Kathy Blair from Somerset, Ky., was looking for a recipe she had clipped from a magazine years ago and has since lost for a unique meatloaf. She said in this recipe the meatloaf mixture was rolled out flat and then mashed potatoes and chopped celery leaves were spread over the mixture and then it was rolled up jellyroll style.

The Food for Thought stage at this weekend's Baltimore Book Festival will present a full slate of talks and demonstrations by Baltimore-based chefs and visiting cookbook authors