It Rises; It Falls; It’s All Going to be Okay

A chocolate soufflé for your Valentine

If you’re new here, welcome! I hope the recipes I share and the little lessons along the way will make your cooking (and life) easier. With so many Substacks now, I understand it’s hard to support everyone. Never fear. There’s plenty here that is free. To those of you who have chosen to part with a some pieces of green on my behalf, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You’ll find recipe updates in the index, all downloadable and ready to print. Find my cookbook links here and a link to older recipes here. My former blog was having a nervous breakdown, so I ended up on Substack. I hope you’ll join me.

Hello from the northern hinterlands, where ice and snow rule! The fickle New England weather has been uncharacteristically steadfast in dishing out the cold this February. In recent years the temperatures see-sawed from cold to (relatively) temperate, with tiny hints that spring would come soonish. Not this year. It looks like we’re in it for the long haul.

That’s okay! We can cheerfully…