• Clare's Kitchen: Cookie marathon

  Around Dec. 19, I make an enormous pot of chili. It's the good old standby that will see us through the next 4 days when the kitchen resembles an around-the-clock cookie factory.

  11/30/2011 12:00 AM
• Clare's Kitchen: Making Dad's favorite dinner

  In light of my father's ardor for cooking and food is it any wonder that my tonsillectomy at age 2 seemed a harbinger of things to come?

  09/28/2011 12:00 AM
• Clare's Kitchen: Empty nesters revisit the thrill of the grill

  My theory is that autumn is possibly the best time of the year to cook on the grill. It’s not so beastly hot that you mind being outside.

  08/31/2011 12:00 AM
• Heritage Chesapeake Bay crop is making a comeback

  When I was a girl, Virginia blue crabs were plentiful, and enjoying them was standard-operating procedure.

  07/27/2011 12:00 AM
• Clare's Kitchen: With time-tested kitchen strategy, beach week is a breeze

  When the catalog of rental cottages comes bounding through the mail slot (always on the dreariest day of winter), my heart leaps up. I start leafing through it immediately to find this year's repository of all my summer dreams and hopes.

  06/29/2011 12:00 AM
• Clare's Kitchen: Special luncheon dishes make spring parties sing

  As our lovely, gentle spring turns to summer, thoughts turn to special parties. Celebratory luncheons in recognition of weddings and high school graduations loom large in the coming weeks.

  05/25/2011 12:00 AM

• Cream Cheese Frosting

  Adapted from “My Mother’s Southern Kitchen” by James Villas

  04/27/2011 11:16 AM

• Paw Paw's Birthday Caramel Cake with Caramel Frosting

  An old Richmond favorite, guaranteed to please.

  04/27/2011 11:14 AM

• Hummingbird Cake

  A sweetly Southern classic, this cake makes a huge statement and seems to improve with age. Don’t worry about consigning it to the fridge for the few days it may take to eat it — it’s enormous.

  04/27/2011 11:10 AM
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  Clare's Kitchen: Classy cakes

  Clare Osdene Schapiro welcomes her sister, Jo Sallade, into her kitchen for a lesson in cake decoration. Video by Penelope M. Carrington/Times-Dispatch.    Read the story. Download the recipe and search for others in our recipe database.  See what else Clare's Kitchen is cooking.

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• Clare's Kitchen: 10 tips for gorgeous homemade cakes

  Cool the layers in the pans on a wire rack for about 10 minutes.

  04/27/2011 12:00 AM
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  Clare's Kitchen: Asparagus Pizza

  Clare Osdene Schapiro is back in the kitchen. This time she is making asparagus pizza. Video by Penelope M. Carrington/Times-Dispatch.    Read the story. Download the recipe and search for others in our recipe database.  See what else Clare's Kitchen is cooking. 

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  Clare's Kitchen: Veal paprika

  Watch Clare Osdene Schapiro make veal paprika stew.Video by Penelope M. Carrington/Times-Dispatch. Read the article and find the recipes for veal paprika, corn chowder and beef bourguignon. Search the recipe database for more. See what else Clare's Kitchen is cooking.     

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• Clare's Kitchen: Oyster love can happen year round

  A humble cookie did it for Proust in "Remembrance of Things Past," but for me it's definitely oysters.

  01/26/2011 12:00 AM
• Clare's Kitchen: Learn the law of trickle-down partynomics

  You're having a cocktail party. How lovely! Now take a deep breath while I impart my secret for party-giving success.

  12/29/2010 12:00 AM
• English classic dessert can be an acquired taste

  If you are in the fruitcake-hating camp, plum pudding’s rich, black density may seem a particularly exquisite torture.

  12/15/2010 12:01 AM
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  Clare's Kitchen: Pumpkin Cheesecake

  Don't know what to take along at Thanksgiving when you don't have responsibility for the bird? Try Clare Schapiro's pumpkin cheesecake. Video by Penelope M. Carrington/Times-Dispatch.

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