delicious seasonal eats
Other kids would be playing outside during summer vacation, and I did that too, but mostly I would spend the afternoons watching cooking shows on PBS. I paid attention and learned about new foods with names I’d never heard of. I would experiment here and there with some basics I had learned, but it wasn’t […]
Every so often a dessert comes into your life and you think: This is my favorite. That is how I feel about this ice cream. Years ago I formulated a recipe for Creme Brulee Ice Cream. I remember looking around for the perfect recipe, wanting to put my own twist on it. I ended up […]
I had grand plans of using a bar of Amano chocolate to make gluten-free, dairy-free molten chocolate cakes for Valentine’s Day. I haven’t given up on that idea. I’ve been saving that bar of fancy chocolate for months. But I was rather in the mood for caramel, I decided. Something with caramel and nuts. And […]
It’s summer and I don’t usually make bread pudding in the summertime. I save it for those chilly nights when we bump up the thermostat and pull our sweats on, and snuggle up with a good BBC show. But thinking about that makes me hot and want to jump up and turn my a/c on […]
Seventeen days ago I turned 30. Yep. I’m counting. Along with days I’m counting wrinkles and white hairs. The white hairs are easy because they stick straight up and misbehave. I won’t lie. Turning 30 got me down. Two days before my big day, I started to sniffle and sneeze. Then my throat starting hurting […]
It’s not secret that our family adores buttermilk. I’ve probably started many posts about buttermilk with that very sentence. I’ll repeat that again: We adore buttermilk. Back in January, I finally decided to try Martha’s recipe for Buttermilk Panna Cotta. It got rave reviews from my husband, my sister, my kids, and my very own […]
We have been calling this “Loyalist Trifle” since trifle is really an English dessert. But what better way to say “Happy 4th of July!” for us Anglophiles than to make trifle—however nontraditional my recipe may be. Note: I don’t own a traditional trifle dish, so I used a straight-sided glass bowl that is about the […]
