delicious seasonal eats
Friends, this stuff is it. My husband, bless his disbelieving heart, raised his eyebrows at the thought of this Minted Grapefruit Sorbet. I’m sure he was thinking (or maybe it’s because he’s said this before), “Why can’t we just eat the fruit? Why does everything have to be turned into ice cream?” My answer is […]
Pfeffernusse cookies are a family favorite recipe lightly adapted from my very favorite cookbook, Joy of Cooking. The pfeffernusse are lightly sweet, spicy, chewy, and utterly delicious. Christmas cookies are wonderful, aren’t they? Baking favorite recipes together is one of my very favorite parts of the holidays. My husband is the first one who introduced […]
My favorite Christmas cookies are Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies from Martha Stewart. I played around to make them gluten-free and vegan. Some of you, I’m sure, don’t think it’s possible to make delicious vegan, GF cookies. These are the cookies that will shatter that. I’ll admit I haven’t adapted some recipes successfully. But this one […]
A few weeks before Thanksgiving I gave up gluten again. I was really wondering if I could be strong enough to resist all of my favorite Thanksgiving fixin’s that weren’t GF. I made a plan so it would be easier to be good. I looked for recipes on my favorite GF blogs so that I […]
As soon as peach season ends, I’m eagerly awaiting its return. Peach season is my very favorite time of year. Two weeks ago the first freshly picked peaches from my favorite local stand, Allred Orchards, became available. (Believe me when I say that my eyes filled with tears as I turned into the parking […]
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 […]
My oldest daughter has been begging me for weeks and weeks to make sugar cookies or cupcakes for her so she could decorate them. There are times as a parent, specifically as a mother, when you have to ask yourself: Just how much colored sugar am I willing to clean up today? And the answer […]
C is for coconut, chocolate chip and crack. All of which these cookies have in them. Purely addictive. I saw Jenny and Brooke post their recipes for coconut oil chocolate chippers. I know I can trust their cookie judgement. I saw Helene’s take on David Leite’s chocolate chip cookie recipe. She used some coconut oil […]
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 […]
These cookies aren’t cheap to make. I have to throw that out there before I tell you anything else. Why? Because of the almond paste. The gloriousness and expensiveness that is almond paste. No one besides real chefs have as much almond paste in the cupboard as I do. I cleaned out the store shelves […]
