delicious seasonal eats
Can I confess something? I fell off the wagon. Big time fell off. For the past few weeks (okay, maybe all summer), I’ve been indulging in delicious ice creams made with heavy cream and yes, I’ve even cheated a few times and had gluten-filled treats and bread. I’m ready to kick my bad habits to […]
As I mentioned last week, I was able to attend evo conference. I was able to attend a fun dinner sponsored by the California Avocado Commission that included quite possibly the most delicious avocados I have ever eaten in my life. (I brought some home with me.) Before a cooking demo by THE Too Hot […]
Let’s talk family reunions and old-fashioned homemade ice cream for a minute. In my mind, you can’t have one without the other. And it is that time of year again for my family. My paternal grandmother grew up on the same block as her grandparents and all of her aunts, uncles, and cousins. Many of […]
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 […]
Buttermilk ice cream. Cherries. You want this, I promise you–you do. The ice cream is creamy and tangy and marries perfectly with the sweet cherries. We have poached cherries before in a combination of wine, water and sugar with a vanilla bean. But this time around I left out the wine and added almond extract. […]
Did you know July is National Ice Cream Month in the U.S.? I didn’t! Becky clued me in and I’m glad she did. She and I share a love of making homemade ice cream as often as possible. So…this week, I am posting a bunch of ice cream recipes that I’ve been wanting to share […]
Cherry season has arrived! Let’s all give a hip-hip-hooray! Today I want to share a tip I learned years ago from The Martha about pitting cherries without one of those handy-dandy cherry pitters. If I had a cherry tree of my own, I’d buy one. But this is good enough for us occasional pitters. How […]
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 […]
This is from my draft folder. Amid many computer problems that last few years, many posts fell by the wayside. Pictures were lost on my other computer, to be found later. You know how it is. What I do remember about this recipe is how glorious it is. Besides taking some cues from Dorie Greenspan’s, […]
Gluten-free cakes are an interesting thing to tackle. So many different gluten-free flours create such different results. I’ve found that I don’t like to use all “white” flours–sweet (glutinous) rice, tapioca, potato or cornstarch. I like to use sorghum in large proportions because I think it mimics wheat flour better in the baked cake. That […]
