Clafoutis. That’s NOT a term you expected to see next on my blog, but please bear with me. We’re home to the Heartland after our six weeks spent redoing our family’s investment home in the Outer Banks. But I’m waiting to share my Before and After photos until I get the professional photos of the […]
Lavender Infused Lightning Cake With Lemon Lavender Glaze
Our good friend and neighbor Olivia showed up at my door with a gift of some culinary lavender. (She’s always kind like that!) So of course I set out to find a recipe I could make to use some of those beautiful flower buds. I laughed out loud when I found this “Lighting” cake recipe […]
A Day Spent With My Foodie Friend…And Our Five Course Autumn Harvest Dinner
A Five Course Autumn Harvest Dinner? No sweat! I simply joined forces with a great “Foodie Friend” to make it happen. And boy…did it happen! Earlier this Autumn I had the privilege of spending a day cooking with Jim in his well equipped kitchen in Kalona, Iowa. (I was like a kid in a candy […]
Got Fruit? Make A Crostata! It’s A Simple Delicious Dessert
When you’re in the mood for a delicious dessert but you don’t feel like spending hours in the kitchen “fussing” over it…Make a CROSTATA! I’ve you’ve never heard of a crostata you’re probably not alone. It’s an Italian baked tart or pie. It’s like a pie…but much easier to make! (So what’s not to love […]
Top 10 Desserts of 2015
You came, you saw, you drooled. Drumroll please…..here are my top 10 dessert recipes of 2015! These are the recipes you, dearest readers, loved the most: 1. Chocolate Waffle Iron Cookies These cookies take so little time to make and even less time to disappear. They taste like moist, delicious chocolate cake. There’s nothing bad about that. Nothing […]
Apple and Blackberry Crostata
When I’m in a hurry to make a dessert, I simply reach for whatever fruits are in my kitchen (today it was apples and blackberries) and I whip up a crostata. And you know me…there is NO recipe involved…but I did create a recipe card for you at the end of this post. I peeled […]
Tart Cherry Dessert
I’m blessed with LOTS of tart cherries in our freezer, and I was looking for a different way to use some of them. I came across an old family recipe in one of my cookbooks, and I decided to give it a try. I made my Aunt Ernestine’s Cherry Dessert. I used […]
Kitchen Sink Fruit Crostata
Sometimes I think outside the box. (Well…I guess that’s MOST of the time.) And today I decided to use up all the fruit sitting in the fruit bowl on the counter…by throwing them all together in a crostata! In a mixing bowl I thinly sliced two peeled apples, two really ripe peaches, and one pear. […]