Yesterday I got a 5-pound bags of New York apples at bargain-basement prices, so now I have to make my favorite dessert: Tarte Tatin My maman Tarte Tatin recipe with a all-butter pate brisée. And, more importantly, you have to use salted butter in both the apples and the pastry. When my wife tried my …
I give you a orange, yogurt tart. A quick, simple rustic tart with no heavy baking required what could be more springy?? The crust has almonds, the filling is greek yogurt with half and half and for the topping simply fresh cut orange…divine. When I made this dessert, I kept telling people, before we tried it, …
I was home and after some thinking, I was like “I want something sweet”. Lucky for me I keep emergency crisp topping in the freezer! I had those beautiful pears I got @Costco and I keep a chunk of ginger in my freezer so I didn’t have to do much of anything! First I chopped …
If my childhood was a pastry it would be it….when working your way through a slice, the best few bites are definitely the last, where apples and frangipane meet golden, crumbly crust just sturdy enough to hold it all together. I can’t quite say why I decided on this tart for this dinner. But the …
Do you know a better sweet snack than a brownie? I found this recipe a few years ago, and it has been a picnic/camping staple since then. Think: chocolate + peanut butter + sea salt. I swear these brownies bring out the kid in all who taste them. It’s been a while since I made …
Brownies Coma…unless you’re allergic to peanuts. Read More »
After visiting my good friends Carol and Aubrey at Dolce Spazio Gelato in Los Gatos, now I wanted some cold treat like gelato or sorbet….Thanks ladies… Well I had this bottle of Framboise Lambic Beer in my fridge for 2 weeks and after seeing a recipe online with limoncello sorbet, i was like “HEY”….. I’m …
My most luscious and intense chocolate mousse brought me back to my childhood with my mom recipe. Although I have a few other chocolate mousse recipes in my repertoire, her recipe is a classic and has that perfect slightly sticky texture, that sticks to your taste buds, then hits you with a wallop of pure dark chocolate flavor. This recipe …
The day of green is marching upon us – for those of you who don’t like glugging galons of green tinted beer and doing shots of irish cream at a crowded, sticky-floored bar, why not celebrate St.Patrick’s Day with a bowlful of minty cool ice cream instead? This ice cream is a peppermint breeze to …
A confession: I’m not into tropical fruits. Well, bananas excluded. All others I feel pretty lukewarm about. And pineapples? too sweet for me. Not a pineapple fan. But then something happened. My friend this cake for the Super Bowl party. It was pure heaven. And now I’m hooked on pineapple upside down cake. So anyways, …
The upside-down pineapple cake that (my) dreams are made of… Read More »
Time for some lemony sweetness. I made some lemon bars last week, but they were gone before I had time to dig in. I did get a taste, but it wasn’t enough…so I made a batch that I could hog all to myself. First I needed a crust for my lemon curd to sit on. …
