If you’re like me and crave ice cream year ’round and this will have you licking your monitor… Oh yum!! Oh yes I did. I walked past the bagged Key limes in the grocery store last weeks and all I could think about was key lime pie. Key lime pie. I’ve always made Key lime …
Just lower sugar, lower fat…. I did some experimenting to get this just right and was really pleased with the results. You know when something is gobbled up that it’s a success. That was the case last Sunday night when I took this to a friend’s house. Even though there were only 3 pie eaters, I …
Not much to this one other than I had a roll of phyllo/fillo dough and a gorgeous granny smith apple and we had a hankering for something sweet after watching the EPL. Ingredients: 10 sheets 14″x 18″phyllo dough 4 Tablespoons melted butter or 1/2 butter and 1/2 coconut oil 1 large granny smith apple (chopped to equal …
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 …
