I love summer. As you can see by my noticeably absent presence on the web, I’ve been enjoying every minute of it. While I’ve taken a break from work (and from blogging), I haven’t taken a break from cooking and eating! Yesterday involved a trip to our local book store, where I devoured every new […]
Chocolate Zucchini Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
I always buy too much produce at the market every week. I have all of these positive intentions about having a few extra slimming meals during the week, because I had a few too many glasses of wine or pieces of cake, and more often than not, I end up tossing the leftover veggies in […]
Fresh Pineapple Crumble Cake
Here is a lovely cake you can make over the weekend, with fresh pineapple. I’ve long been a fan of pineapple upside down cakes, but I find the cake part often ends up being very dense, instead of having a nice light crumb you would expect from a basic vanilla cake. This recipe works – […]
Any Day All-Occasion Snack Cake
I’m not going to tap dance around the subject of photography today. Let’s get straight to the issue, shall we? This blog post suffers from lack of good photography. My usual process is to snap pictures while prepping, cooking or baking, and I then snap a few more of the finished dish, after being portioned […]
Baked Calvados Caramel Apples
Forgive me if you’re a stranger to Calvados. Most people to whom I introduce this apple-based brandy from the French region of Lower Normandy are unfamiliar with it. It’s made with cider, and aged in oak casks before being bottled, and its maturation period varies. The longer it ages, the more it resembles a fine […]