It’s berry picking season! You can enjoy your berries au natural or treat yourself, and loved ones, to freshly baked berry goodness. Blackcurrant Jittery Jam Squares are made with Blackcurrant Jam, using blackcurrants we picked ourselves at Paradis des Fruits. What a great pick! We headed home with a trunk full of tasty fruit for…
Blackcurrant Apple Pear Tart – Because Fruit
When I fall upon a spectacular sounding recipe or sample something fantastic and feel that it wouldn’t be too hard to replicate, my inclination is to plunge ahead and make it happen. If I love it, and my taste testers love it, then I’m quite certain that you will love it, too. Case in point:…
Simply the Best Banana Cake – Extraordinary!
Franci Mashaal is a baker extraordinaire. She brought love into a gathering of mourners and reminded everyone of how life’s simple pleasures — her banana cake — elevate the ordinary into the extraordinary. Of course we were grateful — and even more so now that we have Franci’s Simply the Best Banana Cake recipe.
Espresso Brownies – Coffee + Chocolate
If mixing chocolate into your coffee can make you smarter, then can we assume you’ll also get smarter when you mix coffee into your chocolate? If coffee and chocolate are good for you, then can we assume that these Espresso Brownies are going to do more than just make you happy? If you’ve sampled Marge’s Linzer Torte and you now…
Marge’s Linzer Torte – For Fainting
Hello butter! Hello sugar! Hello raspberry jam! I’m thrilled you can all join me for Marge’s Linzer Torte — For Fainting! Thank goodness spectacular homemade desserts don’t cross my path too often, but when they do they stick out like a sun-sweetened plum. Marge Greenberg says she doesn’t know why so many ingredients have been inserted into Linzer…
PBJ Smoothie Bowl – Or Simply Smoothie
After 426 JC posts and all the blah blah blah, you probably think you know all my secrets. But what you don’t know yet, is that I have smoothie bowl envy. For several years now I’ve gazed upon photos of smoothie bowls so lovely they’d make Martha Stewart blush, but until I read Robin Asbell‘s…