I was happy to see something relatively simple on this week’s Baked Sunday Mornings schedule. And Larry and I both love key lime pie. This is an interesting twist on the traditional key lime pie. I approve of the pretzel crust – it’s a little salty, and the flavor works really well with the tart [...]
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I think it’s official: I don’t like lemon shaker pie, and neither does Larry. I’m positive this is a great version – the Baked crust is always phenomenal, and the recipe instructions to blanch (optional, but I did it) and sugar the lemons first does a good job of reducing the bitterness. The resulting filling [...]
My Best of 2012 list was long and difficult to narrow down. Larry and I had a spirited discussion about what made the cut and what didn’t. At the end, we were left with eleven items that needed to be on our final favorites list. There was a lot of good food last year, though. [...]
While most of the Christmas-celebrating country was eating a fancy roast or goose or turkey, we were feasting on mac & cheese. It’s what happens when your Christmas is tradition-free. We’ve spent the past few Christmases with our neighbors – it usually involves a pot of chili, copious amounts of booze, and lots of inappropriate [...]
A lot of what I cook is inspired by Larry’s cravings. My least favorite part of cooking is deciding what to make – I’m overwhelmed much of the time by the number of cookbooks and recipes at my disposal. We all have our childhood guilty pleasures (mine: Kraft Macaroni & Cheese), and Larry’s is the [...]
Pumpkin pie, here we are again. This is a fairly traditional recipe, with evaporated milk in the filling, and the normal spices. The pie is topped with pepitas and a fantastic pecan brown butter streusel that’s probably the best streusel I’ve ever made. It needs to go on top of everything. This is my last [...]
My long-standing feud with pumpkin pie continues. I didn’t really have a lot of motivation to try to tackle it this year, but then Siobhan from Food Fixe posted a recipe. With mascarpone cheese. And it was on. I think the big issue I have with pumpkin pie is that since I really hate it, [...]
We first had buttermilk pie in San Antonio, Texas. Larry and I aren’t even close to being Southern, but we both have an affinity for the food – especially the desserts. Buttermilk pie is a custard pie (my favorite kind of pie). It’s similar to chess pie, but it doesn’t include cornmeal – and chess [...]
My friend and neighbor Assana recently sent me an email consisting of just the link to the recipe for these beautiful little tartlettes. I responded that I had goat cheese, and Assana said she’d buy the figs if I’d make the tarts. And so it started. It took me a few days to get these [...]
Trust – I had to have a lot of it to make a tart that calls for canned pears. They’re doctored up with whiskey, though, soaking it up overnight. The rest of the tart is really simple to make. A sweet pastry for the crust, almond cream for the filling. Oh, and more whiskey in [...]
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