a little food blog
Cookies? I can bake those blindfolded. Cakes? With one hand tied behind my back. Pies? Well, pies are another story. Pies are no joke. Conquering the crust takes patience and practice. It took me two attempts to get this one right. Then you have to wait for hours (well, an hour and a half) for the pie to bake and another four hours before you can help yourself to a slice. If ever a dessert were a labor of love. ...
Early-summer dessert doesn't get much better than a simple strawberry tart. Chock-full of sweet berries, you can make this dessert as fancy or as simple as you please. Either way you slice it, it's delicious. For the past the past month or so, bright red strawberries have stood out on stands at the Farmer's Market. Every time I picked up a quart, the farmer I buy from would tell me they were just picked yesterday. Something about that reminder – that someone else picked these berries – ...
Over the past four years, I have posted a Five Days of Cinco de Mayo recipe blitz leading up the fifth of May. I do not have it in me this year to go to such lengths, but I do have a group of blogger friends sharing 40 Cinco de Mayo recipes today. Let's be real, who needs five recipes when you can have 40?! My contribution to this party is a tequila lime tart that is a cinch to whip up and a treat to eat. As someone who has no use for tequila outside of a margarita glass, I was ...
Do you have a favorite Girl Scout Cookie? If I were stranded on a deserted island, I would want a case of Samoas to wash up on shore. Thin Mints and Tag-A-Longs would put a smile on my face, but Samoas would temporarily make me forget my dire circumstances alone on that island. This Samoa tart does not have quite the same taste as a traditional Samoa cookie, but it is delicious nonetheless. Enjoy! PrintSamoa TartAuthor Vegan Desserts by Hannah Kaminsky IngredientsFor the Crust1 ...
A couple of weeks ago I spent my $20 allowance at the farmer's market in no more than 10 minutes. I walked up to a stand I am fond of buying from and purchased $2 worth of peppers, $5 worth of tomatoes and $8 worth of blackberries in a blink. I headed over to another stand to buy a $5 bouquet of wildflowers and was done. This is how I shop. I know what I want, and I go in and get it. I do this because I loathe shopping. I reserved a portion of my two quarts of blackberries for this citrus ...
Writing a blog provides the perfect excuse I need to make weird recipes. Pre-blog, I might not have tucked a recipe for avocado crème pie away. Now, I bake pretty much whatever catches my eye. This is not always a good thing. Fortunately, this pie was a good thing. The recipe began, "Although this may sound bizarre at first, it makes a lot more sense when you remember that avocados are actually fruits!" The author went on to ask, "You wouldn’t think twice about a banana crème pie right?" Well ...
