Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
This is probably ranking as my no. 1 coffee cake recipe so far. It results in the best tasting peach-blueberry cake EVER. I can’t emphasize this point enough. In my family, half of it was eaten by just two people within 15 minutes of serving. I had to hide the rest away so that the […]
Summertime means seeing a whole host of fruits that I would generally not see in the stores for the rest of the year. Stone fruits are the ones I look forward to most: peaches, nectarines, apricots, and plums. Yummy, yummy fruits that make their appearance for only a couple of months during the year. And […]
Baking as a hobby has its downsides–there are tempting desserts hanging around the house all of the time! Why reach for an apple when there is a piece of cake or an experimental cookie lying around, just waiting to be tasted. And then there are the periodic quality control tastings that must occur. I thought […]
It was one of those days when liqueur was needed, but not for making chocolates! Hpnotiq liqueur, pictured below, probably does have exotic fruit juices as described on the bottle, but the primary flavor for me was the taste of refreshing grapefruit. Mmmm good. This blue concoction is the brain child of Raphael Yakoby and […]
It’s been a while since I posted an article, the reason being that the only time I have had left after the day is done is go to sleep. I’m sure you know what I mean! But last weekend, we took a break from it all and treated ourselves. It must have been the rainiest […]