I created these tartlets a few years back when I was trying to avoid making lemon meringue pie. I was participating in a blogging challenge and made a different pie for every letter of the alphabet. For “L” the lemon meringue pie seemed the obvious choice, however I had not yet tackled meringue and was […]
Red, White & Blue Ice Cream Sandwiches
I’m the first to admit that sometimes when craving an ice cream sandwich, the classic version, consisting of vanilla ice cream between two rectangular, chocolate wafers really hits the spot. It’s the one wrapped in paper, served at ball games, on school lunch trays on certain special days of the year. The one that seems […]
Sweet Lemon Strawberry Sandwich Cookies
Sometimes the best dessert is just a simple little cookie. Or a not so simple cookie! A good example of a simple little cookie would be Chewy Chocolate Thins or perhaps a Gingersnap. Because it is beautiful today and because summer is almost here, my head is filled with summery things like lemons, strawberries and […]
Mango Jam
While working on some spring flavors for cakes and treats, I came up with this simple Mango Jam. The fresh mango is cooked down with a splash of orange juice, a lemon slice and some sugar. I held back on additional spices (though it was quite tempting to throw in some ginger or cinnamon!) When […]
Spring Chicks Cake with Lemon & Coconut
In our neck of the woods we were teased with what seemed to be an early spring that started up in late February. The snow disappeared, the air was warm, the sun was out, and all the little kids at my school gleefully ditched their snow pants and mittens. A few even came to school in shorts. […]
Honey Cream Blackberry Icebox Cake
This icebox cake has a rich flavor from the combination of warm, floral honey and smooth mascarpone cheese. Layers of crisp ladyfingers are the foundation for the creamy filling, and the cake is studded with shining fresh blackberries. We found that the flavors of this cake really stand out if the chilled cake is given a […]
Chilled Lemon & Lavender Pie
This is a bright, floral dessert with sweet and tangy lemon filling and lavender whipped cream on top. Of all the desserts I worked on this week, this was the one I looked forward to the most! This was my first try using dried lavender buds in a dessert. The bouchons I sampled once at […]
Lemon Ice Cream with Crushed Blueberries
Such a flavor of summertime, is the lemon. Brightening up a pitcher of water, adding citrus zing to grilled chicken, and lending face-puckering sweet-sourness to frozen treats. I love a good lemon sorbet, very simple and straightforward (like this recipe from TheKitchn) with a hefty dose of sweet, but tart lemon still coming out on […]
Hungry Enough To Eat This? Book of Recipes
Hungry Enough To Eat This? A book of family recipes from a good friend I recently received a lovely gift from a good friend. Natalie is a teacher at the school where I work and I had the pleasure of helping in her classroom last year. When not distracted by… whoops, I mean helping students, the […]
Orange Refrigerator Cookies, from the Sunbeam Mixmaster Manual
This is a manual for the Sunbeam Automatic Mixmaster, which will “do all of your mixing, mashing, whipping, beating, stirring, blending, juicing, folding and creaming.” This manual was printed in 1950. And though I don’t have a 1950 Mixmaster, I do have a 1979 model that belonged to my grandmother.It still has a lot of […]