With fall now in full swing here in New England, the leaves have changed colour and the days are growing shorter. It is one of our favorite times of year not least because the wonderful, bountiful apple harvest. It’s a great opportunity to make an apple tart. We began with a mix of local Empire […]
Dessert
Cherry Almond Tea Cakes
We’ll be honest…things don’t always go according to plan. The plan was to make these amazing cupcakes- follow a recipe- tweak it the end…and it was a big, fat fail. The batter oozed all over the oven and left a hardened mess on our cupcake tins. So…plan two. Make the next cupcake on our […]
Mint Infused Heavy Cream with Freshly Picked Blueberries
Here in New England it is blueberry season. Everywhere we go we signs advertising fresh blueberries and opportunities abound for picking your own. We couldn’t be happier as we love to have them for breakfast….usually in our cereal but today just on their own. One of the things we loved most about our […]
Paprika Chocolate Sauce with Chocolate Cake
The other day we found some lovely Spanish smoked paprika at our local Marshall’s store. Marshall’s, Home Goods, TJ Maxx…..all great for culinary finds. We snatched it up and then thought what will we make? You might remember we love cookbooks. We have so many and are always reading through them for inspiration. We generally […]
Ciao Bella Blackberry Cabernet Sorbet…a Review
A couple of years ago we were in the market, where, I’m sure we were not looking for sorbet, but much more likely ice cream or ice cream sandwiches or something with fat and yumminess that we didn’t associate with sorbet. What we found was Ciao Bella Blackberry Cabernet Sorbet. I […]
Five Spiced Salted Pecans…for Ice Cream!
Sweet or savory? Do you mix? One of us does….and one of us didn’t….until now! Last week we went to the Tanglewood Music Festival for a fabulous night of Beethoven where we sat on the lawn and enjoyed a little picnic of snacks (see previous blog). We had made some five […]
Blueberry Cakes
Did you know that today is (was) national blueberry muffin day? I didn’t. I stumbled upon that fact today when I was checking my email. While this is not a recipe for a muffin, it is close though, and as a child I confused them all the time. When I was little my […]
Strawberry Parfaits
I can remember eating my grandmother’s strawberry pie every year since I was old enough to remember anything. I can’t actually remember her making it, but I can recall helping my mother make it for Easter and special occasions in the summer. She would allow us to count the marshmallows and then let us […]