Your cart is currently empty!
Tag: dessert
-
Antelope Horns: A Cookie
These are not Gazelle Horns, the North African cookie/pastry. I wanted to make something a little different, and use up some dates and tahini I had on hand. So! these are the Texas variation on those delicacies, created for a friend with a nut allergy to be able to enjoy them. They aren’t a sweet…
-
Eat This While You Read That: CV Walter
This one was a first, in that I got to hand some of the food I’d prepared for the blog post to the author! And get squee‘s in response. Also, this is a delicious treat. Both the food, and the book! When I am making baklava I don’t make the filo dough. There are some…
-
Mock Pecan Pie
This is a recipe from my mother-in-law, Dorothy Portwood Wilson, and it’s another one of those I’m adding to my fascination with food anthropology. You can tell a lot from a recipe, reading between the lines. This one, for instance. It’s a fine recipe for those who enjoy pecan pie, but have tree nut…
-
Chocolate Pie, Chocolate Pudding
First, it’s pudding. Put it in a baked pie shell? Voila! It’s a pie! Ok, following the new format for recipes, I’ll do the ingredient list, instructions, any chatty comments, then at the bottom I’ll have a printable version. Is this working for you all? Chocolate Pie Put in saucepan: 1 c. white sugar 1/3…
-
Eat This While You Read That: Amie Gibbons
Welcome back, gentlereaders! Amie asked me nicely if I would be willing to revive the popular series pairing food and books, since she had a book, and a recipe…. and it’s been a long time. I have badly missed this series. It lasted over a year, and I loved doing it. Since her request came…
-
Eat This While You Read That: Dave Freer
This is a repost of the First Reader’s favorite thing I made during the year of authors and food I blogged a while back. I miss that, I wish I had the time again… but today, it’s the First Reader’s birthday, so I’m sharing this recipe and plan to make it for him this evening. …
-
Vintage Kitchen: Gingerbread Banana Shortcake
This recipe was submitted by a reader, Peter Budd, or rather he sent me a pdf booklet of his great-grandmother’s family recipes. I scrolled through it, seeing several options, and then decided that given the season, this one was a good choice. That, and it’s not a flavor combination I would have chosen on my…
-
Nom Pum: Coconut Waffles
I’ve been working on making Pho from scratch, and a friend with a terrible sense of humor wanted to know if I would also be making Phi, Phee, and Phum. So just to amuse myself, I looked up recipes for them. And they exist, at least in some form. The recipe for Phum (Pum) caught…
-
No-Bake Mango Cheesecake
So this is an extrapolated recipe from Shadowdancer Duskstar, who put it in the comments of a recent post. The Ginja Ninja loves mango, and as we took a trip to Jungle Jim’s and I was able to score a few nice ripe ones (although they were Brazilian, I’m not sure what the difference would…
-
Vintage Kitchen: Bread Pudding
I grew up eating bread pudding. It’s a cheap, filling breakfast (or dessert, more on that later) that uses up things we usually had in abundance: bread, milk, and eggs. Since we were milking goats, kept chickens, and making homemade bread which stales if you look at it funny, it was a great option. Later…
-
Blackberries & Cream Cobbler
The key to a perfect cobbler is understanding the fruit. This means, of course, that you should be tasting it and paying attention. Such a rough chore, but for my family, I’ll nibble berries while baking! We brought home three (scant) quarts of berries yesterday, and I promised the First Reader a cobbler as soon…
-
Pavlova: A Sweet Cloud Confection
I had the privilege of attending a friend and fellow author‘s citizenship ceremony this last month, which was an amazing thing to see. Those of us who are born into it don’t think enough about the privileges we take for granted. The individual liberties, freedoms, and responsibilities we bear. It is our solemn duty to…