July 3, 2024
I’ll say it over and over… I really miss baking. So along with the tofu dinner, I wanted dearly to make a patriotic-hued treat for the 4th. So I brought the berries I had just bought in DC home to Rochester for this undertaking. The very last thing of Apple Read more…
November 28, 2019
This was my first spoken sentence apparently. I wanted a banana. I liked bananas (see below) and I still do very much. Banana desserts, especially. So on Thanksgiving dessert duty, a pie. A banana pudding pie with a Golden Oreo crust. Vanilla pudding, another childhood favorite So my ripe bananas Read more…
January 27, 2019
I get very to-do-y in January. In fact, you best watch out if you get in the way of me crossing things off my list. This is me. A productive winter sets the tone for fruitful year. Because you reap what you sow. That’s a saying for a reason. I Read more…
January 26, 2019
With a brunch get-together happening, I decided to break in my new cookbook, a gift from my Secret Santa at work: Modern Vegan Baking, filled with next-level vegan baking challenges. I started with the lemon meringue… but improvised the throw down of some Mi-Del Lemon Snaps on the bottoms of Read more…
November 11, 2018
With a very dear friend’s birthday deserving a proper cake, especially after the praise I received for my recent vegan Pom Pom Cake, this cake (below) would just not do. Though it tasted great, it was–hideous looking. There was no way this was going to cut it! So it was Read more…
December 11, 2010
Burning your own dessert with a butane torch is not only exciting, it is an interactive way to spark up a holiday potluck! After committing to this dessert some time ago and purchasing all the special supplies {10 ramekins, butane torch, butane, arrowroot, fruit sugar, etc}, it was time to Read more…