desserts

Summer Fruit Dessert Cobbler

June 25, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

This works great with frozen fruit in the winter, but in the summer I like to make it with fresh fruit. Last night I used the blackberries I’d bought at Costco.  (I was going to do half blackberry and half raspberry but someone ate all the raspberries!) 1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup sugar 1 tsp [...]

Small Berry Custards from Jacques Pepin

May 10, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

This is a fantastic dessert from Jacques Pepin More Fast Food My Way, which is available on video or in book form.   You can explore lots of the recipes and videos on his PBS site, which is very cool. In fact, he has the recipe for the Small Berry Custards posted here so I won’t [...]

New York Cheesecake

April 15, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

A girl at my daughter’s school has recently fallen in love with cheesecake and my daughter thought it would be fun to make one and take it in to share at school.  She  went shopping with me and we bought the cream cheese, then she flaked out was studying for a history test and didn’t [...]

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

January 31, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Is it still a cake baked in a loaf pan? Delicious, no matter how you slice it! I have two lemon trees so am always looking for yummy ways to use lemons. This definitely qualifies and the poppy seeds add a nice crunch and some color. 4 eggs, at room temperature 1 tsp vanilla extract [...]

Candied Orange Peels

January 4, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Save a few orange peels, slice them thinly, cook with some sugar… Mmmm!  Like marmalade on steroids or something, because we don’t really like marmalade here but we love candied orange peels! These are a classic winter holiday treat for us. We are lucky to have an orange tree so have an endless supply of [...]

Apple Bread Recipe

September 20, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

My mom shared a really good recipe for apple cake a few years ago and I make it regularly. We have 3 apple trees in the yard (lost one this year!) so have plenty of apples in fall and winter.  I saw this recipe for Apple Bread in the Penzey‘s  catalog and thought I’d give [...]

Lemon Squares Recipe

September 13, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

My lemon trees are in overdrive mode these days! And my girl’s packing lunch so I figured these would provide a great dessert.   The recipe is from Mom’s Big Book of Baking. Crust: 1 cup flour 1/2 cup powdered sugar 2 Tbs cornstarch 1/4 tsp salt 7 Tbs butter, chilled and cut into small pieces [...]

Quick Tapioca Pudding Recipe

July 27, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

We all love tapioca pudding around here. It’s just a sweet creamy treat and so easy to make!  Buy the little box of “quick” or “minute” tapioca and follow this tapioca pudding recipe. Tapioca Pudding 1/3 cup sugar 3 Tbs minute tapioca 2 3/4 cup milk 1 egg, well beaten 1 tsp vanilla Mix together [...]

Apple Turnovers

March 15, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I made these the first time over 7 years ago. I remember the time because my youngest came home one day from school when she was in 2nd grade, a week or two after I made them for the first time, with apples from our own trees, and she announced that she had volunteered that [...]

How I Cook

March 2, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

When I was first learning how to cook it took all my attention just to get everything on the table, hot, at the same time. But once you’re past that stage, you find lots of time where you have a spare 10 or 15 or 20 minutes while you’re waiting for something to happen. If [...]

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