It turns out, that while I love pie and everything about making it, many find making a pie from scratch with homemade pie dough, filling and assembling like a daunting task they couldn’t do. I say the hardest part is probably in achieving a flaky pie crust, but be kind to yourself and slowly get…
Effortless Holiday Entertaining Tips
Don’t forget to search the Blog Archives for endless ideas for Thanksgiving and Holiday inspiration of all types, whether you’re keeping the holiday season this year small and intimate, like myself, or you’re attempting towards a safe distant gathering season….. I hope you find some of the joy and magic you love about this time…
Classic Peanut Butter Ice Cream
There are certain desserts that I wholeheartedly believe are year-long delights to bake and enjoy. Their simplistic essence that only needs a handful of ingredients to naturally and wildly transform according to the season, the ingredients available at hand or whatever imagination is setting the mood. And yet these desserts are sought out and devoured…
Vanilla Bean Milk Panna Cotta
When quarantine first began, way back in the middle of March, the one thing I was actually looking forward to was the time to bake and cook freely for myself. Yes, I cook everyday but with my event work and holiday baking, finding the time to cook more elaborate dishes or bake sweets that I…
Watermelon, Peach + Tomato Caprese Salad … the only meal you’ll want this Summer!
It’s the peak of summertime, the heat lingering day after day, that soothing ultra-relaxed “let’s kick back”, celebrate this slowness — live it slowly and fully like Mother Nature intends….the kind of days I live for. In the truth it’s the mentality and lifestyle I wish everyday of the year was more like. More laidback….
Inspiring + Talented BIPOC Everyone Should Know About :: Food
image via Rachel Gurjar ….Continued from original BIPOC post…. For years, I’ve believed that and honestly it’s a fact, that American food is Immigrant Food. Southern and Soul foods created by Black Americans descanted from their slave ancestors, the burger and hot dog were versions that came from dishes brought from Eastern Europeans, Beer, Ice Cream,…
Summer Fruit & Herb Pairings :: Pie Edition
Summer fruits and herbs go together like peaches and blueberries, strawberries and chocolate, and of course pie and ice cream — the best pairing ever! No the lovely pairing of fruits and herbs aren’t ones that automatically come to mind when you think of summer flavors, or any flavor pairing for that matter, but they…
French Vanilla Coffee Ice Cream
If you follow me along on Instagram and saw my story last month, then you saw me using up the last of that darn gallon of milk used in this Salted Caramel Ice Cream and these Milk Tarts “Queijadas de Leite.” I was experimenting and testing my luck with a highly caffeinated ice cream, I…
Milk Tarts {Queijadas de Leite Portuguesas}
Do you have an excess of milk just staring at you, waiting to be used up? Because how many glasses of milk can one drink if they’re not a growing child. Well today I’m digging into my traditional Portuguese roots and sharing a very typical cultural dessert with you. One that is a great use…
Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Ice cream makes everything in life that much better. I wholeheartedly live by that mantra. The comfort a creamy sweet scoop brings when a random craving hits or whenever you’re feeling sad, the joyful memories of hearing the ice cream truck sing its tune when you were a child or the times spent enjoying a…
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