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…
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…
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…
Irish Soda Bread Recipe for Rolls or Loaves
Sunday afternoons in mid-March, the sunny ones with a warm glow and that slight chilly breeze — those afternoons call for baking. And because it’s almost St. Patrick’s Day, I thought it’d be nice to revisit a classic recipe I haven’t made since my earlier blogging days, several years ago … Soda Bread! It sounded…
