Tag: fruit

Whatever the inspiration, this is a pie to keep. The corn adds its own crunchy sweetness to the soft blueberries, and the native starch in the corn helps set the pie filling.  …

...The result is a cross between a Swedish Midsummer Cake, a French Macaron or Dacquoise (the big sister to the macaron), an Australian Pavlova and my weird imagination. A very good cross. Let's …

I have a terrible sweet tooth (as you may have divined if you've been reading this blog for any length of time), but my sweet tooth is not typical. Not for me the sweetness overload, …

Springtime is strawberry season! And even though the strawberries aren't quite there yet (the heavy rains we've had in California have really impacted the flavor), that hasn't stopped me from buying and eating pounds of …

I'm back chickadees! And it's a new season. This winter has been the winter of my discontent. It was cold and wet, inside and out. But a change of seasons does bring a change of perspective …

I was very sad to have missed the summer jam season this year. With all the craziness around buying the house and moving, I never got around to putting up plum jam, or strawberry …

One of the things that Ken and I were most excited about when we bought our house was the prospects of a garden. We had managed to make do for years with the tiny …