Aaah, Blueberry Buckle. Summer would not be the same without this old fashioned homey dessert. Who can resist soft and sweet blueberries sandwiched between a crunchy streusel and a buttery white cake? Growing up my mother would make blueberry buckle (recipe here) every summer with the blueberries we would pick during camping trips. She always [...]
Date Walnut bread is a very nice tea bread bursting with the flavor of sweet dates and crunchy walnuts. Jean Anderson states in her book ‘The American Century Cookbook’ that the first recipes for this bread began to appear in the 1920s, and it was so popular in the 1930s that it was used to [...]
If you are trying to eat healthier, adding more fiber to your diet and reducing total fat is a good place to start. These moist and flavorful Blueberry Bran Muffins do both of these things, as they contain whole wheat flour and bran and to reduce the fat we add just two tablespoons of canola [...]
An Oven Berry Pancake makes an impressive brunch dish or dessert. One giant pancake with a lovely golden brown crust that is bursting with lightly sweetened berries. How enticing it looks when the sides of the pancake are folded up and over the berries and the finishing touches are placed on top: a dusting of [...]
It seems that every time I open a food magazine or cookbook I am enticed by a new banana bread recipe. This time it was in a BBC Good Food magazine where their recipe for a Banana Streusel Bread contained so many flavorful ingredients that I just knew it was a winner.
Peaches need care in their growing, their storage, their transportation, and in their baking. Bakers may not be able to control how peaches are grown, stored, or transported, but they can control how they are cooked. One of my favorite ways to cook with peaches is this lovely Peach Pie where it combines two layers [...]
I have a real weakness for eating sweet things in the morning. I try to have my daily bowl of oat bran cereal but sometimes I treat myself to a slice of this lovely tea bread. The name ‘Lemon Blueberry Bread’ says it all. This bread is bursting with juicy sweet blueberries and brushing on [...]
The beauty of making your own ice cream is that you can make your own flavor combinations. Raspberry Swirl Ice Cream is one great example; where you take homemade vanilla ice cream, that has a nice sweet vanilla flavor and creamy smooth texture, and layer it with a tart and tangy flavored raspberry sauce. When [...]
When blackberries are at their best, try making this delicious Blackberry Pie. It has two layers of buttery crisp pastry with a generous helping of lightly sweetened blackberries in between. I love the look of this pie, with its bumpy circles of golden brown pastry that give you just a peek of the glistening fruit [...]
Peach Galettes look as good as they taste. They are a great way to showcase peaches at their prime. Each individual galette starts with a rectangle of puff pastry that is covered with a thin layer of sweet almond cream (frangipane) and slices of sweet and juicy peaches. Once they are baked in a hot [...]
When you see this Strawberry Bread, all puffed and brown, cooling on its rack, you could be fooled into thinking it is a yeast bread. Cut into it, though, and its taste and texture will tell you otherwise. This Strawberry Bread has the flavor of summer, full of juicy strawberries and chopped nuts. It is [...]
These Fruit and Nut Bars are decidedly different from the other bars and squares on the site. Crisp and chewy in texture, they are full of dried fruits (cherries, dates, and apricots) and nuts (walnuts, almonds, pecans, or hazelnuts), that are held together with a batter that contains no butter or oil, just one beaten [...]
This Chocolate Banana Bread combines the sweet flavor of ripe bananas with chocolate. I have always liked the pairing of chocolate and bananas, but in the past I have been content with just adding some chocolate chips to a regular banana bread batter. That was until I saw a recipe for a ‘Cocoa Banana Loaf’ [...]
A glistening red Strawberry Sorbet is a perfect treat on a hot summer’s day. It has a wonderfully light and refreshing flavor and grainy consistency that belies the fact that it is simply a frozen blend of pureed strawberries and sugar. Sorbets became very popular in the 19th and early 20th century when they were [...]
Tiramisu is an Italian dessert invented in the 1960’s at the El Touga restaurant in Treviso, Italy. Literally translated Tiramisu means “pick me up” or “carry me up”, which probably refers to the jolt you get after eating espresso and alcohol laced ladyfingers. It is often called an ‘Italian Trifle” because, like any trifle, [...]
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