Now that I have lavender sugar, my first experiment in using it was these Lavender Madeleines, which I have to say turned out great. I have had this worm in the back of my mind about making madeleines ever since I watched the movie The Transporter (yes, Jason Statham is one of my guilty pleasures…
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Orange Creamsicle Ricotta Mousse
My boyfriend loves orange creamsicles, so I decided to try making Orange Creamsicle Ricotta Mousse. When you have super high quality ricotta, it’s really easy to make delicious things. It only involved a few ingredients, but my boyfriend and dinner guests were very impressed by this fancy-seeming dessert. Guessipe 4 cups ricotta, drained over a…
Apple-Cinnamon Cereal Snickerdoodles
Cookbook Club – Holiday Cookie Swap As a bonus Cookbook Club event, we did a holiday cookie swap where each person chose a recipe from either BraveTart, The Cookie Collection, or Dorie’s Cookies. Then we all got together and swapped cookies, so you went with one batch of cookies and came home with a variety…
Persimmon Crisp
Our Cookbook Club tradition is to do a Friendsgiving event in November, where instead of using a cookbook everyone makes a dish that’s either a Thanksgiving tradition for them or something new they want to try this year. It’s persimmon season, and my friend recently gave me a bag full from her tree. I make…
Passion Fruit Panna Cotta
In my opinion passion fruit is an under-utilized fruit. I love passion fruit’s tropical sweet-tanginess. So I’m ecstatic that I’ve recently come across a local source for purple passion fruit. I’m using some of the seeds to try to grow my own! Until that gets going though, I used some of what I got to…
Lemon Ricotta Torte
I had made an appetizer and a savory main course with the ricotta from my friend, and I still had a few treasured cups left. So it seemed appropriate to try my hand at something sweet. Ricotta is so versatile! A crumb crust provides a nice bit of crunch to complement the creamy goodness of…
Coconut Mango Dessert Soup
I know a dessert soup sounds weird and maybe not that appetizing, but that’s probably because it has a better name that I don’t know. I once had something like this at a Chinese banquet dinner and loved it so much that I went around to all the people who looked like they weren’t eating…
Iced Coffee
My dad told me he had been adding cinnamon to his coffee grounds when he makes coffee, and it opened my eyes to the wonders of flavoring coffee before you brew it rather than just adding the flavoring afterward. It better infuses the flavor, plus you don’t get the grittiness of the spices floating around…
Mini Lemandarin Pies
A Lemandarin, also known as a Rangpur Lime or a Mandarin Lime, is a hybrid between a lemon and a mandarin orange. The tree in my neighborhood had a ton of ripe lemandarins in December. I’m told they’re great for making marmalade, but since they’re a bit like sour oranges or Meyer lemons (which you…
Honeyed Persimmon Cake Topping
Whenever cake comes with the typical sugary frosting on top, I do my best to scrape off as much of the frosting as I can. It’s just too sweet for me and doesn’t have any other flavor. But did you know that you can use a simple mixture of Greek yogurt and honey to make…
Key Lime Pie Parfait
I got an impromptu invite to dinner at a friend’s place and needed to throw together a dessert quickly and with whatever I had in the house. This came out tasting just like key lime pie in a cup. This was such a hit and so fast to make that Key Lime Pie Parfait has…
Buttermilk Pie
Can I tell you one of my food pet peeves? I don’t understand why buttermilk comes in quart containers… why Why WHY??? I’ve never seen a recipe that uses more than a cup of buttermilk at a time, and yet I’m forced to buy four times that amount. It makes me crazy and I hate…