Desserts

Recipe: Homemade Eggnog

December 6, 2011

I’m trying not to be resentful but a certain celebrity llama has more Twitter followers than I do. And his first name isn’t Dali. To be fair, the llama is a talented goat herder, so I can see the appeal. Why all the fuss over a shaggy camelid? Polka Spot belongs to the Fabulous Beekman [...]

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Recipe: Walnut Rumballs

December 5, 2011

Walnuts are the hard-done-by, neglected middle child of the nut family. Between the mature and established almond, with its fancy frangipane and marzipan pastes, and attention-grabbing, TV-diva baby of a macadamia (I’m looking at you Roseanne!) walnuts are easily overlooked. Sure, you can find them huddled in a corner with the maple syrup, but have [...]

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Recipe: Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Doughnuts

October 19, 2011

May I drop another name this week? How about Jess Thomson? She’s an award-winning food writer, a photographer and a recipe developer who once completed a marathon recipe-writing stint by producing a recipe a day — for a whole year. I wouldn’t be surprised if she flew helicopters or designed subway systems in her spare time. Her [...]

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Apple and Tonka Bean Crisp

October 4, 2011

No peaking. Just answer the question. What are tonka beans? Are they: a) a line of kids’ toys b) an ancient Polynesian percussion instrument c) urban slang for “I don’t care”

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Recipe: Butter Rum Pound Cake

September 16, 2011

I was going to post this on Monday, September 19th, official Talk Like a Pirate Day. But I used up all my lame pirate jokes back in 2006 when I needed a tie-in for my rumball recipe. Despite getting so tipsy spliced t’mainbrace sampling the rum-laced glaze that I came this close to bellowing out a sea [...]

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Recipe: Black Cherry and Raspberry Galette with Walnut Frangipane and Ginger

September 11, 2011

Do you really need me to write out the instructions with a recipe title like that? Clearly I didn’t name the dish with Twitter in mind. Instead, I created this for my parents’ anniversary. When asked what he wanted for dessert, Dad requested a “red galette.” After a bit of probing, I learned this was [...]

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Recipe: Pavlova

September 2, 2011

If you asked me to describe my father’s taste in desserts, I’d tell you he’s a lemon man. When he turned 65, Mom and I baked 13 lemon meringue pies for his party. He squeezes fresh lemon juice into his tea and sometimes even orders lemon pie as an appetizer when we dine out. He [...]

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Recipe: Roasted Strawberries

September 1, 2011

Writing about strawberries in September seems unreal to me. When I was a kid, September meant corn. Cobs and cobs of hot corn slathered in butter. Strawberries ushered in the summer holidays. They didn’t close them.

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Recipe: Rhubarb and Raspberry Galette

June 6, 2011

Technically this is an original recipe. But like all dishes, its initial creative spark came from a patchwork of ideas. The pivotal concept, pairing rhubarb with raspberry, came via David Lebovitz, who posted a link to Lottie and Doof, who got it from Bon Appetit. With rhubarb on hand and some of last year’s raspberries [...]

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Recipe: Triple-Chocolate Brownie Cookies

May 24, 2011

This is Mairlyn Smith. Like me, she has a frequently misspelled first name and a passion for chocolate that borders on illegal. She even has an impossibly small kitchen (like mine was until last year). I had the pleasure of interviewing her earlier this month and the longer we talked the more I realized we [...]

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Recipe: Raspberry Peach Frangipane Pie

April 28, 2011

While the daffodils have finally poked their heads through the earth, my freezer remains packed with containers of frozen fruit squirrelled away from last year’s harvest. They’re so precious to me, I save them for special occasions. Very special occasions. As along as the sooty, deathless snowdrifts maintain a Narnia-like hold on the Earth, nothing seems [...]

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