Category: Dessert
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Easy Microwave Lemon Curd
I know, I know—I just wrote a post about lemon curd tarts, which happen to be one of my favorite desserts. Lemon curd is delicious on toast with tea, as favored by the Brits. It’s a great cake filling. I think it would be fun to hide a dollop of lemon curd inside a blueberry muffin.…
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My Cheatin’ Tart–Bodacious Lemon Curd Delights
If you’ve been visiting my blog, you know I love to cook with produce from my garden. There is something so satisfying about cooking with fruits and vegetables that you’ve had a hand in growing. This year, we were thrilled to harvest our first true crop of Meyer lemons. And what a crop it was!…
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Quick and Easy Lemon Icebox Pie of Love
My husband has fond memories of his mamma’s cooking. For a while, Gigi even catered parties in Savannah, Georgia, and many of my family’s favorite recipes come from Gigi’s recipe files. By the time I came on the scene, she was more than willing to let me do much of the cooking, but she was…
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Blackberry-Peach Crisp
Every Sunday afternoon, I swear I’m going to clean out my closet. In fact, when I go so far as to write down a list of what I should do, cleaning out my closet is always in the top three, right along with organizing the junk drawer and cleaning the “self-cleaning” oven. The problem is…
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Ethel’s Meyer Lemon Chocolate Tart
My husband doesn’t often indulge in sweets, but he has always had a special fondness for one certain Ethel M chocolate. Lemon Satin Cremes. A rich, dark chocolate on the outside, the filling is an unbelievably yummy lemon creme. The combination of dark chocolate and sweet, zingy lemon is sublime. He used to bring those chocolates home when…
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Party Favors and a Recipe for Candied Pecans
We are preparing for a big feast this week! I love big feasts, don’t you? This year, the cottage will be full to the rafters with family and friends. We’ve got some love and romance going on, some big challenges, and some adventure, too. We have very interesting guests…artists and stylists, lawyers and builders, IT…