I love this simple soup, it has only a few ingredients, is easy to make and is surprisingly good. The roasting of the beets, pumpkin and the carrots gives this soup great depth of flavor. This recipe is adapted from Josh and Brent with Beekman 1802, I love their earthy take on foods. As they say about it: “We’re gonna be honest.… (more…)
The best cake I have ever had is my grandmother’s plain cake. We called it plain because that’s what it was and how it tasted, with its simple off-white crumb and a top that was a tad sweeter, wetter, a thin layer of velvet that always stuck to the wax paper when it was lifted off. Its real name, I… (more…)
Now that the weather has finally plodded into something resembling fall, soup season is officially on and what better way to ease ourselves into it but with something hovering in the delicious middle-ground between broth and stew. This middle ground is important, mind you, if you are the kind of person who likes your soups hit up with an… (more…)
Today I looked at Buddy and thought “I need to make him something special”. He loves cookies, so I made him his own homemade cookies. The recipe is very easy and can usually be made with ingredients that I always have in the kitchen. I am much happier knowing exactly what is in his treats and food, so this gives… (more…)
Bittersweet Chocolate and Strawberry Cake Strawberry Summer Cake is one of my favorites, I make it all the time, I began to think about how I could do something different with it (not that it needed something different to be done with it), the Strawberry Summer Cake is nothing short of magic, the way the cake rises up to engulf… (more…)
Nectarine Golden Cake This is a great, every-day cake. The kind you can make on a whim, when you have an unexpected guest, or when you are absolutely keen on having home-made dessert, but are feeling slightly lazy in the baking department. Except, the cake is sort of more impressive than the sum of its parts (my favorite trick!) as… (more…)