Strawberry Kisel with Crème Fraiche and Russian Farmer Cheese Cookies
My late grandmother on the maternal side was very creative. In a lot of ways. But the one my younger sister and I seemed to care about the most as kids was her ability to whip up sweet treats in no...
View ArticleSimple Watermelon Recipes for Lazy Summer Days
People, watermelons are at their sweetest, sugariest, juiciest best! At season’s peak! Seedless and seeded, round and oblong, green, striped, and yellow, these berries are in every grocery store like...
View ArticleFresh Strawberry Ice Cream with Mixed Berry Sauce, Mint, and Pistachios and a...
I thought we left the 2013 strawberry season behind when we headed out from Florida to Reno, NV in early May. You can imagine my delight when I learned the first time I went to a local farmer’s...
View ArticleCitrusade by the Flask
I’ve been going to farmers’ markets religiously for the last month or so. I rotate my weekly trips between Downtown Saturday Morning Market in Carson City, the Grove at South Creek, and the Summit...
View ArticleMixed Berry Frozen Yogurt
Do you guys know what I miss the most about Florida besides family and friends, of course? I miss summer afternoon storms. The whole drama of an impending weather disturbance, thunder, lightning,...
View ArticleA Tale of Strawberry-Pistachio Meringue Cake, Mountain Breeze, and Duck Eggs
Every weekend or so, the strong summer heat of the high desert drives us out of town. Lake Tahoe’s ever-cold waters and the neighboring Sierras’ abundant hiking trails provide shade, cool, and diverse...
View ArticleBlack Raspberry Clafoutis –Запеченый Заварной Малиновый Крем
Clafoutis . . . Clah-FOO-tee . . . Black Raspberries from Jacobs Family Berry Farm As much as I love the way this French dessert sounds (in fact, so much that if I say it one more time, I will be...
View ArticlePaleo Lemon-Basil Cream and Dark Berry Tarts
patrick’s mountain grown berry farm I hardly think that the dead of winter is the time for a bright and sunny post like the one you are about to scroll down through. But as things rarely turn out...
View ArticlePaleo Petits Fours
This whole summer, I have been crushing hard on doughnut peaches. You might also know them by the names of Saturn peach, saucer peach, Chinese flat peach and many others that are all indicative of this...
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