It pains me to say it, but my husband doesn't really care for pie. It's something about the fruit-to-pastry ratio. However, I love to make pie because it's fussy and fiddly and when you get it right, it demonstrates a lot of technique. The fact that I gravitate towards more difficult recipes probably makes me unusual among cooks. A galette, ...
Top 10 Things I Saw at the Fresh Summit
Thanks to Kitchen-PLAY and PMA for including me in this year's #TeamFreshSummit. As part of Team Fresh Summit, I have received compensation from Sun-Maid, Valley Fig, Outrageously Fresh Produce, and Hurst's Berry Farm. All opinions expressed here are entirely my own. I just returned from Atlanta where I spent the weekend at the Fresh Summit, ...
Apricot Tea Cake
My family's lack of enthusiasm for apricots frustrates me. Peaches, nectarines, plums, cherries - all the other stone fruits they will eat with gusto. (Stone Fruit, by the way, is the name of my rock band.) Apricots, on the other hand, will sit in the fruit drawer until I come along and turn them into a dessert. (You might ask why, in that case, ...
Beginner Peach Jam
We have all had the experience of watching our farmers' market or CSA fruits and vegetables start to get a bit long in the tooth as the week wears on. Maybe you bought two quarts of peaches thinking you would make a cobbler and then time got away from you. Maybe the member of your household who you can usually count on to eat all those cherries ...