Category Archives: Sweet

Little Bit of Old Fashioned Loving

This cake is super easy, really the toughest thing was prepping the pan. It’s a perfect balance of tart and sweet, elegant for tea and a perfect crumb for a picnic. Almost too perfect, I found myself snacking on it instead of lunch. Every so often I come across a recipe that reminds me of...

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Chocolate Raspberry Torte

Not like there is any mystery that I love chocolate, but I’d realized that I hadn’t yet created a torte recipe. What better than Valentine’s week to do the dessert cart? Generally, a torte is a flourless cake, often using bread crumbs or ground nuts in it’s place, resulting in a dense and intensely rich...

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Happy New Year

After planning for an elaborate post in celebration of the Chinese New Year, the rat in my house got me to thinking, and snacking. Even with a theme of popular Chinese food items, I found myself, along with my son, just peeling and popping lychee fruits. One after another, our hands getting stickier, I couldn’t...

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Red Grapefruit Curd Filled Donuts

Heading out with the intention to create a citrusy tart flecked with the essence of rosemary or cardamom, I started out with a super red grapefruit curd for the filling. Anyone who reads here regularly, might have noticed I’m a bit of a red grapefruit junky. I’ll slip it into dishes where ever it fits....

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Cinnamon Rolls

It’s a crazy thing that I’m about to admit to. For Christmas, I got a new stove. No, it wasn’t a Garland or one of those hot little Bertazzoni numbers, just four burners and a functional oven. Finally. It’s embarrassingly amazing how used to baking in a toaster sized convection oven I’d become. In fact...

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