
easy summer berries
I love serving fresh fruit as an easy summer dessert. I usually just make a fruit salad out of whatever looks good at the grocery store or farmers'…

how to: freeze peaches
Shortly after we moved to New Jersey we were out for a drive and passed a farm that had pick your own peaches. We decided to stop and ended up with…

lemon curd tart
I love lemon curd because it is the quintessential sweet-tart dessert. We had a dinner party this week, and I decided that a lemony dessert would be…

peach, basil, & vanilla ice cream
I believe that it was last summer that I first heard of mixing peaches and basil together. I had started growing basil on the windowsill of my…

plum-almond tart
[Note: This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but for some reason it didn't go up. Have a great weekend!] I rarely cook…

raspberry lemonade
I had some leftover raspberries from my chicken with savory raspberry coulis, and decided to make up a batch of raspberry lemonade. It couldn't be…

spiced applesauce
I've been making a big batch of applesauce every fall since I was married. We would typically go apple picking and end up picking way too many…