Mixed Berry Tart with Lattice and Flower Crust
Fresh, local summer fruit is beginning to appear at the farmer’s markets, but not fast enough to furnish a fruit pie, so I tapped into my stash of Trader Joe’s frozen mixed berries and cherries. I had a hankering to play around with a complex latticework...
Mixed Berry Curd Tart
I’m always eager to use up the excess egg yolks that are the inevitable byproduct of making Swiss Meringue Buttercream Icing (always much in demand around here). Unlike egg whites, yolks don’t freeze as well, I had a bag of Trader Joe’s mixed berries...
A Jewel-Toned Table with Roasted Plum Tart
“Apples, Peaches, Pears and Plums, tell me when your birthday comes!” Does anyone else remember jumping rope to that rhyme? It often pops into my head in late summer when overflowing farmers’ markets send me scurrying into the kitchen, eager to...
Can She Make A Cherry Pie, Billy Boy?
Oh, where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Oh, where have you been, Charming Billy? I have been to seek a wife, she’s the joy of my whole life But she’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Can she...
Poached Pear Pistachio Tart
Earlier this month, we invited some friends over for dinner at the Cape, and I wanted to make a dessert that was somewhat virtuous but with a hint of decadence. (The nearly universal donning of the January culinary hair-shirt gets a bit depressing). I thought about...Follow Us
