Passion Fruit Ice Cream Recipe

After staring down this ever growing bowl of passion fruit for a week, searching passionately for passion fruit recipes, I decided to make my own recipe. This is a creamy-smooth, less-sugar, custard-style homemade ice cream that walks the line between sophistication...

Daisy’s Rules of Pie

Pie is the best. Or the worst. Like so many things, a good pie is GREAT, and a bad pie is terrible. When something has so much potential, sub-par renditions are made execrable by comparison. I hear so many people say they don’t know how to make pie, and I think...

Columba di Pasqua–Re-post

Note:  This is a repeat of a recipe I try to re-post each year.  I want to make another one this year.  (And guard it better from certain people this time). This is a fun Easter bread, Italian style. It’s basically just a rich egg bread decorated with almond...

How to Make the Best Snow Ice Cream

I suppose I should have known I was tempting fate when I declared our last snow/sleet as the Last Hurrah of winter. We got about 4 inches of perfect, fluffy snow last night, and today had snow ice cream written all over it. Encouraged by one of my brothers (who got...

Rustic Berry Tart

This is less of a real recipe than an excuse to post pictures of berries. They’re just so beautiful.  And so special. I love berries and they’re packed with nutrition. The strawberries were first, then the black raspberries, and at last the blackberries...