by Daisy | Dec 29, 2016 | Breads, Dessert, Recipes, Snacks & Sides
If you’re like me at this time of year, you’re one table full of sweet, highly-refined and fatty treats from running for the hills to subsist off roots and berries. But there is one more culinary hurdle to leap before the party season takes a breather: New...
by Daisy | Sep 3, 2016 | Dairy Foods, Dessert, Recipes
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...
by Daisy | May 5, 2016 | Dessert, Recipes
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...
by Daisy | Apr 2, 2015 | Breads, Dessert, Recipes
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...
by Daisy | Mar 5, 2015 | Dairy Foods, Dessert, Recipes
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...
by Daisy | Jun 13, 2013 | Dessert, Recipes
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...