Dessert
Ramekin Cherry Cobbler
February 12th, 2012 • In RecipesRamekin Cherry Cobbler When you have a recipe that’s so easy a first grader could do it but it tastes like your great great grandmother from Sicily invented it you treasure it, keep it, frame…
Pineapple Upsidedown Cake
January 16th, 2012 • In RecipesRevisiting one of the greats, I made this pineapple-upside-down cake for the cafe the other day and just have the share this recipe. Recipe sounds as if there’s actually some detailed steps that needs to…
Blackberry Cobbler
January 10th, 2012 • In RecipesThere is no easier recipe I could give you than this. Granny made many desserts and cooked most of her life. But when I came into her life she was on her last leg so…
Chocolate Raspberry Rum Sauce
December 21st, 2011 • In Recipes, Simple Classy SeriesYou have all your shopping done, don’t you? It’s likely most of you have your refrigerator stocked, and your Christmas tree up, gifts all wrapped, and you’re sitting back in your favorite chair with your…
Strawberry Freeze Cake
August 29th, 2011 • In RecipesThere are a few paths that led to this recipe but the main one is that it instantly reminds me of a vague gathering at someone’s house when I was too small to cook in…
Sinfulness
June 26th, 2011 • In Recipes, Simple Classy SeriesLet me introduce you to my new summer fling. Nope, it’s not a man. And hey, it’s not even food–er not exactly anyway. If you consider chocolate a food then yes, my fling does include…
Creme Brulee’
February 22nd, 2011 • In Recipes, Simple Classy SeriesSome days at my cafe are leaps and bounds more fun than other days. And then there are those days that are just plain ordinary turned astounding. As we prepared food for the customers…
Pie Crust Cookies
October 25th, 2010 • In RecipesShow me a kitchen and I’ll show you the heartbeat of any home. A recent trip for a couple of days out of down proved everything dies or at least smells like something died when…
Chambord Pie
July 11th, 2010 • In Recipes, Simple Classy SeriesThere are moments in my life where a reality check is necessary not only necessary but crucial to my well being. And not just any ol’ reality check will do. The fact is a gratefulness…
Brownie Pops
July 6th, 2010 • In RecipesOne minute you’re having a discussion with your son in the car (for some reason we seem to talk more in the car) and the next minute life hits you like a car going 40…