All moms struggle with perfection and trying to cram it all in. I’m learning how to LET IT GO…
Tag: desserts
dark cocoa brownies
Recipe from Alton Brown. They are amazing! If you like dark chocolate you MUST make these! I made them for our SB50 party and then again for Easter. Comments include “they are sooo dark” (they look almost blue!), “you can only eat just one” (they are so rich) and my personal fav “those brownies are insane!”…
orange liqueur olive oil pound cake with pomegranate glaze
The main inspiration on this one was a special gift for a dear friend’s birthday- the ideas started flowing remembering a rum cake the previous week at another good friend’s party (could I do it without a bundt cake pan and with another liqueur and get similar results?), having access to a very old bottle…
One can of pineapple transforms- pizza that sizzles and dessert that satisfies
I love pizza. There I said it. I admit it. I could eat it often. But I don’t because well we all know the reasons why- it’s not healthy or good for you to do that. And I’ve rarely like “order-in” pizza- with the exception of Paxties in SF- but that’s expensive and takes a…
Boozy fruit filling for kolaches (photos)- Heritage Love part 2
The photos that weren’t showing up in my last post… here they are! Boozy Fruit Filling… I cannot tell you how to start off the boozy fruit, but I’m sure you can find hundreds of postings online how to do it. My friends method took a few days start to finish, and there’s rules about…
Heritage Love- the kolache project- just like gram’s, kinda. Part 1= overview and boozy fruit filling.
I’m super excited as shortly I’m going to embark on what I consider a “heritage” trip to both Poland (Krakow) and Czechoslovakia (Prague and hopefully a few outside cities). This is a bucket-list trip for me and came to pass via a friend traveling for work. Expenses on the low side (minus expensive flight there),…
