Some recipes are just so good that they are just a standby that everyone expects. I have been asked many times for my chocolate chip cookie recipe – I refer them to the Nestles package. The same goes for my standard pecan pie – it’s on the corn syrup bottle or at the Karo website. […]
Tag: Food Photography
My favorite time is around the holidays and I’ve begun my annual holiday binge – an excuse to bake without restraint! This year I’m also making a mini-cookbook with recipes for the ones I use as gifts. I intend to have it ready soon and will post each item as I go, but I really liked this picture and didn’t […]
Cook’s Country recipe for Lemon Pudding Cake.
Recipe and photographs of Basil Gruyere Souffle
Many people think only of ice cream in the warmer months, but as a child, my dad occasionally made it in the winter, with snow and the old-fashioned hand crank machine. Of course, living in the desert now, there isn’t much snow and I have a nice electric model but I still love home-made ice cream. […]
Recipe for Apple Peanut Butter Cheesecake
This dessert was inspired by a recipe I saw in Food & Wine magazine, Lemon-Blueberry Cheesecake Parfaits. My kids are not big fans of blueberries and red seemed like a better holiday color, so I substituted dark sweet cherries. I also decided to use the Cranberry & White Chocolate Shortbread recipe from the Joy of Baking with […]
I made this as we were having some friends over for dinner. I took these before the guests arrived, intending to take some pictures of individual slices later (there were only 5 of us so I assumed there would be plenty left). However college son had a couple of his friends over later to watch a movie after […]
This is a recipe from David Rocco, VILLA MARIA’S LEMON TIRAMISU. I still had some of the limoncello that I made a while ago so I decided to try this one. The ingredients are simple, eggs, cream, sugar, lemon, limoncello, white chocolate and ladyfingers. I did find that the ladyfingers I bought must have been too soft […]
Recipe and instructions for making a White Chocolate Wedding Cake for a small wedding