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Jamie Oliver’s Chocolate Pots

Jamie Oliver’s Chocolate Pots

I enjoy cooking for friends and often have grandiose ideas of menus for fancy dinner parties. But in the end I like cooking dishes that are delicious but simple. These chocolate pots, served with lemon polenta biscuits, are a perfect, elegant, and easy way to end a...

Mom’s Lemon Bars

Mom’s Lemon Bars

It's been many years since we lost our Mom. I think of her often and am glad that I have so many wonderful memories of her. Not surprisingly a fair number of memories are connected to food and the kitchen. As Mother's Day approached I kept looking for the one recipe...

Flourless Chocolate Cookies

Flourless Chocolate Cookies

I'm a little late to the party but I've developed an obsession with Pinterest. It feeds my love for delicious recipes and often inspires me with beautiful food photography. Everything is stored digitally, is organized, and is searchable. I love it. I found this recipe...

Black Pepper Ice Cream

Black Pepper Ice Cream

Updated July 31, 2022 To accompany the Sticky Toffee Pudding at our latest Feast, I made a Black Pepper Ice Cream. The puddings is traditionally served with vanilla ice cream. I wanted to make something a bit more "chefy" and turned to David Lebovitz's book The...

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Updated July 31, 2022 This morning I'm still relishing the memories of yesterday's Moveable Feast. The theme was one close to my heart (and stomach), British Gastropubs. As soon as I saw the theme I knew I wanted to claim dessert. Sticky Toffee Pudding ranks as one of...

Nigella Lawson’s Peanut Butter Squares

Nigella Lawson’s Peanut Butter Squares

Lately I've been revisiting recipes I made awhile ago. One of those recipes comes from my first Nigella Lawson cookbook, How to Be a Domestic Goddess. I remember when her first television program, Nigella Bites, started airing on the Style Channel. Being an...

Coconut Tapioca and Apple Banana Pudding

Coconut Tapioca and Apple Banana Pudding

When I was home in December we found some beautiful apple bananas at the farmer's market. My sister decided to make a coconut tapioca pudding with some of the bananas added in. The dish isn't terribly photogenic but it's yummy. Apple bananas The pudding starts with...

Chocolate Haupia Pie for a Crowd

Chocolate Haupia Pie for a Crowd

I'm back in Hawaii enjoying the warm weather and time with family. I'm also, as always, enjoying the foods I can't get on the mainland. Getting together for dinner with family last week I offered to make a dessert, one that I was craving and had a general idea of how...

Ginger Shortbread with White Chocolate Drizzle

Ginger Shortbread with White Chocolate Drizzle

This year I participated in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, an event now in its third year. The concept is pretty simple, food bloggers from several countries submit their information to the organizers. For a small fee each blogger is matched with three other...

Quindim (Brazilian Coconut Flan)

Quindim (Brazilian Coconut Flan)

Moveable Feast: Brazil Last weekend we celebrated the foods of Brazil at the Summer 2013 edition of Moveable Feast. This cuisine is unfamiliar to me but as I researched I came across a recipe for Quindim (pronounced keen-deem) or Brazilian Coconut Flan. I was...

Kahlúa Pecan Pie

Kahlúa Pecan Pie

Moveable Feast: New Orleans Another Moveable Feast has come and gone leaving only good memories and food comas. The theme of this feast was the foods of New Orleans. We started with Sazaracs, raw oysters, and Oysters Rockefeller. We then moved on to the...

Okinawan Sweet Potato and Haupia Pie

Okinawan Sweet Potato and Haupia Pie

Updated September 2021 One of my favorite desserts when I'm home is made from Okinawan sweet potatoes, macadamia nuts, and coconut milk. With the exception of the sweet potatoes, all the ingredients are pretty easy to get on the mainland but it's something I really...

Buckeye Balls

Buckeye Balls

Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. My immediate family was always close and there are so many memories that make me smile and little things that say to me, holidays, family, and love. My sister has done a great job of keeping alive the...