I am so excited about this recipe for a whole bunch of reasons: 1. it’s a no-bake cheesecake 2. beside the crust (I used Nilla Wafers you can really use any cookie you want), this cheesecake has only natural sugar added from pure maple syrup and the frozen peaches 3. it’s a freezer pie and I […]
Baked Apple and Oat Hamantaschen
Got my creative juices flowing this year when my son came home from his great-aunts house talking about how he had the best baked apples ever! Sure, I will definitely get her recipe, especially because I know she doesn’t pour sugar on everything and that always makes me happy…but I started thinking about how fun […]
Beet Glazed Brisket
Yes, you are reading that correctly. It says beeT, not beeR. Before I tested this recipe for the first time, I actually went online to see if any beet glazed briskets actually existed and Google kept showing my briskets braised and glazed with beer instead. Always a good sign, right??? I figured maybe I should […]
Fresh Apricot Cake
It’s apricot season now (hello July) and that means you’re going to get the most amazing juicy sweet apricots at your local grocers now!!! And FYI, size does matter so go for the smaller apricots because they are definitely more flavorful and less tart than the larger ones. I bought a huge bag of apricots […]
Lemon Lavender Scone Cake
It’s my birthday and I’ll make a scone cake if I want to!!!! Okay, let’s go through a few of the birthday cakes on my blog because some of them make me laugh (those pictures from old posts, oy) and others I wish I could be eating right now. I’ll let you guess which is which. There’s […]
Coconut Malabi with Grapefruit Curd
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you definitely know all about my pop-up dinner collaboration with Chef Bryan Gryka, Executive Chef at Milt’s BBQ for the Perplexed in Chicago, and Chef Albert Bijou, manager at Courtside Grill in Long Island. The short story is that Bryan and Albert decided together that Bryan would be […]
