Tag: desserts

Lemon Curd

Lemon Curd

A few years ago, we purchased a small Meyer Lemon tree. We keep it indoors in the winter, and move it outdoors in the summer. It has suffered from both neglect and over kindness, and has weathered its share of damaging hailstorms. Yet every year 

‘Crazy’ Chocolate Cake

‘Crazy’ Chocolate Cake

This was the very first cake I made on my own when I was a kid. Since then I’ve baked a lot of chocolate cakes – most of them fancier and more complicated (especially after watching an episode of Bake Off ). They haven’t really been 

Crepes

Crepes

We’ve been on a bit of a crepe-fest around here. I’m not sure what prompted it, but possibly it was just that I found a recipe that was simple and never failed. It’s so good in fact, that the teenager in the house used the 

Banoffee Pie

Banoffee Pie

I’ve had many dinners out in my lifetime, but for some reason, one specific meal I had more than a decade ago at a little restaurant on the south coast of England sticks in my mind. No doubt due in part to dessert – a