Custard Apricot Tart Recipe. All Stone Fruit Variations
Apricot Tart: I've got just the thing for you!
That is, if you are, as I am, crazy about all stone fruit! This is a delicious way to celebrate summer bounty, and fruit desserts are simple and wholesome, and make the whole house smell like flowers…
Apple Crumb Pie Recipe. Berry and Stone Fruit Variation.
Apple Crumb Pie
Here’s is the all-time American favorite! No crust, all fruit and crumb, oozing with juicy and tart deliciousness! It is as easy to make as the proverbial.... apple crumb pie! One of my favorite comfort foods. And all…
Recycling Challah Bread in Style: Mock Baba Recipe
Baba
The beloved French yeasted rum-soaked pastry.
It is also labor-intensive, so I enjoy it wherever I find a delicious one all ready for me.
Challah Leftovers = Mock Baba!
No problem! I just turned humble Challah leftovers into…
Chocolate Dipped Strawberries Recipe
Chocolate Dipped Strawberries is hardly a recipe:
Just a wonderful gift from yourself to yourself and a few dear friends, deliverable at the drop of a hat.
Luxurious, and gluten-free without even trying.
Everyone loves chocolate dipped…
Cheese Babka Recipe. Optional Topping
Cheese babka like this one?
You won't find it in any commercial bakery, let me tell you flat out. In this cheese babka, the ricotta filling is wonderful, but you might prefer to use it in combination with farmer cheese and/ or cream cheese,…
Zuppa Inglese Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Zuppa Inglese is not a soup at all
Rather, it is an affectionate take on what Italians see as a favorite British dessert, closely related to trifle.
The traditional Zuppa Inglese uses cream and eggs.
As always with desserts known as containing…
Moroccan Almond Cookies Recipe. Ghriba. Vegan.
Almond Cookies
We Moroccans love anything made with almonds, whether in cooking or baking. These crescent-shaped almond cookies are a great Moroccan favorite, called ghriba. Consider them theMoroccan cousins of shortbread cookies.
Traditionally…
Fig Tart Goat Cheese Recipe
Fig Tart with goat cheese!
Add to this winning pairing rosemary and honey! Rustic, funky and unpretentious elegance.
My Fig tart is easy to make the gluten-free way too:
You could use any flour you like!
No cooking wine or cooking sherry…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars Recipes. Gluten-Free
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
My chocolate Peanut Butter Bars were originally meant as celebration: I wanted to mark the occasion with a special treat, when my granddaughter Musia was told she was no longer allergic to peanut butter. And…
Moroccan Spicy Nut Truffles Recipe
Nut Truffles
They are for nut lovers only. All others need not apply. Sort of like the famous Pfeffernusse, only Sephardi style. Moroccan, to be exact. They make a perfect gift too.
Move over chocolate, and enjoy your day off: you’re…
Almond Macarons Recipe. All Variations
Much ado about Macarons!
You will never think of macarons as institutional fare after you taste these elegant and easy treats, close cousins of the amaretto cookies, and distinct from the often institutional coconut-based macaroons.
Gluten-free…
Bread Pudding With Caramel Sauce Recipe. GF Friendly
Bread Pudding
What wonderful way to use leftover bread! Goodness Knows we have plenty of good bread lying around quite often: perfect way to breathe new life into it, and elevate humble ingredients. We love this unpretentious and rustic…