greek yogurt pie with an oatmeal streusel crust
Duuuude. This weather needs to get a grip. Any traces of snow lingering from the storm that paralyzed Atlanta just a handful of days ago were erased by the 67-degree weather we enjoyed today. It was ...
peach and blueberry crostata
We have a peach tree at the end of our driveway, right next the mailbox. A few weeks ago, the limbs were straining under the weight of a full load of ripe, juicy peaches. A few days after that, I ...
almond cake with fresh apricots
Six months in, I'm starting to realize that 2012 has struck a nerve. I'm feeling a bit out of sorts, prone to ridiculous projects like tearing all the carpet off the stairs (you know, to stain ...
vegan banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
I need to add an Aggression category. There's a recipe in Eli's great-aunt's cookbook for Aggression Cookies that I've mentally bookmarked. The opportunity to try them hasn't yet arisen, though. ...
fig, blueberry, and almond cake
I'm a lucky girl, and not just because a lovely, rustic colander filled with Gawgia figs and freshly-plucked blueberries mysteriously made its way onto the kitchen counter. I'm feeling ...
fig and raspberry cheesecake bars
Did you know that figs play nicely with almonds, anise, brown sugar, caramel, cheese, chocolate, cinnamon, cinnamon basil, citrus peel, coconut cream, Cointreau, cornmeal, cream, cream cheese, ...
fig bars, part deux
Do you know or maybe even love someone who has celiac disease? Perhaps you should give them a hug. Or, you could present them with these fig bars. And, yeah, maybe give them a hug, too. ...
fresh fig bars
Figs will always bring to mind a late summer evening spent at an enchanting victorian house tucked just in the woods behind a sprawling pasture. Years ago, it was lovingly hacked to pieces and ...
banana bread
I kicked off my blog with a post in which I swore off banana bread forever. A string of failed recipes had left me jaded. Well. I should have listened to Zack. He told me I should try ...
blackberry, lime, and honeydew tart
This was supposed to be the sixth and final post in a series of frozen desserts, but the pictures of mint ice cream I took last year are hurting my eyeballs. Fresh mint ice cream is awesome. There's ...
yogurt pops
We're getting deep into summer here; 'tis the season of popsicles and blackberries and cherries. By chance, I happened upon a recipe for yogurt pops at orangette and a stack of dinosaur-themed ...
strawberry-lemon sorbet
Though the window air conditioning unit we recently purchased has most likely saved our lives, we're still not quite immune to the evil temperatures lurking just outside our door. And this is ...
strawberry shortcakes
It was a beautiful afternoon for a country drive out to Washington Farms to pick strawberries. As I was walking down the dusty road from my car to their open-air white picket stand I could smell ...
coconut mango cake with fresh strawberries
Let's say you went on a 100 kilometer bike ride through the countryside. Let's say it's your birthday. Let's say you're a lunatic who raced 80 laps around a 1 kilometer course at speeds approaching ...
orange-cornmeal cake with strawberry-rhubarb compote
Spring has sprung, and that means a couple of things. Strawberries. Rhubarb. Feeling like a creep because you're crouched in the azalea bushes with a camera when the FedEx guy pulls ...
not banana bread
Almost a year ago to the day, I was on a quest for the perfect banana bread. Ideas for a blog were floating about my brain, and a bunch of bananas were rotting on the counter. My mission became ...