Category: Sweet Treats

Every year my lemon tree has more lemons than I know what to do with. So from mid-October til Christmas I scurry around trying to figure out what I’m going to do with them. I’ve posted several times in the past about various recipes I’ve made. This year my dig project was lemon curd. I […]

I’m a huge fan of desserts especially custard type desserts. After my stunning success making chocolate mousse in my sous vide, I decided that i should try to make another custard type of dessert in my sous vide. Given that I had loads of little lemons, I thought a lemon flavored custard would be the […]

Once again this spring my neighbor’s kumquat tree produced more fruit than any one household could consume. So she shared the bounty with me and I was overrun with kumquats. I’ve made kumquat bundt cake and loads of other recipes last year. This year I was looking for something different. Since I have a sous […]

I really love chocolate mousse but it can be kind of tricky to make because of the fact it involves custard making. If one curdles the eggs during the cooking process then the texture of the final product is completely ruined. With a lot of custards you can just sieve them. However chocolate mousse doesn’t […]

Probably the MOST difficult thing I make for the holiday boxes every year are chocolates. Some years they come out great. Others they are a nightmare. A lot of this has to do with the craps game which is Houston humidity. Jam, jellies, chocolate and candies are WAY more difficult to get right in high […]

Thanks to being overrun with lemons, I’ve been pinboarding and trying lemon recipes left and right this fall. One I decided to make a couple weeks ago was Lemon Biscotti. Biscotti are Italian type of cookie. Their name comes from the Italian for biscuit, which is what most Europeans call “cookies”. They are different from […]

My neighbor has a kumquat tree and this year it is bent over with hundreds of kumquats. So she has been giving them away right and left. I decided I’d take a whole bunch and see what kinds of things I could make with them. In order to make anything with the kumquats, one has […]

Today I spent most of my day trying to play catch up, clean up like I usually do most weekends. But at about 2:30 I decided I really needed to cook something. I haven’t posted to this blog this week and a made a “resolution” that I’d take the time to do some food writing […]

Summer here in Houston can be evil, particularly when the thermometer crests triple digits like it did for much of July. The A/C keeps things relatively pleasant but after working in the garden or going for a run, one just craves a summer frozen treat. The problem is that the treats at the store which […]

This weekend I realized just how much my freezer is bursting. One of the chief things consuming space is pears from the OMG pear tree. I harvested this years but still hadn’t gotten ride of all the ones I froze last year – meh. The issue with frozen pears is that if you slice them […]