Ricotta Hotcakes; a recipe

“But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.” -Ernest Hemingway, “A False Spring,” A…

Crepes!

Crepes!

I have a cookbook, the name of which I shall not disclose at this time, which has a recipe in it for crepes. The introductory paragraph for said recipe never fails to crack me up. I have been known to…

Churros with Hot Chocolate Sauce

I toyed with the idea of calling this post, Churros, Chocolate and the joys of being bored. Because right now, I am bored, bored, bored. Bored. This is not the most bored I’ve ever been, but I tend to think…

Summer Peach Pie

Let me begin this post with the disclaimer: I will get to the pie. Now, after scanning the worldwide web, and finally joining Facebook (after a stupidly long period of resistance) I have been becoming more and more exposed to…

Chocolate Malt Layer Cake

This chocolate malt layer cake was created for my Sister, who may or may not have passed it off as her own cooking. It consists of layers of devil’s food cake, malted chocolate buttercream, and mucho mucho crushed maltesers sprinkled…

Perfect Vanilla Ice Cream

Vanilla Ice Cream is a dessert which is so easy to get wrong. One wrong step and it’s bland, boring, hum drum. It’s difficult to impress with vanilla, because everyone’s had it, and therefore everyone’s an expert (or so they…