Posted in citrus, custard, dessert, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on May 14th, 2009
You know how a lot of citrus recipes warn you to be careful not to get any of the white pith when you zest the fruit, because it’s bitter? Well, guess what? Bitter is good. This was my first whole lemon dessert, where everything but the seeds is included. It was simple. Blend sugar and [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Apr 28th, 2009
Chocolate cream tart seems like an appropriate way to cap off this month of chocolate, with a bitter chocolate crust and rich chocolate pastry cream balanced by lightly sweetened whipped cream and topped off with decorations of pure bittersweet chocolate. It’s a good thing that I don’t get tired of chocolate or have problems with [...]
Posted in bread, chocolate, custard, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Apr 21st, 2009
My first bread pudding experience involved Dessert Envy, when Dave and my brother and I went out for dessert and beer a few years ago. I ordered something rich and chocolately and otherwise unmemorable, and my brother ordered pumpkin bread pudding. I had one bite, my first taste ever of bread pudding, and was immediately [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Apr 7th, 2009
Poor Dave. His favorite dessert is banana cream pie, and I just don’t make it very often. For one thing, it’s kind of a lot of work, what with the crust and the pastry cream and the whipped topping. (Okay, so whipped cream isn’t hard to make. But still.) Plus, it doesn’t have a long [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, dessert, fruit, gluten free, healthy, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 10th, 2009
Well, I didn’t intend to choose an unpopular dessert for Tuesdays with Dorie this week. I was picturing a satiny, lemony pots de crème-type custard. Obviously I didn’t pay enough attention to the ingredients, which, with just milk, whole eggs, lemon zest, and sugar, in no way indicate that this custard would be rich. Sorry, [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 10th, 2009
When you make a commitment to bake a recipe every single week, some of those weeks are by necessity going to be half-assed. It’s not that I’m any less interested in floating islands than any other dessert – it sounds tasty, and it’s definitely not something I have experience with – it just happens that [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 16th, 2009
Like a lot of Tuesdays with Dorie members who joined the group late, I plan on eventually making all of the recipes that I missed. Why not? I make those thirteen recipes (down to nine, now), and I will eventually have baked through the entire book. How cool is that? There were just two recipes [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, french, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 6th, 2009
This tart had everything going against it. For one thing, I wasn’t in the mood to make a three-part dessert. For another, Dorie says that it’s supposed to be eaten the day it’s assembled, and I had my doubts that Dave and I would be eating the whole thing in one day. But that worked [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Dec 23rd, 2008
A few years ago, a group of my friends got together and did a whiskey tasting. We compared a few different whiskeys of varying quality. At the time, they all tasted really strong to me, but I think that was the turning point of when I started to actually like whiskey. And butterscotch, which, by [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Nov 25th, 2008
Laurie, the administrator for TWD, gave us the option of blogging about the Thanksgiving Twofer Pie, a combination of pecan and pumpkin pie, on Thursday instead of Tuesday, under the assumption that some of us would be making it for Thanksgiving. I tried to imagine my family’s reaction if I offered something so untraditional after [...]
