What’d You Do Last Weekend?

I'm sure you still have mint in your garden, so why not try to make your own mint chocolate chip ice cream? Cacao nibs stand-in for chocolate chips in this grown-up version.
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Italian Creme Cake

Posted by jenny on 08/10/2010
Italian Creme Cake

Over the years, I’ve been known to rummage through used book bins in search of out-of-print gems. I’ve got some victory garden cookbooks, and plenty examples of ‘modern cooking’ books that proclaim the wonders of microwavery and a balanced meal of meat and potatoes. I especially enjoy finding old regional collections – usually from ladies’ clubs, rotaries, churches – when they’re the genuine article and not just simple reprints of the box recipes from Kraft products.


Tropical Carrot Cake

Posted by jenny on 06/09/2010
Tropical Carrot Cake

When my friend Sarah wrote that she was looking for a good carrot cake recipe, it occurred to me that I don't really have one in my repertoire. My family was never big on carrot cakes, so I never got one passed down from Granny or any of my baking aunts. But not wanting to let Sarah down, I went on a hunt for something a little different. I figured everyone had a standard carrot cake recipe, but I wanted to find something that I hoped would make that wedding cake she's working on a real showpiece.


Coconut Cream Pie

Posted by jenny on 05/03/2010
Coconut Cream Pie

When I was a kid I spent many lunches walking through the Piccadilly Cafeteria line admiring their pies. Southern cafeterias were always well-stocked with good pies, even when the rest of the meal options were just on par. I remember marveling at the sugar beads forming on the tops of chocolate and lemon meringue pies, and loving the smell of nutmeg in their baked custard cups. But their coconut cream pie was something to behold. While the jello parfaits got Cool Whip, the Coconut Cream Pies got the real thing, or at least the real thing from a can.


Gluten-Free Graham Crackers and Nanaimo Bars

Posted by jenny on 01/27/2010
Gluten-Free Graham Crackers and Nanaimo Bars

The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca.


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