A recipe for rich mini tea cakes spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, and chocolate tea leaves. These are begging to be made for tea time or a breakfast brunch. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - … [Read more...] about Chocolate Spice Tea Cakes: Fair Trade for Mother’s Day
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Mango Habanero Hot Sauce
A smooth and balanced sweet and spicy hot sauce recipe featuring habanero chili peppers and Ataulfo mangoes. I have really good intentions. I mean, honest to goodness, heartfelt intentions like sharing hot sauce recipes and coconut cod tacos before May 5th. Intentions, … [Read more...] about Mango Habanero Hot Sauce
Spring Vegetable Chicken Pot Pie
This recipe for chicken pot pie is packed full of spring vegetables in a creamy white wine sauce and served up on a bed of baby arugula. I did not grow up in a pie household. One of my very first memories – when I had only one year and several months behind me in life – is … [Read more...] about Spring Vegetable Chicken Pot Pie
Lavender Lemon Sablé Cookies
A recipe for rich, decadent sablé cookies with a bright lemon and lavender glaze. I carry you with me into the world, into the smell of rain and the words that dance between people, and for me, it will always be this way, walking in the light, remembering being alive … [Read more...] about Lavender Lemon Sablé Cookies
Lemon Meringue Éclairs: Baking as Therapy
A recipe for lemon meringue éclairs where choux pastries are filled with lemon pastry cream rather than vanilla, and for their topping, they get a healthy pile of whipped meringue before being toasted under the broiler and then consumed en masse. My frustration falls, hot … [Read more...] about Lemon Meringue Éclairs: Baking as Therapy