Dessert-o-licious

Happy Mothers Day everyone! Today I made a sour cherry pie and since I’ve never made a 2-crust pie before, this was quite an undertaking. Last year, I took a pastry class at the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) in NYC and this was the first time I was able to put what I learned [...]

Last night I made apple turnovers for the first time and they came out really great! I modified the recipe found on The Repressed Pastry Chef here. I did not make the icing because I thought they were sweet enough to begin with. I also liked eating them warm, rather than the suggested cool. They [...]

I discovered a new delicious fruit yesterday called a Kiwiberry! It’s a small fruit, about the size of a grape, grown in New Zealand, that has a skin which resembles the look of a watermelon, but when bitten into it looks like a kiwi, and it tastes almost exactly like a kiwi, without the annoyance of the furry [...]