Month: April 2026

Among other things, for me, Spring means deciding if there is anything I’d like to enter in our local county fair. I started submitting entries to the Culinary Arts competition in 2018 (when my husband convinced me to enter my Prickly Pear Lemonade Pie). Over the years, I’ve entered...

These delicate blue-tinted macarons are inspired by the “Nevarro Nummies” Grogu famously uses the Force to steal from a fellow student in Season 2, Episode 4: “Chapter 12: The Siege” of The Mandalorian. While the on-set prop version reportedly had very little flavor, these are packed with bright lemon...

These rich, fudgy, intensely chocolaty cookies are the perfect way to use sourdough discard. While discard recipes often lean toward pancakes, waffles, quick breads or muffins, the subtle finishing tang imparted by the sourdough is an unexpectedly perfect foil for rich, complex chocolate. If you have discard to use...

If you’re the kind of person that loves to dunk your chocolate sandwich cookies in an ice-cold glass of milk you’re probably also a Cookies ‘N Cream ice cream loyalist – which means this cheesecake is a dessert tailor made for you. It is a tall, velvety vanilla cheesecake...

This Salted Turtle Fudge Pie is a decadent twist on a classic candy. It eats like a mashup of a traditional Southern fudge pie and a pecan pie — a thick, rich, dark‑chocolate custard on the bottom, a buttery caramel loaded with toasty pecans on top, and just a...