DESSERT

Life’s Simple Pleasures

Waking up this morning and checking www.weather.com to find that New York is going to be blessed with clear blue skies and a high of 90˚ is, to me, one of life’s simple pleasures. Summertime in the city is a whole different ball game from its counterpart in Southern California. I grew up with the...
Simply Citrus

Simply Citrus

  Citrus Season Means… MEYER LEMON CURD It is officially Winter in Manhattan. Ah the sounds of sniffling noses, boots(or if you are Flannery and I, heals) slipping and sliding on the ice covered pavement, and if you are lucky the silence right at the beginning of a snow storm. The two of us were...
Snicker....what?

Snicker….what?

  …. SNICKERDOODLE! As far as I am concerned, cookie baking should not exist soley during the Christmas season. For it is in churning out a batch of homemade sweet treats that a person can find true and utter joy. I bake cookies year round, however, depending on the season my longing for particular cookies...