Vegetable Buying Guide First Rule – Demand Freshness! Hints and tips on choosing the freshest produce at the market.  Learn how to get the most for your money and how … Continued

  Low fat – Low calorie – Diabetic friendly recipe Diet Baked Ginger Custard is a delicious low fat version of my Old Fashion Baked Custard.  This delicious custard recipe … Continued

Crema Fritta Fried Cream recipe is a spectacular dessert that is well worth the effort for the impressive results.  This is a modern and very easy-to-make version with the addition … Continued

If you love Fig Newtons then you must try making Fig Pecan Pie for your next holiday gathering. I first tasted this delightful fig pecan pie on a trip in … Continued

 How To Make Machine-Free Ice Cream Easy Chocolate ice cream is so good – better plan to make a double batch!  No appliance (ice cream maker) required when making this … Continued

Dulce de leche, pronounced DOOL-say duh LAY-chay) is a luscious sweetened milk sauce that is literally finger-linking good!  The name means “milk sweet,” “milk jam,” and “sweet milk sauce.”  Dulce … Continued

Coffee Jelly gives you the punch of a cup of coffee in a delicious dessert –  Surprise your guests with this delicious dessert. This interesting and great tasting gelatin dessert … Continued

Baked Alaska with Mocha Sauce is so easy to make that your guests will think you spent a lot of time preparing it for them.  This dessert is a simple, … Continued

In some parts of the United States, pecan pie is a Thanksgiving tradition.  This Chocolate Pecan Pie is taken above and beyond the usual pecan pie’s corn-syrupy incarnation.  A layer … Continued

Cheaters Chocolate Souffle This Chocolate Souffle recipe is foolproof and very easy to make.  The traditional souffle recipe scares me as they sound too complicated and can be a real … Continued

Chocolate Rum Cream dessert requires no cooking (apart from melting the chocolate) and is so extremely easy to make.  Your family and friends will love this Chocolate Rum Cream dessert. … Continued

Dark Chocolate Flan is absolutely perfect for all chocolate lovers!  Since I am a chocolate lover, I want to share with you one of my favorite desserts.  I know you … Continued

 Capers, Capparus Spinosa Capers, Capparus Spinosa are pickles made from the unopened flower buds of the caper shrub (Capparis spinthe – closely related to the cabbage family), a wild and … Continued

Roasted Beet Bread Pudding was an interesting experiment using roasted beets.  I had an over-abundance of beets to use this year that I had roasted in my oven.  Now, what … Continued

This wonderful Banbury Tea Tarts recipe was shared with me by my husband’s aunt, Lila Scheer of Vancouver, WA.  Lila wrote a recipe column for seven years for the Chinook … Continued