Dark Chocolate Chip Pavlova with Strawberry Whipped Cream
This has been an exciting week for me! I am so happy to let you know that I am going to write a second cookbook! It will be another book about pies, because you can’t have too much pie I suppose, but this book will be different than the last in that it will focus on gourmet ingredients and high-end flavors. I have a pretty tight deadline for this one but I am confident I can get it all written in time. To celebrate I decided...
Chocolate, Coconut, and Red Curry Crème Caramel
Things are going to get a little freaky-naughty. While I was in Seattle attending IFBC I had the opportunity to try various kinds of Theo Chocolate. One particular flavor, the Coconut Curry Milk Chocolate, was astoundingly good. I’m not kidding when I tell you it was the best bar of milk chocolate I had ever tasted. There was creamy, sweet milk chocolate, crisp flakes of coconut, and a subtle spice from the red curry. Bliss...
Banana Bread Pudding
A few weeks ago my husband and went to see the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. You know, the one hit wonders from the 90’s? They were playing at the House of Blues in Dallas and I could not resist. I love swing music so much I even took swing dancing lessons in college. We decided to go ahead and have dinner at the House of Blues before the show. Because we had a little extra time before the show began, and because I love...
Southern Banana Pudding
Nothing is quite like homemade, from scratch, banana pudding. Sure, you can make a passable banana pudding with instant pudding mix, but if you really want to taste something special make your custard from scratch. Once you do you will never use a box of pudding again. Besides, taking about ten minutes to cook the custard and four hours to chill, it is so easy. Many traditional recipes for banana pudding use flour as a...
Butterscotch Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce
I’ve discussed inspiration here a few times, and I admit mine comes from the strangest places. This bit of inspiration hit in my local grocery store’s rather dismal bakery section. Let’s be honest, grocery store bakeries are bleak places stuffed with pre-fab cakes smothered with greasy icing, cookie pucks, and pies with what can best be described as watery crusts. So, right about now I bet your wondering where I...
