simple cheese and apple salad

simple leek and potato soup with ham for chilly spring evenings

Coffee custard tart … creamy coffee custard on a nubbly, crisp coffee shortbread crust

Salted date pie … a slice of soft, nuanced caramel

Brown butter almond cake with homemade citrus jelly

heady sweet date balls {and lessons from merriam park}

Champagne jelly

crustless quiche with bacon, gruyere, fat whole asparagus spears, and leeks & roasted sugarplum tomatoes

banana cream pie … with an extra thick nutmeg graham cracker crust

maple sugaring at a small family farm and cooking up some vehicles for this amazing maple syrup

a creamy bilberry fool for april fool’s

fresh sheep’s milk ricotta doughnuts with warm orange honey & cinnamon

quick chicken fricassee with olives & broken cherry tomatoes

whipped fresh sheep’s milk ricotta with frozen blueberries … a cheese course died and gone to heaven

graham cracker pancakes

meyer lemon mascarpone muffins

four-minute chocolate chocolate cake for one

creamy orange chocolate muffin pudding

orange muffins studded with dark chocolate