Simple Food. Good Ideas. Great Fun.
A few years ago, my husband insisted we go to the Mt. Vernon Restaurant in Chattanooga, Tennessee for my birthday. As it had always been our tradition for the birthday person to pick the restaurant, I was not happy about going…to say the least. To try and calm me, he explained he had been there […]
Perhaps this pie should come with a warning: Beware that eating this pie may result in your not wanting any other lemon meringue pie again. Alright, I may be biased because it is one of the pies my mom made, but there have been other people who ate this pie and later said they other […]
Rhubarb seems to often get paired with strawberries. I know that it is in “season” with strawberries, but I really enjoy rhubarb in a more solo form either as a compote or or in my mom’s rhubarb “custard” pie. I must admit that the use of custard in the name of her pie recipe is […]
In honor of National Cherry Pie Day, I decided to share one of my favorite quick and easy desserts, cherry turnovers. (A turnover is a folded pie, isn’t it?…Okay, I am stretching the occasion to fit what I have already made). What makes them super easy is that I use frozen puff pastry dough and […]
Okay, this pie crust is supposed to be an easy, never fail kind of recipe. Well, I will admit that when I did follow the directions given me by my aunt, my pie crust failed. In my family, we frequently leave out leave out directions that we always do but often don’t think about. In […]
