Apartment Therapy: Dessert

Recipe: Baked Persimmons

We have been experimenting with persimmon recipes after bringing home a bagful of Fuyus from the Joshua Tree farmers' market last weekend, and we're ready to declare these baked persimmons our favorit...

Recipe: Balsamic Drizzled Ice Cream (Easiest Fanciest Dessert)

This week, to be quite honest, has been more about making a Flower Princess costume for our three year old than about cooking. We have ordered takeout both nights, my fingers have multiple stab wounds...

Recipe: Homemade Candy Corn (and Candy Dough!)

Candy corn is one of those Halloween treats that you either love or hate. We happen to enjoy those stratified orange triangles, and have been excited to try out hand at making them at home. But we ...

Recipe: Marking's Bibingka

Warning: This cake may cause a stampede. We were at a friend's party recently when out came the plate of bibingka and suddenly everyone was abuzz. It took some maneuvering to get past the mob of par...

Autumn Recipe: Brown Butter Ice Cream

There are many desserts in the fall that beg for ice cream to accompany them. Apple pies. Peach crisps. Quince crumbles. Plum tortes, tarts, and clafoutis. They all need a little scoop of creaminess t...

Step-by-Step Instructions for One-Ingredient Ice Cream

Remember this amazingly creamy ice cream with just one ingredient? Well, in our eagerness to tell you all about it, we didn't give you very detailed instructions. Here, for those of you asked, are s...

Recipe: il Buco's Ricotta Fritters with Saba

In the fall, we must confess we turn to thoughts of fried dough. Hot cider doughnuts and crispy fritters are all on the brain. So we were delighted when chef Ignacio Mattos of il Buco (we toured his k...

Cool Weather Recipe: Gingersnaps

A handful of gingersnaps, a cup of tea, and a cool fall afternoon - what could be better? These cookies are wonderfully snappy a first bite, but then melt into gingery goodness on your tongue. We neve...

Recipe: Goat Cheese and Grape Galettes

An overzealous grape-buying spree at the farmers' market last weekend led to the creation of this recipe. Autumn Royal, Flame, Crimson, Cabernet Sauvignon – all sweet and tart and wonderful, but...

Recipe Roundup: 15 Dishes To Dole Out On Labor Day

We always say we're going to make fabulous things for holiday parties with family and friends. Our heads are filled with meats that are stuffed, desserts that are tart and drinks that are cool and r...

Recipe: Faloodeh (Persian Rose Water Ice)

As we learned recently, we're not the only fans of gorgeous, fragrant rose water. This is our very favorite use for it – Persian ice, or faloodeh, a splendidly refreshing combination of rose wat...

Individual Peach Ginger Hand Pies You Can Pack for Lunch

We're not even sure we'd risk sending this to school in our child's lunch bag, lest it get traded for an Oreo. These sweet, summery, little handheld pies we'd keep for ourselves... ...

Cool Recipe: Another Really, Really Simple Ice Cream
Stay Cool!

Name: Bill Location: Miami, Florida How are you staying cool? The world's simplest ice cream (and modular ceviche)...

Hibiscus Berry Sundae
Stay Cool!

We are really big fans of hibiscus flowers in syrup; we love their tangy, juicy taste and they are so pretty too! So when we received this recipe from one maker of these pretty little things we had to...

How To Make Creamy Ice Cream with Just One Ingredient!

Yes, that's right; you heard us. Creamy, soft-serve style ice cream with just one ingredient — and no ice cream maker needed! What is this one magic ingredient that can be whipped into perfectly...

Recipe: Chocolate Mousse with Olive Oil and Sea Salt

Last week I was planning dinner for visiting friends, and I was seized by a craving for cool, creamy chocolate mousse. I had a bag of Scharffen-Berger chocolate burning a hole in my baking cupboard an...

How To Make Ice Cream Sandwiches At Home
Street Fair Food Week

Do ice cream sandwiches make you think of the fair? To us, they are the ultimate street food. Whether they are served from a booth at the county fair, or from the back of an ice cream truck that jus...

Fresh Peach Frozen Yogurt with Only Four Ingredients

Frozen yogurt is not ice cream, and it's not even a substitute, no matter what TCBY says. It's another animal entirely, and when we stop comparing it to its richer cousin, we enjoy it oh so much more....

How To Make Battered and Fried Sweets At Home
Street Fair Food Week

After the making of our funnel cakes yesterday, we sent the men of the house out for some, well for lack of a better phrase, junk food. We wanted to try our hand — just once! — at maki...

How To Make Funnel Cakes At Home
Street Fair Food Week

If we had to name the ultimate Fair Food, hands down it would have to be funnel cakes. The sweet smell of fluffy, frying bread in combination with powdered sugar is enough to make even the stronges...

Recipe: Blueberry-Oat Quick Bread

It's hard to resist picking up a pint of fresh berries from the farmer's market this time of year, so why try? This quick bread recipe uses just one cup of berries to make a tender loaf that's perfect...

Cool Recipe: Megan's Frozen Watermelon Margarita
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Name: Megan Location: Sydney, Australia How are you staying cool? Frozen Watermelon Margarita with Lime Salt...

Recipe: Back to Basics Cherry Pie

When we were in Italy in June, we stayed at a friend's house that, as luck would have it, was down the road from a fantastically fertile wild cherry tree. Each morning we'd hike up to it and fill our ...

Cool Down With A Cantaloupe Granita

A granita is a traditional Italian dessert of puréed fresh fruit, sugar, and water that is semi-frozen and then scraped or shaved. Similar to sorbettos and italian ices, granitas differ becaus...

Weekend Project: Make a Pavlova!

Pavlovas can be tricky to make when it's hot and humid outside, but they are such a good dessert to serve with fresh summer fruit that it's worth the effort! They're light and airy, sweet without bein...

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