teacher by day - chef by night
Summer in a Glass How many of you grew up on those frozen juice concentrate cans and thought that was as good as juice or lemonade or punch got!? Then, one day, you tried fresh squeezed lemonade made with real ingredients and your life changed …
Patriotic Fruit Cookie Cake – take some simply delicious Sugar Cookie topped with a light layer of Cream Cheese Frosting on pile on the freshest fruit you can find and you have a classic dessert sure to disappear. Fruit Pizza, Sugar Cookie Cake, Fruit Tart, …
Before we get too far – can we just stop and admire how beautiful these are…
Wait, no – don’t go! I was afraid to make these too. I mean I can pipe frosting onto a cupcake, but a ROSE – yeah, I didn’t think so. The amazing thing is though – instead of going up and starting the piping from the outside like I do with a cupcakes, you just need to start at the center and keep it flat. Then you have a rose and then people are amazed. Ok, so you are thinking “Rachel – it is not the ROSE that scares me, it is the making of the MERINGUE”. It’s ok dear reader… I was scared of that too! Once again though, trust me – it is way easier than it appears! Whip those whites, add the sugar & pipe (or plop) onto a baking sheet.
Now that we have everyone’s fears (mine included) out of the way – lets admire these beauties again…
Spring is in the air. Summer is right around the corner. You struggle to eat breakfast every day. You long to spend long days dancing in the summer breezes. If you can relate to any of those statements, and maybe even like getting caught in the rain …
Cauliflower seems to be the “it” vegetable of the year! For most of my life, cauliflower was the leftover vegetable on a veggie tray, the soggy and lifeless when boiled, or just ignored on the grocery store shelves. Recently Kale and Heirloom Vegetables and Spinach and …
Thick, Creamy and Filling Soups are exactly what we crave on cold days. The way that this snowy winter has been, it seems all we want are delicious soups. If we indulge in every creamy soup craving, one might think that all we are going to fit in by spring are our sweatpants! I love my sweatpants as much as the next person (I’m writing this post in my sweats right now), but luckily for all of us – creamy and delicious soups do not need to ruin our wardrobe!
Let the sweatpants be a choice and not a requirement. This soup is creamy and filling – but just happens to have the creaminess provided through the use of cauliflower. 2014 seems to be the “Year of Cauliflower”. And I say, why not!? Cauliflower, its your turn to be the “it” vegetable, and why not; we are discovering your amazing variety of uses!