I had some lavender left form the various cooking and baking competitions and roundups that included it last week and I wanted to use it. Needing a quick dessert today I decided to make alight snack cake with lavender..but which basic recipe to use? Lavender is a citrus-floral flavor that is distinct enough to overpower too delicate a taste but delicate enough to be overpowered its self. I always think of white gloves and roses and red transferware teapots when I think of lavender desserts and I wanted something that would absolutely live up to my expectations.
But…I was also …read more

I am getting in the mood for Autumn, and the holidays, not because the weather has been cool and rainy..because it hasn’t! We are hovering around 100 today again with high humidity that makes you want to suck the air into your body through a straw.
But the color of the light is starting to change. Autumn light has a golden cast to it..and it is beginning. I can feel in myself the changes that I grew up with in Pennsylvania/New Jersey..the turning of the leaves..the first gentle fall breezes..the smell of leaves burning, and the sound of …read more