Of you are looking for cheap desserts, Depression style rice tart can fit the pie pan.
Seriously, I am looking through my vintage cookbooks more and more these days, especially those published around the time of the Depression through World War II. Those women had to feed their families on limited funds and limited ingredients. More and more, as grocery prices seem to swing out of control I find that these old recipes work great for me.

I was skeptical about this rice tart. It seemed a little weird to me but I had several cups of left-over rice that needed to …read more

Or something  like that.
Basically, we are talking about a butter cookie crust, filled with rich bittersweet ganache, topped with a cloud of delicately flavored lime cheesecake, and then embellished with the ripest of ripe raspberries, with a quick raspberry coulis poured over the top.
Did I say over the top?

This was better than good. The main problem was that the kitchen was hot and by the time I got the pictures taken the slice I was shooting had begun to look a little droopy. After all it was a good 95 degrees in the kitchen, and I was losing light fast.

That is an amazingly long title..but Vanilla Caramel Truffle Tea Tart is harder to say than it is to make, seriously.  First of all nothing mysterious about the flavor.  I made it with a Lipton Vanilla Caramel Truffle tea infusion.  The flavor is absolutely amazing …I am almost at loss for words to describe it.  Almost.

Rich caramel with a vanilla midnote melting into black tea flavor on your tongue.  It is very complex, very sweet, very rich, and very good.  The filling is light and creamy, just the way a mousse should be, meltingly rich texture to compliment the flavor …read more

I am literally on my way out the door for another appointment, and will post when I get back.  I realized I never posted the recipe for Vanilla Caramel Truffle Tea Tart!  So…I will be doing that this afternoon.  In the meantime..have a look at these images, and drool..

images:(c)maryeaudet 2009

This was the second time I could participate in The Leftover Queen’s Food Joust. Last month I was the ne that picked the ingredients so I stayed out of the competition.
This month’s ingredients were: Lavender, pears, and white chocolate. The minute I read them I was thinking puff pastry. and creme anglais. Today after church I came home and put the dessert together. AT this moment in time there is not one crumb left. Not one. It was an amazing combination, and I hope you will try it. If you use the frozen puff pastry sheets rather …read more

In a very short time I have to take my husband into the VA hospital for some check ups on how he is doing. The VA was basicaly created to remind those of us who served in the military what it was like to wait frustratingly long times to not have our needs met. However, it is a necessary evil today.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to get time to bake at all and then I remembered that I had seen some wonderful things around the internet lately..Some of these blogs are going up on the …read more

Here are the pictures! Thanks Marc!!

I will post pictures of this in a bit. You see, there has apparently been a mutiny in techni-land and my computer is not speaking to my camera. Even my husband, who is the computer fixer in our family, has been unable to mediate between the two. He has graciously and wonderfully volunteered to take my camera to work and load the pictures on his laptop when he has time and then emailing them to me. As soon as that happens pictures will magically appear on today’s recipe. Life is good.
Anyway. In my …read more