It’s peach season and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they hold out long enough for me to can some for winter. In the meantime, here’s the peach gelato that made me swoon, if I do say so myself. Ever wonder what the difference is between ice cream and gelato? Sherbet and sorbet? As far […]
Entries Tagged as 'dessert'
Preserving Summer: Peach Gelato
August 21st, 2009 · 8 Comments
Tags: at market · dairy · dessert · fruit · recipes
Cooking Julia with Kids: Blueberry Clafouti (and a film review)
August 7th, 2009 · 12 Comments
The new film Julie & Julia opens tonight, and if you have even a passing interest in food and cooking I highly suggest you catch it. If you haven’t seen the trailer (or book or blog), it’s a Nora Ephron film about a girl, Julie Powell, who decides to cook and blog her way through […]
Tags: at market · cooking with kids · dessert · foodietots reviews · recipes
Bourbon Cherry Cobbler
July 10th, 2009 · 130 Comments
A Southern Cherry Cobbler Recipe: The sour cherries we bought from Toigo last weekend went into a July 4th cobbler. I started with a recipe from 101 Cookbooks, the wonderful blog whose author is also responsible for the “Super Natural Recipe Search” button you may have noticed over on my left sidebar. I made a […]
Tags: at market · baking · cooking with toddlers · dessert · grains · one local summer · organic · recipes
Banana Mini Cupcakes with Chocolate Hazelnut Frosting
February 6th, 2009 · 6 Comments
We were invited to a toddler pre-game playdate on Super Bowl Sunday and brought these mini cupcakes. The bananas added enough sweetness that I was able to reduce the sugar in the recipe by half; the frosting of course more than compensates for the not-too-sweet cake. I called it Nutella frosting, but I actually used […]
Tags: cooking with toddlers · dessert · recipes · sweets
Holiday Treats from Jennifer of The Toddler Cafe
December 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Holiday Treats from Jennifer of The Toddler Cafe
The fourth installment in our foodie family Holiday Treats series is with Jennifer Carden, of Novato, California, who writes at The Toddler Cafe and has published a book by the same name. You can also follow her on Twitter, where she wrote recently of her daughter, “Kidlet is frosting my b-day cupcakes scooping out the […]
