Category: baking

Bake a peach tart today. »

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The compulsion to bake on a blistering hot day »

I went pear picking with my sister, Liz, oh about 10 days ago with the goal of baking a pear pie from the harvest. Well I finally got around to it, thanks again to Liz, who turned me on to this recipe from Gourmet magazine. The pie wasn’t half bad if I do say so [...]

Foraged Fruit Tart: Back to (baking) basics »

Ok so the fruit was actually foraged from my brother’s backyard and I had to climb the trunk of the tree and reach up to the top to find any apricots that were sufficiently ripe for the tart. But it was so worth it! A few weeks ago I was inspired by a recipe I [...]

Recipe for a perfect blueberry pie »

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } blueberry pie, originally uploaded by alicethelma. It’s the of winter but as chance would have it, I had a couple of bags of frozen blueberries in the freezer from last summer’s harvest. In the [...]