Category Archives: Dessert

May Bookclub

For May’s bookclub book, we read Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunee. None of us particularly loved the book, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t up to the caliber of some of the other books we have read. It was a lot like Eat, Pray, Love in my opinion. . . and I though Eat, [...]

Coconut Mango Ice Cream

Thai Fresh is one of the many wonderful eateries in Austin that is focused on using local ingredients. In fact, part of the store is an old style grocery – selling anything from local sausages to hard to find Thai ingredients. The owner offers many cooking classes to teach people the delicious ways of Thai [...]

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

Get ready for the zucchini recipes. My garden is in fully swing producing them so I’ll be cooking a lot of them! First up, zucchini bread. I had actually never made zucchini bread before – mainly because I didn’t really grow up eating zucchini. In fact, I don’t think it was until college that I [...]

Neiman Marcus Cookies

You may remember a certain fictitious e-mail regarding Neiman Marcus cookies circulating through e-mail back in the mid 90s. Years ago, I made these cookies and they are delicious, I would like to make them again. But that’s not the point of this post. The point is that Neiman Marcus has a different cookie recipe [...]

Salted Caramel Ice Cream

The first ice cream I tried from Cooking Light’s ice cream recipes was just ok – too sweet. You would think I would have learned from that! I think you guys know my propensity for salted sweets by now, so I was sucked into this recipe pretty easily. Again, it was good but would have [...]

Homemade Thick, Chewy Granola Bars

It took me long enough to post about these! I made these quite some time ago and really enjoyed them! I love how versatile the recipe is, as you can sub whatever nuts and dried fruits you have on hand or are your favorites. Next time, I am adding dark chocolate chips! This time I [...]

Banana Ice Cream

I am ashamed that it has taken me so long to try this. ASHAMED. Seriously. This may be the only one ingredient recipe I ever post on this site, and it’s worth trying. I mean, it only requires one ingredient and it’s a cheap ingredient. You could even buy it organic and it would still [...]