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Late Summer Early Fall Fruit Salad
Late Summer, Early Fall Fruit Salad Serves 4 As we move from summer into fall, which is my favorite season of the year, summer fruits are just starting to pass their peak. Peaches from the Carolinas, for example, can be somewhat firmer and sourer than those bought earlier in the season. With this easy to…
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Wild Blue Berry & Thyme Cheese Cake
Wild Blue Berry and Thyme Cheese Cake Serves 8 to 10 I love to bake. When I was working in Newcastle over 30 years ago, I used to make all the desserts for the Fisherman’s Wharf seafood restaurant on the quayside below the Tyne Bridge. Three days a week, I’d drop of cakes, desserts, and…
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Coffee & Walnut Cake
Coffee & Walnut Cake My mother used to make a delightful coffee cake using “camp coffee essence,”a thick black chicory coffee syrup. I loved the coffee aroma. It would fill the kitchen as soon as the cap was removed. We all knew that coffee cake was being made for tea. These days, I make one…
