A Summer Classic: Recipe for Tomato Tart I am going to share a secret with you. I love all things tomato when they are cooked. The secret is I hate raw tomatoes. I have never loved the taste of a fresh tomato off of the vine, which I know many people love. My grandmother used…
Casseroles are pretty much standard comfort food, and a midwest staple I have been informed by my friend Amanda over at Midwest Nice. Casseroles tend to have meat in them (from what I have seen), so, as I live with a pescetarian, I decided to make this comfort food classic safe for vegetarians. I now…
This recipe for cheesecake bars is quick, easy, and beyond delicious. It is a joy for all who eat them. We moved! It was a quick but tumultuous process. We have left Virginia and moved to Maryland to a beautiful house that is 200 years old. It is smaller than what we had so we…
No churn ice cream is the quick and easy way to make your favorite summertime dessert. No churn ice cream is everywhere I look on instagram these days. My friends Amanda and Anita have both made really delicious recipes, (all of their recipes look beautiful and delicious) that they inspired me to jump in on…
“Anyway – Harry,” said the giant, turning his back on the Dursleys, “a very happy birthday to yeh. Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.”– Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Harry Potter cake from Hagrid Here we are! The last post of our Very Potter…
“There were shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable. Creamy chunks of nougat, shimmering pink squares of coconut ice…” –Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Aka this coconut ice cream recipe inspiration. One of the many sweets that is mentioned in the Harry Potter series is pink coconut ice. When I sat…
“What she did have were Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.”– Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Pumpkin Pasties- so ubiquitous in the Harry Potter Universe that in Harry Potter and the Deathly…
“Mrs. Weasley had sent him a scarlet sweater with the Gryffindor lion knitted on the front, also a dozen home-baked mince pies, some Christmas cake, and a box of nut brittle” aka Mincemeat pies recipe inspo.– Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban It has come to my attention that mince pies or mincemeat pies are…
