No-Bake White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake and a Hunt for the Pefect Gas Oven

Whew….what a mouthful of a recipe title! Although compared to other cheesecake recipes I’ve done in the past, this was the easiest by far…and it made a deliciously wicked dessert, a perfect ending to any meal.

Strawberries and Cream

    Sometimes, the best desserts are the simplest things you can come up with, like this bowl of  marinated strawberries with whipped cream.  It took so little effort, yet the result was stunning and delicious.

Mixed Fruit Cobbler

    I was going to try this recipe for a Peach Cobbler and bought some nice-looking peaches at the supermarket.  For some reason, there were a couple of peaches missing from my fruit basket when I was about to start on the cobbler the following day. I did the next best thing and dug into my freezer to see if I had… [Continue Reading]

Homemade Maple Walnut Ice Cream

    I finally made it! My first homemade ice cream.  It’s based on Haagen Dazs’s Black Walnut ice cream I previously posted about.  In that post, I noted how the flavor was like regular walnut with strong maple overtones.  Even with black walnuts so rare, I knew this flavor could be replicated somehow using… [Continue Reading]