My husband LOVES lemon pies. He cannot get enough of them. To make his day cheerier and try a daring new recipe, I baked for him (and work colleagues) an almost fat-free vegan lemon pie. The original recipe comes from Susan at Fat Free Vegan, who shares this recipe, alongside another for calamondin pie. Her…
Fig Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
For Father-in-Law’s birthday celebration, we took him out. “Out?” you say, “What’s so great about that?” Well, this was a huge event for us. You see, F-i-L has been pretty much bedridden for nearly two years and has not peered past his own fence but in an ambulance. Needless to say, we (and Brother-in-Law) were…
Figgy Layer Cake
Last weekend I baked up a lovely fig-filled cake for a friend’s birthday. This is the friend you may remember mentioned in previous posts, for whom I’ve been creating a file of vegan recipes to accomodate her stomach’s unhappy reception of dairy products. After reading through my list of cake flavors, she chose fig. I…
You are the sunshine of my life!
We met last summer on a warm, sunny August day (or was it July?) He was there waiting for me beneath the overflowing petals of the hanging basket above our lunch table when I arrived…with Mom and Grandma. Was he terrified? Nervous? Ready to scramble out the country barn-turned-gift shop-and-restaurant door? Not at all. He…
