Bananas are often overlooked here in Costa Rica as a fantastic basis for many desserts. Sure, we have our share of banana breads, but that’s it. This pie takes two very prolific tropical fruits and melds them into a sensational specimen of a pie. Most people have had banana cream pies or coconut cream pies,…
Chocolate Fig Pie- an adaptable charmer
If there was one pie in my recipe stash that could woo the toughest of critics, this might just be it. In fact, it is so versatile and delicious that I could toss all other pie recipes (except Husband’s beloved lemon pie). Look no further, folks, this is it, chocolate pie that trumps all others….
(Almost) Fat-free Vegan Lemon Pie
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…
Pretty in Pink Chocolate Cream Tarts with Raspberry Mousse
My two recent blog love finds are by French food stylists. I picture Bea and Helen sipping cafe au lait at a chic open-air bistro plinking away at their keyboards formulating the latest fashionable recipe. Their blogs are artistic, elegant, and full of the some of the most dazzling photography that I’ve seen. Brimming with…
Carmel Apple Turnovers
Still trying to make the best use of my 5kilos of dulce de leche, today’s recipe is for messy gooey caramel apple turnovers. Flaky pie dough hugs a tender filling of 3 varieties of apples, sugar, spices, and dulce de leche. Though I’m not yet an expert at picture-perfect empanadas, tarts, or turnovers, let me…
Numar Course
Tiramisu Ingredients This week I attended a desserts course at the largest margarine company around. The class was entitled “Especialidades para el Dia de la Madre” and focused on sweets for Mother’s Day, celebrated here in late August. The course was intended for pros who buy loads of products from the company, but the friend…
Country Cooking
Last week, I had an unfortunate flop with my Old Fashioned Cream Pie. You can read about that in an older post. Good new is that this week’s OFCP came out wonderfully! I combined 2 recipes and ended up with this:Sugar Cream Pie aficionados may notice that it looks a little different than the norm….
Pie Crust Heaven
Humid, sunny, mid-summer- In the last weeks of July, the county fair is in full swing. Ferris wheels, fried pickles and other unpalatable foods, children playing tag underfoot, fuzzy white rabbits awaiting their fate to the next winner of a darts game, wafting scents of elephant ears, funnel cakes, and (ahem) carnies. At the county…
