Reviews of recipes & restaurants in Connecticut and beyond
A holiday or a special occasion or simply just a Tuesday, any day is perfect for a piece of pie. If you love pie as much as I do then you know that something as simple as a pie can actually be quite complicated because not everyone gets it right. Yet an excellent piece of […]
MorePie. The word alone or combined with other wonderful words like Jes’, apple, blueberry, chocolate, banana creme, peanut butter, or pecan grabs my attention. Make it a la mode and you have a culinary masterpiece, unless you’re a pie purist (and on some days I am just that) and then a piece of pie by […]
MoreThick, creamy, and smooth in texture, Lemon Chess Pie is a southern dessert that is full of flavor and easy to make. Consisting primarily of four ingredients – sugar, eggs, butter, and flour – chess pie exists in multiple forms, but the lemon version is the one I chose to try for my first attempt […]
MoreThe Christmas holiday season is one of my favorite times of year. I cannot wait to bake cookies to my heart’s content and share them with loved ones. The smell of a live Christmas tree in the house makes me happy and nostalgic. The wrapping, sending, and receiving of packages puts me in the holiday […]
MoreIt’s almost here. It’s so close, can you feel it, smell it, or better yet, can you taste it? It’s almost time for pie and cobbler, for warm baked apples after apple picking, and for selecting that perfect pumpkin from the pumpkin patch for carving jack-o-lanterns. It’s almost time for dragging your feet just a […]
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