by Heather Sheire | Feb 23, 2011 | Bars & Brownies, Sweet
These are my favorite lemon bars because they are really tart, the crust is crisp and the ratio of crust to lemon is just right. Not too much crust and a whole lotta lemon. If you aren’t a fan of really tart lemon bars, there is a less tart option, but this is...
by Heather Sheire | Feb 21, 2011 | Gluten Free, Salad
This is the kind of fancy salad that you usually only find in a restaurant, but you can make very easily at home. Sour and sweet, crunchy and tender, this is my kind of Winter salad! Try it at your next dinner party or just for you, because why not? The original...
by Heather Sheire | Feb 18, 2011 | Bars & Brownies
You are a lucky duck because today, I am going to reveal to you one of my super secret best-of-the-best “go to” recipes. These bars are tender with a little crunch from the almonds with layers of flavor from the apricot and amaretto that throw a little...
by Heather Sheire | Dec 11, 2010 | Cake
English Plum Pudding aka Christmas Pudding is one of those super delicious, super impressive and super easy desserts. To Americans, the name can be fairly confusing because its not a pudding, its a cake…and there are no plums in it. You see, in England, pudding...
by Heather Sheire | Dec 6, 2010 | Bars & Brownies
Ever since I made cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving, I’ve been thinking about how to use those same flavors in a dessert. Tremendously sour in their raw state, cranberries reveal a wonderfully complex flavor when combined with a little sweet…and booze....
by Heather Sheire | Dec 3, 2010 | Pies & Tarts
As a native Pacific-Northwest-kind-of-girl, it’s a part of my Holiday traditions to bake a blackberry pie. Picking the wild berries with my father back in Washington State is one of my treasured childhood memories. Where I grew up near Seattle, blackberry...
by Heather Sheire | Oct 13, 2010 | Breakfast, Cake
I am haunted by memories of the coffee cakes I enjoyed in my twenties. I grew up near Seattle and attended college in Portland, Oregon. The cold in the NW is different from the cold in Virginia. It’s wet and sinks into you more deeply. In Seattle or...
by Heather Sheire | Sep 27, 2010 | Gluten Free, Ice Cream
So I had all these very ripe bananas and it was too hot to make…you know what. That thing we all make when we have the overripe bananas. So I searched the interwebz for some alternatives and came across a post called One-Ingredient Ice Cream at thekitchn.com....
