We were headed to friends’ house for dinner and I needed to whip up something for dessert. We had some leftover homemade vanilla ice cream from the weekend but I wanted something to spice up the ice cream a bit… I decided to make some chocolate covered strawberries.
They’re so easy to make (and I almost [...]
I had a whole pineapple in the fridge that i haven’t used and its on the verge of going out so I knew I needed to eat it tonight. Decided I’d spice it up a bit and grill it to eat with some of the homemade ice cream that’s still in the fridge. I came [...]
Saturday evening, 6 family members joined us for dinner. Its been awhile since I’ve made any sort of cake so I knew what I wanted to make for dessert. I grabbed my cookbook to find my Grandmother’s recipe for Texas Sheet Cake… I knew I had the perfect dessert for our BBQ. Our cousins ohh [...]
My sister-in-law came to visit this weekend from school. Not thirty minutes after she arrived she asked if I’d make her some Pumpkin roll. I know how much you miss home cooked food when away at school, so we ran off to the grocery store to get supplies so I could send her home with [...]
Taro root is a potato-ish tuber. Its got a hairy brown skin (reminds me of a soft coconut) and and a grayish-white/purple-tinged flesh. It has a slightly nutty flavor when its cooked. In itself its not really sweet, but you eat this with sugar and its yummy! This treat was something I grew up eating [...]
I had a couple peaches sitting on the counter that would be bad tomorrow morning if I didn’t do something with them tonight. The only thing I could think of that sounded good was cobbler, but I’m not really in the mood to do that much baking. So instead i came up with this creation, [...]
Dark Chocolate Ice Cream is BY far my favorite ice cream. I loooovee dark chocolate. This is the first recipe we’ve tried for dark chocolate and it was really good!
Dark Chocolate Ice Cream
INGREDIENTS:
1 c. Dutch processed Dark cocoa powder
2/3 c. granulated sugar
1/2 c. packed brown sugar
1 1/2 c. whole milk
3 1/4 c. heavy cream
1 tsp. [...]
