I’ve been hinting at desserts with moonshine for quite some time. The problem with moonshine is that you’re not likely to remember the things you were doing before you drank it.  It is quite possible that I’ve made ten desserts with moonshine and only photographed this one.  Oh, and this one, too. Moonshine (also referred [Click to Continue Reading...]

What’s sorghum syrup?  I’m so glad you asked.  It’s a sugar syrup made from the sorghum plant.  In Texas we call it milo.  We feed it to dairy cows.  In California, where water flows forth like a sweet miracle, we feed our dairy cows alfalfa.  Texas is not blessed with enough water to grow high [Click to Continue Reading...]

My favorite thing to do this time of year is to go apple picking with my girlfriends.  However, our version of apple picking involves eating every single apple dessert on the menu of a small road-side stand and buying bags of already-picked apples.  This is to ensure that we have plenty of time to stop at the [Click to Continue Reading...]

The ingredients of an apple crisp are very simple, yet this was one of the hardest recipes for me to scale down to two servings.  The problem lies with the apples:  a single apple does not give off much juice.  The only reason a typical apple crisp is juicy is because it’s filled with 6 to [Click to Continue Reading...]

Harvest is in full swing here ’round these parts.  The last of the tomatoes are being hauled from the fields to the cannery across town.  The combines are parked at the edges of the corn fields, just waiting to tear through the rows.  Butterflies are dancing around in the alfalfa fields that will soon receive [Click to Continue Reading...]