I’ve told y’all once before that I’m very specific about peanut butter pie.  I’m a bit of a purist.  My original recipe is a rich peanut butter pudding tucked into a graham cracker and toasted peanut crust, without cream cheese or chocolate.  You can find my recipe here.  However, it’s high time I posted the [Click to Continue Reading...]

My friends would tell you that I have an annoying habit:  anytime someone mentions a margarita, I will always chime in and say “the frozen margarita was invented in Dallas!”  Every.single.time.  I can’t resist informing anyone who’ll listen that the most delicious cocktail was created in my home town.  I’m so proud.  In fact, I’ve [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...]

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...]

 This pie is the perfect taste of summer.  I can’t get enough of it.  Peach Raspberry Pie   Print   Makes 1 small 6″ pie. Ingredients For the crust: 1 cup unbleached flour 2 teaspoons sugar ¼ teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, diced ½ teaspoon apple cider vinegar 3-4 tablespoons ice cold water [Click to Continue Reading...]

  I use store-bought refrigerated pie crust for this recipe.  Why?  Well, normally I’m a big advocate of making everything from scratch.  I don’t even buy tortillas or bread anymore.  But when I was creating this recipe I remembered my favorite pie that my grandmother used to make.  Around the holidays, all the adults ate pecan [Click to Continue Reading...]

I’m very particular about my peanut butter pie.  True peanut butter pie does not have cream cheese in it—that would make it a cheesecake.  Peanut butter cheesecake is delicious, but that’s a whole other recipe we’ll get to on another day.  You may be tempted to drizzle this pie with chocolate or make it with [Click to Continue Reading...]

This was my grandfather’s favorite dessert.  The story goes that his sister made it for him on the day he came home from the war.  He sat down at the table and ate the entire pie in one sitting.  How’s that for a homecoming? Chocolate Cream Pie   Print   Makes 1 small 6″ pie. [Click to Continue Reading...]