Caramel Apple Pie

A recipe from Williams-Sonoma.

The apples were sweet, rather than tart; a find at the farmer's market. The crust recipe came from the Wartime Cookbook.

Matt's review: "Yum."


...When pushed for more details: "The filling is sweeter and mellower than the typical apple pie. Relatively thin and neutrally flavored crust, neither sweet nor
salty. The caramel sauce isn't, strictly speaking, necessary, but it does have a very nice, butterscotch-like flavor."

Dellicious Death

What better way to celebrate Agatha Christie's 120th birthday Wednesday than with this aptly-named cake?

Taken from the Miss Marple novel A Murder is Announced, it's a flourless dark chocolate cake, filled with boozy raisins, cherries & ginger & topped with ganache. Crushed candied roses & violets as decorations, along with, in this case, gold luster dust. (recipe calls for gold leaf but with one day to assemble ingredients I was out of luck. ...No, I don't have gold leaf in my pantry. At least, not all the time.)




Not a cake I'd enjoy personally (once you add fruit I lose interest) but definitely a treat in a rationing-weary England...even if its unfortunate moniker was foreshadowing. Poor Bunny.

Breakfast Porn, or Ginger Scones

At least, that's what Matt's been calling it.

Chocolate. Vanilla. Caramel.

In a word: yum.

Modifying a recipe from Tartelette, dark chocolate brownie topped with vanilla ice cream, salted caramel sauce & sprinkled with Fleur de Sel.

What Can You Do To Help?

John Cleese & Free Range Studios team up to help aquatic life. What will you do?

Lanterns Assemble

First try; needs some work.

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