It's been a while since I've baked with coconut.  It's one of those ingredients that people seem to either love or hate.  B...

Somewhere among all the newly purchased apricots, peaches and cherries on my table were lurking a couple of ripening bananas, suffering f...

Pistachios seem to symbolize the beginning of spring and summer for me so it's usually about this time of year that I start to thin...

While we're entertaining our annual fantasies of fresh fruit pies, cobblers, crisps and shortcakes, today I'm going with peaches,...

We're dashing into the height of spring stone fruit season and I couldn't be happier.  I've just spied the first blush of apr...

Sometimes it's the simplest pleasures in life that really provide a good measure of delight.  Shortbread definitely falls into that...