Peach Mango Sorbet

Its summer time. I’ve been craving ice cream daily. I tried making a batch of frozen yogurt but the first attempt was not sweet enough and was too yogurty. I’ll give it a few more tries and hopefully be back with a winning Fro Yo recipe. For now though, I figured I’d stick with sorbet.

Peach [...]

Pineapple Salad

I’m very excited to be able to participate in this year’s wonderful blogging event, A Taste of Yellow hosted by winos and foodies. A Taste of Yellow is a blogging event supporting Livestrong Day, which is on May 13th this year. Livestrong Day, an event developed by the Lance Armstrong Foundation was created to to [...]

Strawberry Peach Sorbet

Its not quite fall here in Texas, so ice cream and sorbet still sound like delicious treats. I never did get around to trying out a sorbet recipe this summer, so I figured I ought to get busy now before the weather actually does start cooling down. Now most of the recipes I found for [...]

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

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 [...]

Grilled Tequila Cinnamon Pineapple

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 [...]

Summer means fresh fruit

Just wanted to pop in and let everyone know I’m still here One more week of this business trip and I’ll be home and back in my tiny kitchen cooking up a storm. I’m missing home and good old home cookin, even though you can’t be the abundance of good inexpensive Chinese food in [...]