The first time I made this lemon cheesecake tart, I was standing in my kitchen with no real plan, just a craving for something lemony, something creamy, and something with a buttery, flaky pastry on the side. What came out of the oven was the dessert I have been making every spring since, and it is … Read more
Last weekend the kitchen counter looked like a berry farm exploded on it. Cole and I went picking, came home with three flats of fruit, and I spent the next hour washing strawberries while a pint of blueberries gave me the side-eye from the corner of the island. I needed to use them. Fast. That … Read more
The first time I made berry hand pies on a whim, it was a sticky July afternoon and I had a half-thawed sheet of puff pastry and a clamshell of raspberries threatening to go soft on the counter. Forty minutes later I was eating one straight off the cooling rack, glaze still warm, juice running … Read more
Growing up, my mum absolutely refused to buy pop tarts. She called them “cardboard with frosting” and wouldn’t even let them past the pantry door. As a stubborn kid who just wanted to eat the same lunchroom snacks as everyone else, this felt like a personal injustice. So she did what mums do — she … Read more