Dessert Recipes

Introduction It was 11:27 PM on a rainy Wednesday, and my craving for something sweet and comforting hit like a freight train. I didn’t have … Read more

“I never thought zucchini belonged in anything sweet,” my friend Linda declared firmly every summer when I mentioned zucchini bread. For years, she refused to … Read more

Last Saturday, I was wrestling with a basket of peaches I’d picked up from the farmers market—too ripe to wait, but not quite ripe enough … Read more

Last Thursday afternoon, my neighbor Mark, who’s always casually tending to his tiny urban garden, watched me fumble with a sad, dry chocolate loaf I’d … Read more

The summer I turned twelve, I was wandering the aisles of a local farmers market on a lazy Saturday morning when the warm, nutty scent … Read more

Introduction The neighborhood block party was in less than two hours and I had absolutely nothing ready. Everyone else was hauling in trays of grilled … Read more

Introduction The summer I turned thirty, I was waiting for a bus one chilly October evening when the quiet guy from the accounting firm next … Read more

Introduction “The summer I turned thirty, I wasn’t expecting much when I dropped by my neighbor’s place just to borrow some sugar. Honestly, I was … Read more

Introduction This was supposed to be a simple peach sorbet experiment. I grabbed the wrong can of peaches—syrupy, not the fresh ones I intended—and the … Read more

Introduction The power went out halfway through a lazy Sunday afternoon when my usually reserved plumber, Mike, started talking about his secret dessert weapon—brown butter … Read more