For some of us, classic French toast — not particularly French or toasted, to be honest, unless we’re speaking of pain perdu — is sufficient on a weekend morning to make it feel exceptional. For others, it’s casserole-style or bust because baking it in one big pan is vastly more …

This is not a recipe for eggplant caviar, but caught up in an adoration of July eggplants too lovely to roast just to grind up, it is loosely inspired by it. If you’re unfamiliar with eggplant caviar, well, you need to come over to my in-law’s where it is never …

Watch the video for this recipe: Mangoes are in season now and perfect to be used in summer desserts. They are making such a great pair with coconut and this is how I got the idea of this ice cream. This coconut and mango ice cream is a great combination …

Watch the video for this recipe: I have received a lot of requests to share with you a vanilla layer cake, and I decided to make this vanilla raspberry layer cake with Mascarpone frosting, a perfect treat for summer. The raspberries are in season now and goes perfectly in this …

Watch the video for this recipe: Summer calls for no bake recipes as much as possible and as I was craving some chocolate dessert lately,  I found on Pinterest some recipes of no bake brownies. The one that really caught my attention was this easy recipe from Chocolate Covered Katie …

There is no better dessert in summer days than a refreshing ice cream. This time I want to share with you a great and easy recipe for an incredible and decadent Ice Cream Cake that can be easily served for any party or anniversary.   No cooking is involved in …

That was close. We almost went half the summer without a new pie recipe. I do solemnly swear to never let that happen. Common cooking theory goes that galettes are a lazy person’s pie, except one person’s lazy is might just be another person having life priorities that do not …

Oh, hi, I am ready for summer now. What did I miss? Because the first half of this summer was so busy — a manuscript due, a redesign set off into the world, a birthday, and a zillion other bits of happy work/life chaos — I’m in this funny position …

I’m currently in a swarm of many behind-the-scenes things that I genuinely couldn’t be happier about even if it would also be okay if they didn’t all fall in the next few weeks (the deadline on the next cookbook, the launch at-last-so-overdue-hooray site redesign, a hopefully very cool new project …

For one week every spring the local Catholic church, an otherwise unassuming dot on the landscape of my suburb, turned their property into magical kingdom of lights, music, cotton candy and so many rides it was impossible to remember that all other weeks of the year it was just an …