I have a single cherry tree in my backyard that produces bright red, tart cherries for about one week each year. I love tart cherries. Even though the yield is low and pitting cherries can be a lot of work, I anticipate that one week of the summer when the cherries are ready to be…
Category: Baking
Tart Lemon Bars
I love lemon bars, but I rarely make them. Baking lemon bars tends to fall into that baking category of slightly more time consuming and a little bit more work. Squeezing lemons is also not the most enjoyable of baking tasks, but it is great for discovering small paper cuts and there is always that…
Grandma Al’s Chocolate Cake
I have no idea where my Grandmother, Alberta, found this chocolate cake recipe, but it makes the moistest, lightest, chocolaty-est chocolate cake I have ever had the good fortune of eating. From personal experience I have found that most chocolate cakes have a tendency to turn out dense and dry. I have never had those…
A. L. Graham’s
A salted butterscotch oatmeal cookie that I created for a dear friend’s bridal shower. Into its creation went a splash of bourbon and a sprinkle of pecans to harken back to Ashley’s southern roots, oatmeal since medical school has injected (pun intended) Ashley with the importance of good nutrition, and plenty of sugar and butter…
The Ephemeral Bee 