The Food We Love
Have I ever mentioned that I like dried fruits and nuts in my granola? Well, sometimes I do, like this time when they are in my granola bars. These homemade bars are so much “better than any store bought variety” and they even have, what I think comes from being a French inspired granola bar, […]
Double Coconut Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies…coming right up…I have a batch in my oven right now as we speak- I don’t know what got into me this past month but I have baked variations of these cookies at least half a dozen times. I keep baking, tweaking the recipe and sharing these cookies. Everybody loves […]
We made a quick trip to Palm Springs after New Years in search of dry weather and a few rounds of golf that didn’t involve soaking wet greens and splattering mud, doesn’t that sound like fun? While we can play golf almost year round in Northern California, Southern California is really the place to be, […]
I don’t know why I ended up with a huge bag of dried coconut in my pantry but that’s one of the reasons I made these delicate melt in your mouth French style mini cakes called coconut friands, the auto correct keeps changing the word friands to friends so I’m going to try and write […]
This is the first of two easy and quick recipes that I made this week from the ripe bananas collecting dust on my kitchen counter. Don’t worry, they were collecting dust on the peel not on the part I used for these recipes! The good news is that both recipes can be made from start […]
Our friends in Palm Desert gave us a large bag of key limes, I guess you’re not actually suppose to call them ‘key limes’ if they don’t grow in the Florida Keys but I’m going to call them key limes in this recipe because I like the way it sounds and it’s my blog. I’ve […]
Welcome to a tropical paradise set in a rain forest in the little village of Volcano on the big island of Hawaii, please make yourself at home and enjoy some of my scones made with dried pineapple, papaya, macadamia nuts, coconut and a honey butter glaze. One morning I went to the farmer’s market in […]
