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Sonoma County Olive Oil & Meyer Lemon Cake

February 10, 2016 by Allison Hudson

While briefly living in Northern California, I was lucky enough to visit a private ranch in Sonoma County where about an acres’s worth of grapes grow – enough to make several dozen cases of wine per year, with which among other things grown on-site provide bountiful country picnics with a tasting of several gold and silver winning varietals to life on a regular basis. When I got there for a late lunch on Saturday, a table on the deck was […]

Categories: Baked, Breakfasts, Pies, Gallettes & Tarts, Trips • Tags: Baking With Lemons, Candied Lemons, Cooking with Lemons, Lemons, Meyer Lemon, Meyer Lemon Olive Oil Cake, Olive Oil Cake, Sonoma County, Wine Country

Pluot Gallette

September 5, 2015 by Allison Hudson

Do you ever pass by bakery windows or stare into their cases while waiting for coffee and long to order one of the beautiful treats therein, to enjoy both studying it for its beautiful shapes, colors and texture and eating it for its deliciousness, but stop yourself because it’s too indulgent from, well, all angles? Or fall down the rabbit hole of gazing at said treats online, but worry that you won’t get the assembly right, or it will take […]

Categories: Desserts, Pies, Gallettes & Tarts • Tags: Dessert Recipe, Desserts, End of Summer, Galette, Healthy Dessert, Pluot Thyme Galette, Pluots, Recipe, Thyme

Triple Berry Hybrid

August 24, 2015 by Allison Hudson

My berry addiction continues as squeezing in summer recipes feels all the more imperative – the shadows are getting longer earlier in my favorite sunny nook off our kitchen. To the urgency add a coincidental l stop at a farmer’s market that had an overage of black berries, plus a huge berry sale at Whole Foods to make this special treat justifiable (it requires a ton of berries), and an all-berry bake was inevitable. I’m not sure if my favorite […]

Categories: Baked, Desserts, Pies, Gallettes & Tarts • Tags: Baking, Blackberries, Blueberries, Desserts, Dinner Party, Food Photography, Healthier Dessert, Low Sugar, Raspberries, Recipe, Seasonal