Posted in blogging, fruit desserts, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, summer on Aug 18th, 2010
Have you seen the movie Waitress? It came out in 2007, but I never forget a movie in which pie takes a starring role. Keri Russell plays Jenna, a small-town diner waitress with a problem – she’s pregnant. And unhappy. She doesn’t love the baby’s father – her husband Earl – but does love her [...]
The Simmer Till Done management and advisory board – that would be me – is on a special-projects work break, so please enjoy these posts from the past, especially if they’re new to you. And if you have a rerun request, by all means send it along. First up: from July 2008, it’s a tale [...]
Posted in Lawrence, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, recipes on Oct 26th, 2008
A tip of the baker’s cap to Modernemama from Beach House, who correctly identified yesterday’s mystery dessert as Banoffee Pie. Or is it Banoffi? While standing in line at the coffee shop last week, I heard about this British dessert for the first time. As the Ancient Recorder of Obscure and Far-Fetched Sweets, I do [...]
Posted in pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps on Oct 25th, 2008
Something freakishly delicious is coming. Something with bananas and graham crackers, homemade dulce de licious – I mean, dulce de leche.
Posted in Josie, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, summer, vacation on Jul 23rd, 2008
Every August, the Kansas heat ceases to be punishing heat and becomes cruelly disciplined heat. That is our signal to escape – we flee by driving straight through an Iowa haze, further north by the hour, looking for a lake. When we finally stop in Duluth, Minnesota, we cross a bridge that skims the long [...]
