Fruits & Nuts

Ch-ch-ch-Cherry Cobbler ~ Our Now-Frozen Cherries Put to Work

Once our luscious fresh-picked Bing cherries were pitted, frozen and bagged, the pressure was OFF to make something quickly. FROZEN cherries are called for in this recipe for Cherry Cobbler.

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Fresh Cherry Hand Pies ~ We Even Picked The Cherries

Of course, once you pick 12 pounds of fresh cherries, you bake with them. No more story telling (all that is here on another post), time to make Fresh Cherry Hand Pies.

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Pumpkin Blueberry Trifle for Thanksgiving ~ True Blue Treat

The world is shrinking. How to know? Here in California, I can buy fresh blueberries at Thanksgiving. They’re grown in Chile, the upside down seasons to ours. You can also buy frozen blueberries any old time. They work beautifully in recipes like this heavenly Pumpkin Blueberry Trifle.  Hardest part?  Wrangling a serving bowl big enough to […]

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Fresh Plum Galette ~ Wait, Didn’t I Already Post A Galette?

It’s time you made a galette.  I’m making them a lot these days.  Master this simple recipe and it may easily become your signature scratch dessert.  Seriously, all this Fresh Plum Galette IS is a flat pie crust with sliced fruit and a good amount of sugar.  Fold up the edges.  Bake.  Beautiful!

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Very Berry Summer Pudding ~ I Tweaked It Just A Tad

The photo of a Very Berry Summer Pudding recipe in Southern Living magazine caught my eye. Squishy stacks of juicy fresh berries – how is this pudding? I grew up with Jell-o as my definition of “pudding,” followed by a few scratch successes like this Butterscotch Pudding. Time to try berry pudding, a gorgeous Southern […]

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Lattice-Topped Berry Cobbler

One hallmark of a worthwhile recipe, in my opinion, is I can flub some steps and it still works out swell. Case in point, this lip-smacking Lattice-Topped Berry Cobbler from Cooking Light Magazine.

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Petite Rustic Apple Galette

Rustic is a great word. In “Patti Land,” it means, “lower your expectations and you’ll get a lovely outcome.” Rustic Apple Galette — it’s PIE, but rough around the edges, hand crafted, simple ingredients. Yummy yet unassuming, it can possibly result in the guy proposing marriage. This, or a perfectly roasted chicken. Hell… make the chicken, […]

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Pucker Up! A Dozen Yumm-O Lemon Recipes

Here in sunny So Cal, citrus grows everywhere. Farms and fields, front and side yards, pots on porches, stairways and terraces. We planted our tree in Y2K following our major home remodel. I’m the tree trimmer and keep it just a little taller than Larry. It took some years to become prolific but now… Got […]

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Mango Avocado Salad ~ “Food, Fast” Is Much Better Than “Fast Food”

Swear on a stack of bibles, I’m not sucking up to sponsors from Camp Blogaway. We ended our Camp with a HUGE supply of goodies, some ripening quickly. Today, I whipped up lunch in five minutes, made a pretty picture, then sat on the porch swing and savored my fresh Mango Avocado Salad.

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Mini Glazed Lemon Corncakes

Holy Moly, these Mini Glazed Lemon Corncakes are fab!! {TWO exclamation points.} Dense, moist, lemony, sweet. Here’s the brainstorm… first, a too-large bag of cornbread mix in the pantry, left over from Easter. Next, lemon tree, loaded with fruit. I was on my 3-mile Sunday walk (good girl), pondering cooking (natch). There HAD to be […]

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Kahlua-Glazed Peaches & Vanilla-Kahlua Yogurt For Two

  Tell me if I’m wrong, but more words aren’t necessary. Fresh summer peach. Kahlua. Dunk, roast. Stir a little more into plain yogurt. Fresh vanilla bean. Drizzle. Sweet. Savoring. Kahlua-Glazed Peaches & Vanilla-Kahlua Yogurt for Two. Only Larry and me here, today that’s all that counts.

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Marty’s Spicy Almonds ~ Block Party!

Every early summer for the past nine years, Larry has hosted a neighborhood block party. I say “Larry has,” because two chiefs don’t work so well for this event. He checks a date with a collection of immediate neighbors, who then help with distributing flyers, bringing beverages and ice, tent setup (always a comedy of […]

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Happy Birthday Lemon Bars for my Dad

The weekend of my dad’s 87th birthday is also the weekend of Camp Blogaway with 90 passionate foodies in the local mountains. The conflict, of course, is how to not be a jerk of a kid. WHEW, Cousin Wendy hosted Easter at her house, which gave me a visit with my pop. ACK a gift!!  […]

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