The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet. I wish I was more enthusiastic for this challenge. British pudding makes me think of just a big meat pie and to be [...]

With a surplus of yummy puff pastry burning a hole in my fridge and a whole Sunday with nothing to do, I was left no choice but to make my loving husband brave the grocery store to get me apples for a tart tatin last weekend. I love tart tatin but had never made one [...]

“Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints???” Over a year ago when Doug and I got engaged I made a pretty outlandish prediction. I called that my hometown of New Orleans and his home town of Indianapolis would have stars align, hell freezing over and would make it to the [...]