Category: fruit

• apple muffins

  

  Happy New Year! It’s okay to still be saying that, right? It’s like saying “good morning” at 11:45 AM! I feel like posting one’s first blog post of the year in late January is sort of like the equivalent of being the last person in your neighborhood to take down your Christmas decorations! Oh well, […]

  Dave G

  January 30, 2022

  apples, baked goods, baking, breakfast, dessert, food blogging, fruit, muffins, snack

  apple muffins, breakfast muffins, cardamom, cinnamon, muffins, nutmeg, vanilla

• apple pull apart rolls

  

  Greetings! As soon as I saw these pull-apart rolls on the King Arthur website, I wanted to make them. For the boiled cider used in their recipe, I instead substituted 4 cups of apple juice that I reduced to 1/2 cup. I couldn’t find apple cider anywhere in the grocery stores around me, for some […]

  Dave G

  October 10, 2021

  apples, baked goods, baking, buns, dessert, food blogging, fruit, sweet dough, sweet rolls, sweets, yeast breads

  apple cinnamon rolls, apple pull apart rolls, pull apart bread rolls, pull apart rolls

• clementine almond cake

  

  “Oh my darling, oh my darlingOh my darling, ClementineYou were lost and gone foreverDreadful sorrow, Clementine.” The benefit of using clementines instead of oranges is that they seem to have less membrane or pithy parts and are fairly juicy and full of orange flavor. Also they are easier to peel. Make sure you zest them […]

  Dave G

  April 17, 2021

  almond flour, almond meal, almonds, baked goods, baking, cakes, dessert, food blogging, fruit, sweets

  almond cake, clementine cake, clemnentine almond cake, mandarin orange cake

• rosehip nut bread

  

  Okay, I promise this is the last time you’ll be seeing rosehips here. Haha! Lessons learned from a overeager weekend forager: Rugosa rosehips may seem ripe, but if you wait a few more weeks, their colors deepen even more, and they get a little softer. Debate is still out whether their flavor deepens, too, although […]

  Dave G

  August 22, 2020

  baked goods, baking, bread, brunch, dessert, food blogging, forage, foraging, fruit, quick bread, quickbread, rose hip, rosehips, snack, tea loaf, teacake

  rose hips, rosehip bread, rosehip nut bread, rugosa rose hips

• rosemary cranberry pine nut crisps

  

  What a difference one little ‘s’ makes. I’m talking about crisps! This is not the recipe where you bake fruit in a casserole dish with a crunchy topping of brown sugar, butter, and flour. Crisps are crisp, crunchy, twice-baked slices of quick bread that are more like crackers than slices of bread. They are like […]

  Dave G

  November 20, 2019

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, bread, crisps, food blogging, fruit, quick bread, snack

  cheese board crackers, crackers, cranberry, crisps, pine nuts, rosemary

• fig tamarind pop tarts

  

  Happy April! These pop tarts may look rather plain and ordinary, but they are something special. Two things: Leaf lard and the fig-tamarind combo. I searched for a fig-tamarind jam combo online back in November, but didn’t find any, but now there is a company that puts out a Fig Tamarind Jam!! But since I […]

  Dave G

  April 1, 2019

  baked goods, baking, fig, food blogging, fruit, hand pies, pie, tamarind, tart

  fig tamarind, hand pies, homemade, pop tarts

• wild blackberry croissant bread pudding

  

  Okay, I’ll be honest. This recipe could be made simpler by using all store bought ingredients, but where’s the fun in that? Part of the fun, I think, is tasting the literal fruits of your labor! And I know it may not be always possible to forage for berries in the wild, but if you […]

  Dave G

  September 1, 2018

  baked goods, baking, berries, bread pudding, food blogging, fruit

  berry foraging, blackberries, blackberry jam, croissant bread pudding, foraging

• Benedictine Pear Loaf Cake

  

  If ever there was a recurrent theme for me here, it would be a quick bread made in a loaf pan. That’s just how I roll, I guess. Maybe I should change the name to Dave’s Quick Bread Recipes? Hmmm. This came about actually while initially searching online for an apple cake recipe, and finding […]

  Dave G

  October 22, 2017

  almond flour, almond meal, almonds, baked goods, baking, brunch, cakes, dessert, food blogging, french, fruit, quick bread, Uncategorized

  aprioct jam glaze, benedictine, bosc pears, pear bread, pear cake, pear loaf cake, pears

• green plum upside down cake

  

  Let’s see…all this (as in my quest to find the perfect plums) started because a coworker gave me a small container of very sweet green plums. Which I was immediately drawn to, because usually one equates green fruits as being unripe or sour. Although these looked like they would be sour, they were not. In fact, they were completely ripe, […]

  Dave G

  September 24, 2017

  baked goods, baking, cakes, dessert, food blogging, fruit, teacake

  green plum, green plum upside down cake, greengage, italian green plums, plum cake, plum upside down cake, sour green plums