Category: tart

• banana cream pie

  

  This came about simply because I wanted to try out a Nilla Wafer crust and also had a couple of bananas to spare that weren’t overripe. You want to use bananas that are just ripe, the kind you would normally eat as is, and not the kind of overripe bananas you would use for banana […]

  Dave G

  May 29, 2022

  baked goods, baking, bananas, custard, food blogging, maple syrup, pie, sweets, tart

  banana cream pie, gelatin, nilla wafer, nilla wafer crust, pies

• guava meringue pie

  

  Greetings! I can’t believe half the year is already over! I’ve been enjoying my days off experimenting in the kitchen immensely. It’s a luxury that I hope I never take for granted. Even though we don’t have a large kitchen at all, I’ve been putting my laptop and work stool on the narrow space between […]

  Dave G

  June 6, 2021

  baked goods, baking, dessert, food blogging, Guava, island food, pie, sweets, tart

  guava meringue pie, lime, meringue, meringue pie

• amarena cherry brûlée tart

  

  Greetings! Once the beginning of February rolls around, I often look for Valentine’s Day dessert ideas. This recipe was based on a similar dessert that uses raspberries instead of Amarena cherries, from a book called Tarts: The art of baking irresistible sweet and savory pastries, by Maggie Mayhew, which was published 2002. The crust was […]

  Dave G

  February 11, 2021

  baked goods, baking, custard tarts, dessert, food blogging, pastry, pie, tart

  amarena cherries, amarena cherry tart, brulee tart, cherries, pie, tart

• fig tamarind marble pound cake

  

  During these troubling times, it can help to find joy in little things. As a food and baking  blogger, I sometimes feel odd spending my spare time obsessing over recipes, writing them out, and taking photos of stuff when outside my window the world looks like it’s slowly being destroyed. But I think it’s essential […]

  Dave G

  July 24, 2020

  baked goods, baking, cakes, dessert, fig, figs, food blogging, quick bread, quickbread, snack, tamarind, tart

  fig jam, fig tamarind, fig tamarind jam, fig tamarind marble pound cake, tamarind paste, vanilla pound cake

• guava lemon bars

  

  Happy Valentine’s Day! This wasn’t a planned thing, but since I’ve often made stuff with guava for the month of February, and I just happened to have some leftover guava paste in the fridge, this was bound to happen. And I simply used a common recipe online for lemon bars with shortbread crust to make […]

  Dave G

  February 9, 2020

  baked goods, baking, bars, food blogging, pie, snack, tart

  bars, guava bars, guava lemon bars, guava paste, guayaba bars, lemon bars, shortbread crust, tropical fruit

• 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

• ampalaya chorizo quail egg tart

  

  Ampalaya, or bitter melon, is very popular in the Philippines, India, and other Asian countries. Although I didn’t have any on my recent trip to the PI, I did think about this vegetable while I was there. Which made me think of my mom. My mother used to prepare it very simply, usually just sautéed with […]

  Dave G

  September 16, 2017

  appetizer, baked goods, baking, breakfast, brunch, egg dish, food blogging, pastry, puff pastry, savory, side dish, snack, tart

  ampalaya, ampalaya chorizo quail egg tart, bitter gourd, bitter melon, puff pastry, quail eggs, soy chorizo

• cranberry shortbread bars

  

  As I went to the grocery store to buy fresh cranberries for this recipe, it dawned on me that this was the first time ever to use fresh cranberries in anything! I’ve purchased the premade cranberry sauce for numerous Thanksgivings. I drank a lot of cranberry juice, but never have I used the fresh kind! So […]

  Dave G

  December 18, 2016

  baked goods, baking, bars, berries, christmas, food blogging, snack, tart

  bars, christmas bars, coconut, cookies, cranberries, cranberry bars, cranberry shortbread bars, shortbread, white chocolate

• coffee and blackberry cake tart

  

  Summer is still among us in Washington State. And I thought I was done with making cakes containing sour cream and berries. But I guess I still had some sour cream in my fridge. Is it weird to have sour cream as a staple? I never thought we consume a lot of sour cream and […]

  Dave G

  September 12, 2014

  baked goods, baking, cakes, coffee cake, quick bread, snack, snack cakes, tart

  apricot jam glaze, blackberries, coffee and blackberry cake tart, ground coffee, kuchen, short bread cookie base