Category: tart
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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