Whenever I think of wineberries, I think of taking my sweet friend Cara back to the creek in the height of summer and filling containers with little red berries. Similar to a raspberry, but smaller and with a decidedly more cloying flavor, wineberries are the perfect summer berry. Unfortunately, like raspberries, they have a short harvesting…
Food
Basic Meringues (recipe)
Meringues have a reputation of being rather difficult to work with. You have to beat the egg-white and sugar mixture until it's impossibly stiff with a satin-y sheen. However, when creating these little treats over the weekend, I found them to be rather forgiving, and an easy thing to pop into the oven and forget…
Lemon Raspberry Curd
This is my second confession: I am sadly addicted to making curd. You all are gonna have to just *coughdealcough* put up with me for the time being. This curd is a gorgeous orange color from the raspberries. I used fresh berries, pushed through a strainer - I feel this allows for a more concentrated…
Ginger Grapefruit Curd (recipe)
I think this curd is one of my favorite addictions. I made it over the weekend, after seeing the fantastic recipe on 101 Cookbooks. The lovely thing about Heidi's recipe is that it includes a substitute for sugar (honey). {If you didn't know, I'm fasting from sugar this Lent. Today, they had brownies at work.…