Orange Blossom Cream Tart with Strawberries

Orange Blossom Cream Tart with Strawberries

Winter is finally over! We got the last flurries this week, and they melted mid-morning under the early spring sunrise. I spotted the first burgundy-purple sprouts of tulip leaves timidly rising among winter’s carcass of dead leaves. How wonderful it is to see the thaw after the long winter and gradually get ready to sprout [...]

Blackberry Lavender Ganache Tart

Blackberry Lavender Ganache Tart

             When I was in my teens, I had the privilege of going to Europe. Being an avid reader, I had read many novels that took place in European cities like Paris, London, and Rome, but I think until that trip, the beauty of those European places was almost fictional in my mind. I hadn’t [...]

Plum and Orange Blossom Cream Tart

Plum and Orange Blossom Cream Tart

Spring is here, and this wonderful season has arrived with color, beautiful blossoms, and a new friendship with Mimi, my fellow writer-baker from the blog A Quarrel of Feasts. This is my first collaboration on the blog, and I am ecstatically happy with all I have been able to learn and share with my friend [...]