This pie will convert most lemon pie haters out there. True. It happened in front of me. I observed this guy voraciously eat slice after slice of this pie while insisting that he hated lemon pies, except for this one. Don't you love it when people do that? He loved this dessert so much he begged me to post about it. This guy to which I'm referring was my husband. Foodwise, husband has very definite likes and dislikes. I tend to agree with him most times but on the odd occasion in which...

The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet.

Life is funny. Sometimes it takes places you don't want to go or forces you to do things you had no intention doing. This pudding was one of those things. I wasn't going to do this challenge due to not having the necessary equipment, being too busy, and having too many other co...

Silken chicken is one of the easiest chicken dishes in my mum's repertoire and this one yield tremendous flavour in exchange of a little prep and then not much cooking time. It is imperative that you use the best quality chicken and condiments you can afford as this dish is all about the ingredients. The resulting flavour of this dish is far better than the sum of its parts, but then, its parts must be top-notch. This is an ideal meal whenever you are short on time and/or patience ...

The 2010 April Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Wolf of Wolf’s Den. She chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make Brunswick Stew. Wolf chose recipes for her challenge from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt Lee and Ted Lee, and from the Callaway, Virginia Ruritan Club.

I made this stew believing it was going to be one of those simple, no-nonsense, mild-mannered stews which abound in country women's cookbooks ... and I wasn't wrong. In fact, Brunswick Stew was so easy to ingest ...