Growing up, my memories from an Italian-American Easter included butter shaped like a lamb, sweet bread studded with dried fruits (baked in a coffee can) and homemade ricotta pie. While my Nana’s version was the straightforward cheesecake type pie, I’ve always wanted to make a traditional rice pie. Called pastiera, it’s usually filled with arborio …
We live only a mile from the Brookfield Zoo – the largest zoo in Chicagoland – we were even there today. So it was not surprising that my kids suggested making a Gingerbread Zoo. In the past, we’ve made our gingerbread houses from scratch. But this year there simply wasn’t time. And so (I’m still …
Amazingly creamy with the almost taffy-like scoopability of scoop shop ice cream – a creaminess that coats and slides over your tongue like a super-premium ice cream – and most certainly not like a low-fat yogurt. It’s not often that a recipe changes your life. But truly, the Key Lime Frozen Yogurt recipe I redux-ed …