Category: Citrus (28)

  • Lemon Bars

    Mr. Craigg, how happy are we that you have a bountiful lemon tree Growing all happily in sunshine and degree of 70 I’m so thankful that you have a daughter that works with me Who is more than willing to bestow your citrus o’ bounty on thee Mr. Craigg, I don’t know how you do it, growing that…

  • This time of year you see weird things in the store once we get close to the Holidays. One of those “weird” things is the candied fluorescent looking fruit intended for making fruitcake. Does anyone really make fruit cakes besides monks? Anyway…I actually like the candied lemon peel and candied orange peel because I love…

  • Coconut-Lemon-Passion Fruit Cake I like the combination of coconut and passion fruit. I was lucky to find this passion fruit jelly a couple of months ago and I bought the jelly with the intention of making passion fruit buttercream. I really liked how it turned out. I also used Monin passion fruit syrup to brush the cakes…

  • Spiced Blood Orange Marmalade Blood oranges are one of those things when they are good, they are really good and when they are bad, well…. they are not that great. I’ve been stalking the markets lately  in hopes of finding some and yesterday I found some a the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market. I was so excited the…

  • I don’t know who is more of a sucker for a tourist trap. Me or my husband. We were driving down to Southern California recently and we just had to stop at Casa de Fruita. If you are driving down to LA from San Francisco, you will pass by it.  You can’t miss it if  you tried.…

  • Sunshine, Oscar the Dog, and Lime Meltaways…. The day started out good. I could tell it was going to be a  great Sunday.  The Husband woke me up with fresh, hot coffee, which is pretty much priority number one on any given day. We recently got a new dog, “Oscar”.  Oscar has learned that when Mommy starts…