APPETITE FOR LIFE

A collection of recipes perfect for summer gatherings such as strawberry rhubarb crisp, grilled pizza and grilled halloumi.

Strawberry tart made with puff pastry is an easy dessert with strawberries, lemon zest, sugar, cornstarch, and vanilla

Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp starts with fresh strawberries and homegrown rhubarb. Add orange zest and lemon juice to highlight the flavors

Shake up your cornbread by adding jalapenos, corn, and cayenne along with cornmeal, buttermilk, butter, and chives.

Homemade vanilla is so much better than store bought and easy to make with vanilla beans steeped in bourbon, vodka, or rum.

Chocolate Caramel Pecan Cookies - what's not to love. These buttery cookies made with flour, kosher salt and baking powder are delicious.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting - easy cake with flour, sugar, oil, grated carrots, eggs, and cinnamon.

English muffins made at home are delicious and made from flour, milk, eggs, yeast, butter and a bit of sugar.

Popovers or Yorkshire Puddings use simple ingredients - eggs, milk, and flour cooked at a high temperature.

Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies made with only almond flour, brown sugar, butter, eggs and chocolate chips

Breakfast Bread Pudding will remind you of French Toast. With its sweet bread base, eggs, milk, vanilla, and cinnamon, a perfect brunch item

This savory soda bread is made with flour, baking soda, buttermilk, egg, herbs de Provence, and Parmesan cheese.

Irish Soda Bread is as simple as mixing flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and buttermilk together. Add raisins and caraway seeds too.

Cheddar Bacon Soda Bread with scallions and buttermilk can be put together and baked in under an hour.

Hot crossed buns softly spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. The secret is cranberry, orange zest, and apricot jam.

A delicious dessert with a buttery crust, cran-raspberry jam, and almond frangipane made with sugar, eggs, butter and ground almonds

The apples you choose are a very personal choice and can vary depending on where you live. My recommendation is for one sweet variety...

Simple but delicious pecan shortbread using butter, sugar, vanilla & almond extract, flour and pecans.

This was an experiment gone right! I took my favorite chocolate cake recipe and converted it into a bundt cake. This can make a great...

These are a holiday favorite! Ingredients: 1 ½ c Butter (3 sticks) 1 c Confectioners Sugar 1 tablespoon Vanilla 3 c Flour Icing 2 c...