Anyone who knows me knows I love my desserts an awful lot. I pretty much will not pass them up if offered, and I choose to get a dessert (hopefully to split with someone) almost every time I eat out with any deliberation (meaning, not the days Bill and I look at our well-stocked pantry and say, “There’s nothing to eat!”).

Dessert at home is a much more rare occurrence. We occasionally have ice cream in the freezer, and I occasionally will bake something in advance. However, because of my tendencies to hoover down desserts, we try not to keep these things around. If I bake cookies, I try to give at least some of them away. We only buy ice cream in pint sizes, and then make them last two to three days (with each of us having some).… Continue reading →

One night I decided dessert sounded like a good thing. I also decided that the ice cream in the freezer, going out to buy dessert and going out to buy ingredients for dessert all sounded like bad things. So I was stuck with what I had in the house, but not in the freezer.

What I had in the house was a bunch of ingredients, but nothing that could be immediately eaten and rightfully called “dessert”. Oh, sure, a spoonful of honey sounded “tasty” but not “dessert”. So I whipped out this cookbook to see what I could find.

The first thing I found that I had basically all the ingredients for were these apricot bars. What I didn’t have, I felt I could fake reasonably well.… Continue reading →