tart

Tart–y…

April 25, 2013 by Peabody · 9 Comments

First off congrats to Heather (of Kitchen Concoctions) who is the winner of the tart pans. She has already been contacted and the pans are on their way Heather. Sorry I was behind on that as what I thought was allergies was really a cold. I’ll be announcing the winner for the Harry and David giveaway this weekend. I went to a blogger event awhile back and they had these yummy salted caramel tarts (and since I was giving away tart pans I had tarts on the mind) that looked quite simple to make. I asked who the cater was and looked them up when I got home. I about died when I saw on their website that they charged $9 a tart for the kind I had. Nine dollars? Really. I made 6 of these for less than that. Well that’s a lie because I used Fran’s Sea Salt Chocolates and those are a bit pricey but I already had them and if I didn’t I probably wouldn’t have added them. I actually did a really good job of recreating them. I think theirs had more salt but the look is about the same. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: caramel, chocolate · Tagged With: chocolate, Salted Caramel, tart

You call that a salad…

August 22, 2012 by Peabody · 21 Comments

I went to a potluck in the south once and looked down at a concoction that I had not seen before. And the woman next to me said “oh that’s salad” and I said “it has Snickers in it” and she said “yes, it’s Snicker Apple Salad”. Oh well of course. I put Snickers in all of my salads…don’t you? I thought she was crazy until I ate it. Apples. Good. Snickers. Good. Whipped Cream. Good. Back in those days that’s all they put in the salad. I guess if Waldorf can be a salad and that Strawberry Pretzel thing…this can too. I have been craving apple pie like crazy lately. I’ve tried to ignore it almost breaking down and eating a Hostess apple pie when I got gas the other day (don’t judge) but I clearly needed to feed the apple pie beast within me. Since I tend to do things with a twist on here I decided to do a twist on the salad into tart form. And gotta say yum! Now it’s not apple pie-y apple pie but it’s good all the same. And hey…it’s salad. You can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: pie · Tagged With: Apple, Salad, Snickers, tart

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night…

December 27, 2011 by Peabody · 33 Comments

This is where I say a goodbye to many of you. Oh it’s not a permanent goodbye for most of you, as you tend to all come back around Valentine’s Day, but many of you flee this time of year. Many people write or comment that you won’t be coming to my site for a while, that it’s too much temptation while you make your “lifestyle change”. Let me be the first to assure you that if you can’t look at photos of food without setting off some sort of trigger, than you are not on a lifestyle change, you are on a diet. If you can’t figure out how to fit in a brownie once in a while then you aren’t going to last. If you have always had a sweet tooth, which if you come to this site you probably do; it is quite unrealistic I hate to tell you to give up sugar for the rest of your life. I should know, on a dare I once did Sugar Busters for a year. Did I lose weight? No, in fact I gained 12 pounds. Why, because I never lost my sugar craving. I lost my craving for bread, but never … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baked goods, chocolate, ice cream · Tagged With: Brownie, Hot Chocolate, ice cream, tart

Jam on it…

April 15, 2011 by Peabody · 23 Comments

I posted on Twitter that “A clean house is the sign of a boring life…my life must be pretty exciting then.” Which of course it’s not. I have a dirty house because I am lazy and folding laundry sucks, it’s far more fun to throw it on the floor and have a scavenger hunt for something to wear…especially when in a hurry. :P But in a way it got me thinking, I’m really not doing anything very interesting with my life as of late? I seem to have zero drive. Now I will admit that my health has played into it but I feel that I’m using that excuse, as well as complete lack of funding for fun stuff, to just kind of wander around. I really feel like I am just floating through life right now. Do you ever feel like that? Like you are just going through the motions day in and day out as each day goes passing by. I blink and half of April is gone. Half! And then that gets me thinking, stop wasting life! I just lost several people in my life who would be more than happy to have an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: dessert, fruit · Tagged With: freezer jam, rhubarb, Strawberry, tart