Lemon meringue pie is my absolute favourite dessert. I’m super lucky too, because my mother in law makes the best lemon meringue pie in the world. She also makes a date meringue pie, which Country Boy loves even more than the lemon meringue. I have often thought about making rhubarb meringue pie, using the same…
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Berry Clafoutis
At this time of year we always start looking through the freezers (there are 3 here) to shift some of the food that has been put there last summer. We want to make sure we make use of the harvest from last year, as well as make sure that we have room to put the…
Chocolate bread and butter pudding
It’s been crazy few weeks here on the farm. The kids and I have all had colds, and Toby is still suffering. Last weekend we went to the mountains to visit my family. Naturally enough, I developed my cold soon after we arrived, but it was still lovely to spend time with them all. We…
Fake Baked Apples
At this time of year, all the apple trees beside the road are laden with fruit. We have discovered a particularly good tree by the road halfway to town, and usually try to stop and fill a bag or two on the way home. I have been cooking up a whole lot of applesauce to…
Pear Strudel
If you have been following my blog at all over the last month, you will have noticed that recipes containing summer fruits are featuring heavily. We are deep into our summer harvest and our weekends and spare moments are filled with picking and cooking up the bounty from our garden and forages. I made this…
Raspberry Poached Pears
A few weeks back we dropped in on some friends late on a Saturday afternoon. They were just heading down to their pear and nectarine trees to harvest all the fruit. Of course we joined them and spent a fun hour chatting and picking fruit. Their pear tree was completely laden down with fruit, and…
Stonefruit Galette
One of my favourite things about summer is the fruit. Peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, cherries, grapes, watermelon. The list just keeps going. We get a weekly order of fresh fruit delivered to the small town nearby every Thursday, and I always chronically over order because I get excited by all the delicious fruits. Unfortunately in…
