While I don't attack most desserts, I like pie from time to time. One filled with fruit or better yet rich, mousse-like cremes. I am still haunted by my dear grandmere's perfectly sweet and tart lemon pie and sometimes dream of a now lost place that served gargantuan coconut cream pie so high you could leap to your demise from it's whipped peaks ( Read more... )

I have fallen into a food love over the past year. If you stop by here regularly, you know I crave all things spicy and from the sea. So it makes sense that fish tacos - with my own spicy chipotle crema - have their hooks in me.

You can use the fishy of your choice. Grill it, bake it, fry it - you're in control. I happen to get all tingly for ( Read more... )

Hello darlings. I know, I've been bad. I've been away - off doing things I cannot mention, but I've slithered back into Goreyhaus just in time for holiday cheer. What jolly time could be had without a little tipple. And some sugar. And some luxurious richness too ( Read more... )

Since the warm weather months are coming to a quick finale, at least in the northern hemisphere, the succulent globes known as stone fruit are soon going to disappear for a while. {sniff}

Plums, peaches, nectarines, apricots are in this family, which is one of my favorite fruity clans, and are so named for the pits, or stones, inside. I love other ( Read more... )

Although autumn has still not arrived, despite what the calendar might say, I am willing it to be in my kitchen.

I could go with the actual weather and continue to grill al fresco and make salads, but I cannot. I want the crisp fall chill in the daytime air, cold nights and the smell of leaves rotting on the ground. I want the comfort that only a ( Read more... )

Another pagan-based holiday is here, so let's whip up some delicious festive foods to celebrate whatever it is for you, however you like it.

Yes, the Easter bunny makes a visit here. At least he's not afraid to stop by (he knows we'd never hurt a magical creature), and even brings us sweet goodies. Although some among the breathing ask why the  ( Read more... )

When times are hard, sometimes one has to look back to another difficult time for ideas and guidance on how to get through it. While Grandmama is gone, her wisdom and survival stories are worth remembering and even duplicating, in order to make the best of it. The silver lining to this pretty gray cloud, in terms of food, is that those hard-times ( Read more... )

I like winter. Snowflakes. Sledding. Making zombie drag-marks in the snow. The cold doesn't usually bother me much, after all I've been corporeally-challenged for some time now, so my body is cold. However, even I am feeling chilled lately by the Arctic gusts that have invaded the estate ( Read more... )

The new year arrived with freezing rain, friends, food, and cocktails. I burned a bayberry candle for good luck in the new year and downed a toast and kissed a posse of paranormal beings at the stroke of twelve. Today, because I did not eat or drink much (I'm still full from Xmas) last night, I feel fine and have spent this lazy, gloriously cloudy ( Read more... )

My ancestral line comes from the parts of the world where Yule, the forefather to Christmas, began. In these cold northern places, December brought short, dark days (yay) and those earlier people had to wonder if they and their loved ones would make it through the frigid, lean times to see another spring. To appease the supernatural winter warlords ( Read more... )