
Last week I mistakenly purchased a huge container of vanilla yogurt. Ooops! I meant to buy plain yogurt. So I decided to return the wrong yogurt and replace it with the right one. I went through my files and found the receipt and put it in my pocket, but I forgot to bring the vanilla … [read more]

We had some blueberries and whipping cream in the fridge that needed to be used up, so Kemal and I threw this together last night after we made veggie pizza. It’s a quick and easy dessert because you can just purchase the pastry sheets and pudding to have on-hand in your kitchen and use … [read more]

A theme has become apparent. I dream about lemon cakes! I must admit I’ve been obsessed about lemon cakes these days so I guess it’s normal that I would have reoccurring dreams about making them. I would have liked to have had more lime in this cake, but I made do with what … [read more]

Up until today, I’ve never liked rice pudding. I tried it once when I was a kid and thought it was horrid. Then I tried it again when I was an adult and my opinion of rice pudding remained unchanged. It was yucky.
Today something totally magical happened. I made a rice pudding for Kemal, and … [read more]

Krempita (pronounced krem-pee-tah), like Sampita which I made last week, is another popular Yugoslavian dessert, and it’s also one of my husband’s favorites. There are numerous ways to make this cake, and it seems the possibilities are endless. Last night Kemal found over 100 different recipes for krempita, and trying to choose which one we … [read more]