My friend Laura of Cloves and Cream wrote this guest post for a quick and tangy pie that just happens to keep with the resourceful Poor Girl Gourmet theme. Coloring inside the lines was never for me. Perched at the sun bleached yellow formica table in my great-grandmother’s kitchen I would scribble wildly, weaving in… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Dessert
Blueberry-Lemon Coffee Cake with Lemon Glaze
Sundays at our house have a familiar cadence to them developed over more than a decade of practice: sleep in – a welcome change, particularly for JR who is up at 5am during the week; coffee made on the stove top, perhaps a fried egg or a frittata with freshly gathered eggs, then the start… Continue Reading
Chocolate Souffle Waits for No One
If you have been following my recent posts, you are probably all too aware that I have an abundance of eggs from the scared-into-laying-by-threat-of-death-chickens who reside in a palatial chicken mansion at my house. Hence, I am trying to prepare those eggs in all of the one hundred ways allegedly symbolized by the creases in… Continue Reading
Leafy Green Lasagna
I felt I had to share this with you today instead of the wine post I had planned because any meat-free dish – and given, this is no diet meat-free dish – that JR requests to have packed for his lunch and then says, “can’t I have more?” upon reviewing his portion, must be a… Continue Reading
A Homemade Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Says ‘I Love You’
I think you’d have to agree that a homemade chocolate sandwich cookie does say “I love you”. I mean, making this cookie – while there is no question that it tastes infinitely better than a store-bought sandwich cookie – does not save you a single cent. What it does buy you, though, is the respect… Continue Reading