Grandma’s pumpkin dessert
One holiday season when visiting my family, my grandma made us dessert. While usually she bakes us a pie, this time she had…
Danish apple cake (Aeblekage)
While looking for apple recipes, I came across a dessert in a September 1966 edition of the Dallas Morning News. It was stated…
Cherry Dr Pepper cheesecake bars
A few years ago for his birthday, my uncle asked my grandma to make a cherry pie he’d spied in her collection of…
Lemon lavender shortbread
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Strawberry frozen yogurt
A couple of weeks ago, a friend in North Texas sent me a picture of her strawberry plant. “I have strawberries,” she announced…
Ruby Red grapefruit chess bars
The first time I learned about chess bars, I was at the Strand Bookstore in New York City browsing through its collection of…
Mexican chocolate fudge
At Christmastime my senior year of high school, I had a classmate who was going through a tough time, so another friend and…
Blueberry lime cornmeal crumble
When I was a kid, my mom used to make a dessert that combined canned pie filling, cake mix, and a stick of…
Churro brownies
Often I’ll hear about new restaurants in Texas to try and because I’m thousands of miles away, I can only look at the…
