Tag Archive: Fruit desserts

The Two-Hour Apple Miracle

March 12, 2016

This recipe requires two ingredients—sweet, juicy apples and big chunks of walnuts. Try to find at least 4 varieties of apples, the fresher the better, so yes if you can buy them from a farmer Read more…

The Allotment

September 8, 2014

I’m getting emails and calls from friends wondering where I disappeared to this summer. “I’m holed up in Ireland and the UK writing my novel,” I told one, who tracked me down when I’d inadvertently Read more…

Mother-in-Law Fried Bananas

August 12, 2011

I’ve been trying all week to post the recipe for My Mother-in-Law’s Pisang Goreng (a.k.a Best Fried Bananas Anywhere), and each morning when I’m all gung ho to make them I’ve been stymied…. by the bananas. Rule Read more…

My First Night in Bali

July 17, 2011

If you had told me twenty-six years ago that I’d be in Ubud, today, eating black rice pudding off my own menu… No. Not a chance. Yet here I am, slinging the stuff I first Read more…

Happiness is Someone to Make a Tart For

January 19, 2011

I suck at baking, especially in Bali. You might be too if you lived here. Flour and sugar just don’t behave in the tropics the way cookbooks assume they will. Or maybe it’s me, my Read more…