Category Archives: Frozen Treats

What else keeps you refreshed on hot summer days better than watermelon? Maybe the addition of an herb known for its ability to aid in cooling the body, mint! I was prepping for a class on using herbs and decided to give the combination a try. Simple ingredients, simple steps and refreshing on what is […]

Chocolate Day is Tuesday, July 7th and unless you have an air conditioned kitchen at your disposal it is just too hot where I am to temper chocolate. So instead I was thinking along the lines of a cold pie and the idea of adding a little kick began to bubble. I am not a […]

This past week in My Kitchen Witch Alphabet, I wrote about protecting Gaia’s bounty and part of that is making sure that things are used before they go bad. Composting is another way of keeping the community earth healthy; a place for food past its best but once something has been picked or purchased, it […]

With warmer temperatures around the corner, I thought it was time for some outside food fun. Where I live there is even a long weekend starting to help the fun along and after the post earlier this week about flavoured sugars and zesting you need something to do with all that juice. I promised this […]

Valentine’s Day is the day after tomorrow and I have been playing with an “I love turtles theme” as a treat. Turtles mean chocolate, pecans and caramel. Chocolate, vanilla, ice cream, sugars are considered love foods, as is cake. Pecans are connected to wealth so it seemed to me that this combination with the addition […]

During Yule and Christmas, I tend to be fairly traditional. If I am going to experiment it is more likely to be around New Years. A couple of posts ago, I mentioned keeping the crumbly bits of the biscotti for a future recipe. This is that recipe. Semifreddo translates from the Italian as half cold. […]