Anthony Lombardi

I finally got around to making something with rhubarb, and boy was it worth it. I’ve always liked rhubarb in jams and desserts. Sometimes I wonder if it’s really a coincidence that it goes well with strawberry, which happens to be the same color. I wonder if whatever causes the color also causes them to [...]

I made this strawberry ice cream this past weekend from strawberries I bought at a random stand across from a gas station in Saratoga, CA. My fiance Lisa introduced me to the stand and now we go there every year because their strawberries are simply the best around. I made the ice cream the same [...]

This past Valentine’s Day I made apple fritters for the first time. Lisa and I really enjoyed them. They’re slices of apple dipped in a batter, then fried to a crispy deep brown. They’re best served while still warm, dusted with some powdered sugar and cinnamon (in this case, Vietnamese cinnamon). It tasted best when [...]

I’ve made quite a few Christmas treats this holiday season. Here’s some pictures of some of them. This is one of my family’s favorite Christmas cookies.  They’re called Wandering Jews but none of us quite know why.  We also don’t know where our grandma got the recipe.   This is one of those cookies that only [...]

I’ve wanted to try making pop tarts for a while now, and I finally did after finding this blog about it: Chez Pim. My version is puff pastry (instead of pie pastry) wrapped around 2 squares of Ghirardelli chocolate.  I like the airy flakiness of puff pastry.  It works quite well with the chocolate because [...]

One of the simplest frozen desserts to make is chocolate-dipped frozen bananas. It’s a great way to use up bananas that are at the peak of ripeness but that you don’t want to eat right away. There are many recipes around for it, but of the ones I tried I wasn’t satisfied for one reason [...]

This was very tasty. It was the first time I used a lattice cutter. You roll it over the dough and it makes offset cuts. After that you just pull the sides and the holes open up. It was a little tricky in that the dough stuck together slightly after rolling. I had to manually [...]

I few days ago I made some apple turnovers for the first time. They were completely homemade and very delicious. Lisa loved them. My mom actually supplied the apples, and I already had the homemade puff pastry in my freezer. Yum!