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’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 [...]

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!