by Corinne Ritz | Nov 19, 2025 | Baking, Cake, Dessert, Food, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized
Do like cake more than pie? Do you need other options besides pie on your Thanksgiving dessert table? Here are our favorites. Pumpkin Custard Cake is one of my absolute favs. My birthday is in October and growing up, I often requested this as my birthday cake. It has...
by Corinne Ritz | Nov 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Growing up my mom would make Pumpkin Cream Pie for Thanksgiving. It is a delicious pumpkin mousse in a pie shell and topped with whipped cream. Simple and often guests would like it more than the original pumpkin pie. I had a friend who would come to our house for...
by Corinne Ritz | Nov 13, 2025 | Appetizers, Autumn, Baking, Breakfast, Brunch, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Lunch, Pies, Snacks, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
I love a Galette because I love pie, and a galette is like a pie, but easier to put together. A galette can be sweet or savory. You could make a galette for the meal and another for dessert. hehehe If you want to use a purchased pie crust, make sure to buy a sheet and...
by Corinne Ritz | Nov 12, 2025 | Autumn, Autumn Porch Supper, Baking, Cake, Christmas, Dessert, Food, Halloween, Myrna Ritz Approved, Pumpkin, vintage
Soon after I was married, my mother-in-law made a cookbook for our family. It is more than 27 years later and I still have not made everything in that book. And now she is gone and I cannot call her when I am making a new recipe from her book, that I haven’t...
by Corinne Ritz | Nov 2, 2025 | 4th of July, Bread, Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert, Food
Growing up, the best part of my mom making jam, was that we would get to eat the fresh jam on hot fry bread after dinner. Now that I am a mom, I have NO idea HOW my mom had it in here to make fry bread after canning jam, but it did happen from time to time. In the...
