Strawberry Skillet Cake
One of my greatest joys in motherhood is participating in my son's relationship with food. He loves to eat, and eats with a gusto...
Solstice Yule Log
Happy Winter Solstice! Today marks the longest night of the year, the turning of the seasons, the return of the sun. Winter holidays...
Apple & Gouda Skillet Pies
This weekend my family is coming to Wilmington, traveling from places as far flung as Ireland and New Orleans, for a week of...
Muscadine Tartlets
I'll admit that I am not a particular fan of wine made from muscadines (or, for that matter, scuppernongs). But just because I...
Pound Cake with Whipped Cream & Strawberries
This past week my sweet Everett turned one. ONE! This is such a cliche but it's true because I don't actually know where...
Blueberry Sonker
My birthday falls just after the 4th of July, which means that I grew up with a generous amount of fanfare around my...
Angel Food Cake with Berries & Honey
To be totally honest, this cake was a comedy of errors. If it hadn't been for a pure and intense craving for angel...
Naturally Red Velvet Cake
First and foremost, thank you. Thank you for your comments, your emails, your sweet words, and your love. I'm really glad to be...
Cranberry Apple Pie
It is completely possible that I made too much cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving. Actually, it's true. I did. Like way too much. More than...
Apple Rose Tarts
I am absolutely willing to admit that we made these apple rose tarts for Fauxgiving just to see if we could. Because who...
Pumpkin Pound Cake
this recipe originally appeared on Our State In case you missed the signs, it's pumpkin season! Some of you, I know, just squealed with glee....
Apple Cider Donuts
this recipe & story originally appeared in Our State Magazine Fall is, indisputably, the most lovely season. Don’t get me wrong; I love summer....
Muscadine & Honey Syrup
My friend and I were discussing the overabundance of muscadines in her backyard last week when she noted that muscadines are a love/hate...
Fig & Lemon Tarts
Fig season is here and, thanks to my friend Lauren who has both two giant fig trees and the will to harvest them,...
Blueberry Mountain Pie
My birthday falls in the middle of the summer, just after Independence Day, so all of my birthday memories are wrapped up in...
Old Fashioned Strawberry Ice Cream
When I was growing up, my Uncle Kevin had an old-fashioned, hand-crank ice cream maker. I have vivid memories of the family gathering...
Shoo-fly Pie
Dan's birthday dessert request this year was shockingly not a cake (his birthday is the one day a year where I happily make...
Muscadine Hull Pie
It's muscadine season! That wild grape that has inspired hundreds of years of Southern jams, jellies, preserves, pies, and wines is back in...
Pound Cake Banana Pudding
When I woke up last Sunday morning I had an email from one of my favorite college professors, George, congratulating me on the...
Skillet Tarheel Pie
This weekend we headed north to celebrate my dear friend Charlotte's upcoming wedding. Charlotte, lover of many foods other than wings but especially...
Coffee, Banana, & Chocolate Smoothie
I've been subsisting mostly on smoothies lately, particularly this smoothie. Frozen bananas, almond milk, coffee ice cubes, and a tablespoon of hot chocolate...
Lemon Sour Cream Pound Cake
Last week, to much fanfare (in our living room), The American Cookbook was released! All day Monday I got texts and emails as people...
Pear & Pecan Pie
This Christmas we bounced all around the northeast visiting family from every branch of our tree. We started in Wilmington and visited Morehead...
Rum & Coke Cake
Last week Dan celebrated his 29th birthday and in true Rosemond-Hoerr fashion the partying started on Thursday and continued through lunch today. Our...
Vinegar Pie
This season has made me realize how truly, incredibly, overwhelmingly blessed I am. It's been a hard few months, full of happiness and...
Sugar Pie Pumpkin Pie
This time of year, everything is pumpkin. Pumpkin lattes, pumpkin soup, pumpkin beer. And while I occasionally indulge (especially in the pumpkin beer...
Sweet Tango Hand Pies
Strictly speaking, these are sweet tango apple hand pies with a buttermilk biscuit dough and a buttermilk caramel sauce. But that's a heavy...
6/100: Grilled Peaches with Ice Cream & Caramel Sauce
Summer is, without argument, the most magical season. Long days, warm nights, endless possibilities and freedom. Summer brims with nostalgia and potential, all...
5/100 Pender County Blueberry Lemon Cake
Inevitably every year I find myself in a bit of a culinary rut during the months of March and April. After the bustle...
Buttermilk Pie
Strictly speaking, siblings are one of life's greatest joys. Fifteen years ago I was spinning a completely different tale, but these days I...
Chocolate Strawberry Bread Pudding
This weekend we piled into the car and headed along a familiar path up 1-95 to DC. A surprise birthday party for Brit was...
2/100: Nash County Sweet Potato Chess
I've made no secret about the fact that chess pies are the greatest pies that exist. I mean sure, almost nothing beats a...
Chocolates + Almonds
So as some of you may know, and may care, I am training for the Wrightsville Beach marathon this March. Since I'm basically...
Sea Salt Snickerdoodles
I know at times it can seem as though this blog's central message is "I don't like any dessert that isn't pie," but...
Caramelized Plums & Chocolate Pie
Not that there is ever a time of year when I DON'T like a chocolate chess pie, the official season of chess is...
Hummingbird Cake
Two years ago, my little work world changed forever when the darling, amazing, wonderful, fantastic, hilarious Rachael Binning came to the JMM and...
A Day for Pie
Yesterday was the second annual B'Eat More Pie Fest, a feat that means we have officially created an annual pie festival. I am exhausted,...
Cast Iron Cobblers
The past few months I've been on a cobbler making spree. It started with a dinner party, then the 4th of July, then...
Chocolate Raspberry Mini Pies
After almost four years of writing on this blog, posting weekly (mostly) original recipes, I often find myself in a rut. I find...
Cherry Mountain Pie
This time of year, late June and early July, has always been punctuated by the smell of a mountain pie baking in the...
Strawberry & Fresh Cheese Tart
I find that it is often easier to live in the future than in the moment. I'm embarrassed by how many of my...
Chocolate Strawberry Chess
Saturday I had the opportunity to meet one of my favorite people on the Internet, Jenny Lawson, aka the bloggess. I started reading...
Roasted Strawberry Sauce
It's strawberry season! For the past week I've been eating a strawberry off the bush every time I go into the back yard....
Cookies & Cream Cake Roll
You would be surprised how many recipes come from late night conversations with Dan wherein I try to convince him that something exists/I'm...
Jack n’ Coke Pie
Last month a friend of ours was having a party, which means that I was left with the impossible task of deciding what...
Meredith’s Strawberry Pie
This past weekend our niece, Meredith, came up to Baltimore and had a special aunt/uncle & niece visit. This trip was our Christmas...
Ginger Rhubarb Pi(e)
Happy Belated Pi(e) Day! This past Wednesday, March 14th, was one of my favorite math-related holidays. Only because it is also a holiday...
Irish Car Bomb Pie
Last Saturday morning, I was laying in bed talking to my Grammy. She commented on the fact that we'd been eating (making and sharing,...
The Baltimore Bomb
I love Baltimore. I mean, it's not the South, it's not North Carolina, but it's home (for now). This city stole our hearts...
Love(ly) Mini Cakes
This week, two of our close friends got married. It was a beautiful ceremony, the reception was so much fun, and it was...
Mojito Pie
Here's my problem with National Pie Month falling during the month of February- there isn't any good fruit in season. National Pie Month...
Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Banana Pie
It's that time of year again folks, National Pie Month! You may recall that last year, in honor of this most glorious month,...
Baked Apple Crisps
Tomorrow is the anniversary of our first kiss, many moons ago. I know that once you get married other anniversaries are supposed to...
Red Velvet Cake
Today is Dan's 27th birthday. Happy Dan's birthday, internet! I may have mentioned here, once or a thousand times, that birthdays are very...
Brown Butter Snickerdoodles
This year I participated in the first annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. Lindsay from Love & Olive Oil and Julie from A...
Bourbon Pecan Pie
Originally my dessert plan for fake Thanksgiving was to make a classic apple pie, and add some fun how-tos on making the top...
Fall Donuts
This month I decided to give up processed sugar (as well as all processed sugar substitutes). I did it for two reasons. First...
Mint Julep Sorbet
The second recipe I'd like to share from Off the Eaten Path is from one of my favorite Chapel Hill restaurants, Crook's Corner....
Chocolate Pecan Pie
This week Dan's company held a dessert-off. The prize was steep, an iPad2. We really wanted to win. So I gave some instruction as...
Citrus Tart with Blood Orange Curd
Happy Pi(e) Day! I know you thought that, after a grueling National Pie Month in which all you lurking cake lovers were so...
Coconut Cream Pie
National Pie Month has been, in many ways, an amazing challenge. It's challenged me to make and edit essentially the same photograph over...
Winter Banana Pudding
I love banana pudding. I've always loved banana pudding, it holds a very special place in my heart. Unfortunately, bananas don't fit into...
Black Bottom Pie
Usually, Valentine's Day isn't a big deal. I try and make a nice dinner, maybe something special. It's usually grits. I said it....
Chocolate Chess Pie
Chocolate Chess Pie was my grandmother Bobbie's signature fall and winter pie. It made appearances on every holiday table and was the one...
Ginger & Pear Pie
There is something about the combination of pear, ginger, and vanilla that makes me wild. It's sweet but also has this wonderful edge....
Carrot Cake with Goat’s Milk Caramel
It would seem that, somehow, I have become known as someone who hates cake. And I would like to set the record straight....
Lemon Meringue Pie
I find myself completely fascinated by a certain movement that I see happening all around me, across all fronts, to all sorts of...
Salted Vanilla Cookies
I have to admit, I don't make cookies very often. I mean, I like cookies, but when it comes to desserts there are...
Peppermint Fudge
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. That is, that I like the actual day of Thanksgiving more than any other holiday. Christmas, Easter, Valentine's...
Apple Pie Filling, Preserved
One incredible side effect of attending art school is that holiday presents are built in to the whole experience. What should I give...
Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake
Not long ago (i.e. january 17, 2010) I made my first cheesecake. And I was nervous. Very nervous. I was convinced it was...
Caramel Green Tomato Pie
This weekend was a bit of a whirlwind. I took a trip down to Durham to see my family, take some photos, and...
Habanero Peach Sorbet
I have a lot of other things to discuss with you today so I thought I'd get business out of the way first....
Crispy Marshmallow Bars
I know that this is the third week in a row that I've posted a dessert recipe. There was ice cream, and then...
Brown Sugar Peach Pie
Remember that time, last week, when I was all excited about my birthday? How we were going to go eat pie! and see...
Blueberry Fig Ice Cream
I make no secret about the fact that my birthday is very important. As the eldest child, the eldest grandchild on both sides,...
Apple Sage Fritters
About a month ago I started a new job at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, working in their education and programming departments. It's...
Strawberry Lime Tart
This weekend was full of interesting things, such as cookouts (called "barbeques" by all our new Maryland friends (that I have now offended...
Dark Chocolate Coconut Granola Bars
Despite the fact that a large portion of my time (and energy) is dedicated to the art of food, I'm not always a...
Strawberry Rhubarb Hand Pies
I started this post all "this recipe came to me in a dream" but then I realized that sounded a little silly, mystical,...
Blood Orange Rhubarb Crumble
I'm a big fan of crumbles. By definition, a crumble is a fruity pie-filling like base with a brown sugar/flour/butter top crumbled over...
Gingerbread Cheesecake
I know that as far as seasonal dishes go, gingerbread themed things fall in the Thanksgiving-New Years category. I am also aware, believe...
Marshmallow Meringue Sweet Potato Pie
Tonight I attended a potluck for D.C. foodbloggers at Union Row in D.C., hosted by an array of area food bloggers. It was...
Almond Pear Crostada
I was going to write a post about how this Christmas was the first I'd ever spent away from both of my parents,...
Gingerbread Cookies
I think one of the biggest challenges facing couples that are starting out (and cohabiting) is the blending and merging of traditions, especially...
Caramel Turtle Pie
A few weeks ago, I was the wedding photographer for a friend, Candice. Candice is the older sister of my close friend Kellie...
Halloween Berger Cookies
There are two reasons I prefer to grocery shop by myself. The first is that Dan has a bad case of parking lot...
Caramel Apples
One of my favorite things about fall has always been caramel apples. If apples are any kind of in season, I want to...
Cantaloupe Sorbet
Recently, during a B&B stay, Dan and I were served fresh cantaloupe with lime juice and cranberries. And it was a taste revelation!...
Caramel Apple Pie
Internet, meet my food weakness. While mountain pie is certainly the most emotionally important pie to me, I always thought that apple pie...
Julia’s Pie Dough with Lard
When I was in high school, I was a vegetarian. I decided to become a vegetarian for a few reasons. For one, I...
Charm Cake
I know that this is going to be a "duh" moment, but the big epiphany that I had about wedding planning is that...
Lori’s Coca-Cola Cake
We have a winner! Lori DuVall Rosemond's Coca-Cola Cake is the "And Such" recipe contest champion! Now, before you accuse me of nepotism,...
Cranberry Pecan Sandies
You hear about (and see on reality television) people that are addicted to food. People that cannot, no matter what they do, stop...
Pony Magical Mousse Pie
I mentioned recently that my biggest failures always have an audience. Dan's sister Megan, her husband John, and their daughter Meredith have been...
Summer Banana Pudding
This weekend Dan and I went to North Carolina for a family reunion. It was three days of whole smoked pigs, enjoying the...
Chocolate Dipped Cookie Dough Bites
I am that person that lives out of her purse. I lean towards oversized carry-all purses that can hold so many things at...
Bourbon White Peach Pie
There are certain flavors out there that seem as though they were tailor made for each other. Peanut butter and jelly, tomatoes and...
Mountain Pie
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, today is my birthday. I may or may not have mentioned here before that I have a...
Honeysuckle Sorbet
I am a really excellent swimmer. I'm far more coordinated and comfortable in the water than I am on land, and therefore the...
Caramel Fried Green Tomatoes and Ice Cream
One of the coolest things about starting and maintaining this blog is how comfortable I've become in my southern cooking skin. When I...
Cornmeal Cake with Strawberries
This past weekend I had the pleasure of having one of my closest friends from high school, Julia, over for dinner. She's been...
Cilantro Lime Sorbet
So I've started this new exercise regime that I'm fondly calling Kicking My Ass, or, alternatively The Death of Me. It all started...
Banana Cream Pie
This weekend we traveled to North Carolina for my bridal shower. My bridesmaids are my sisters, Lauren and Genevieve, my cousin Mary Catherine,...
Cardamom-Semolina Shortbread Cookies
This weekend Dan and I are traveling to Bainsbridge, Pennsylvania so that he can complete his SCUBA training. He'll be doing his checkout...
Grammy’s Chicken Spezzatini & Molten Lava Cake
One of the most unfortunate things about living in Florida was how far away we were from my mother's side of the family....
Mama’s Cream Puffs (a la Aunt Jessie)
There are two women that I credit for my love of cooking, my comfort in the kitchen, and most importantly, my love of...
Angel Food Cake with Strawberry Sauce
One of my favorite desserts since childhood has been angel food cake. When I was a kid my mother would serve it to...
Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
While I usually boycott Valentine's Day on principle (it's a materialistic holiday that makes my gender look like a bunch of Vermont Teddy...
Lavender Fairy Cupcakes
I have to tell you that I adore cupcakes. I think that they are precious, such fun to eat and make, and liven...
Iced Maple Sugar Cookies
So after making Dan's birthday cake, I had a lot of left over icing. And since it took me ages to finely chop...
White Cake with Chocolate and Strawberries
While I would consider myself a pie person, I also really enjoy cakes, both baking and eating. I think that my penchant for...
Chocolate Mousse
This year, because of an impending wedding, my father's new dive charter, and the fact that all of my siblings are either in...
Sweet Potato Pie
Usually, I don't make sweet potato pies. Though they're not the same as pumpkin, they're similar enough that I don't usually feel the...
Tarheel Pie
Growing up, my grandmother made a chocolate chess pie. It is essentially a chocolate pie. It's so rich you'll have a hard time...
Pear Gruyere Pie with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
As I've mentioned before, I just adore Pushing Daisies. Too bad the average television consumer seems to prefer shows about slutty Atlanta housewives...
Pumpkin Bread Pudding
I made two pumpkin pies this past week. The first pumpkin pie I made had NO flavor. Something about the pumpkins I used...
Apple Cup Pies
I know, I know, two pie recipes in a row? What can I say, I love pie (I'm a baker at heart. I...
Apple & Pear Pie
Now, as someone who was raised in "real" America and currently lives in "fake" America, my take on the American experience is well...
Fresh Pumpkin Pie with Spiced Whipped Cream
Pumpkin pie was one of the first things that I learned how to make. Using canned pureed pumpkin, my grandmother made it frequently...
Shortbread (or Short’nin’ Bread)
Having five siblings, it's easy to say that the temperature at home was always...