Romy's Baking and Cake Decorating

  Peach Pie Bubby asked very nicely why we haven't had pie, specifically Peach Pie , this Summer.  I know the feeling, the Summer of 2025 was difficult and disappointing in several ways for us and we didn't get to do a lot of our usual activities.  Over the past few years we've had summer get togethers with the extended family and I've usually brought pie.  When I spotted some beautiful organic peaches at just the right ripeness at Trader Joe's, I knew it was time to make that pie Bubby had been wanting! Lovely peaches in my vintage Jadeite bowl I've used  this recipe  from Sally's Baking before. I was confident that aside from the work involved in following all the steps it would be pretty straightforward to make the pie. How silly of me! The plan was to make the pie crust on Tuesday to let it sit in the fridge overnight, make the pie on Wednesday, and enjoy it on Thursday evening. I used  this recipe  also from Sally's Baking for a butter pie cr...

  Lemon Almond Biscotti Our French language group was meeting at one of our members' homes, but we didn't want to have a large potluck. However, the plan was for a few light snacks. Biscotti seemed like the ideal idea! I decided to try  this recipe  for Lemon Almond Biscotti from King Arthur Baking.  I'm a fan of their  vanilla biscotti  recipe and I reasoned the lemon almond one would also be good.  I followed the recipe to the letter but, sadly, I found it rather disappointing.  First of all they were a bit overbaked even before the 30 minutes of the second bake were up.  Next, the glaze curdled and looked unappealing.  Worst of all, I found them to be rather bland.  The lemon flavor was too mild, and you couldn't taste the almond at all.   "Curdled" looking glaze It was still nice to bring them to the event because they were the only sweet treat there. Everyone said they loved them and I was very happy about that....