Italian cream cake

maple pudding cakes (pouding chomeur) baked in a bath of cream and caramelized maple syrup

Baby barmbracks, an Irish tea bread with sherry

Top shelf egg nog ... with grand marnier, dark rum, and brandy

Five-minute, four-ingredient cranberry schmutz

Seriously simple apple tart with hot buttered rum raisin sauce

cranberry tart with cognac-soaked raisins, tangerine zest, and dark chocolate

Crispy French Toast

Rich blue cornmeal and applesauce pancakes

Nectarine lemon balm tipple ... a sweet and ice-cold antidote to summer's heat

strawberry lemon verbena refrigerator jam with candied lemon slices

Jacques Torres' heavenly chocolate chip cookies

Rhubarb compote-swirl cornmeal coffee cake

Rhubarb baked oatmeal

potato & fiddlehead fern gratin

Savory breakfast bread pudding with fiddleheads, sausage, caramelized leeks and red spring onions.

spring salad: wild cress, butter lettuce, wild violets, hazelnuts, avocado, red spring onion, champagne vinaigrette

stinging nettle soup

candied wild violets

Wild ramp cream cheese ... a perfect weekend breakfast partner

10-minute rhubarb vanilla conserve: a bouquet of rhubarb, a vanilla bean, a handful of sugar

Rhubarb crumble

simple cheese and apple salad

simple leek and potato soup with ham for chilly spring evenings