Fresh Fruit Season...

The best way to enjoy amazing fresh fruit is with baked good. Feel free to just make the cake and serve it with fresh fruit or roast your fruit to intensify the flavors. A little whipped cream and summer couldn't get any better.


Butter Cake

1 cup soft butter
2 cup all purpose flour
2 2/3 cups sugar
2 tsp baking powder
8 eggs
1 vanilla bean

2 cups fresh seasonal fruit tossed with a little sugar and roasted in the oven


Cream butter, sugar add in eggs then dry. Grease a spring form pan, putting your roasted fruit on the bottom and topping with batter. Bake at 350 till a toothpick will pull out clean.

Sweet wines.....yummy

This is a little shout out to Botrytis that delightful little mold that concentrates sugar and acidity in the grapes of the worlds greatest sweet wines. Every grape is hand harvested when it has reached the peak of its rotten state. “Noble rot” as it is called and it truly is, loves misty lowland vineyard, France, Hungary and Germany being its fondest stomping grounds. Every region has it own story about how this oddity of nature came to be discovered, they all have the same theme. A farmer was unable to harvest the grapes watches in horror as they rot and turn gray and as necessity is the creator of invention when harvest was finally possible, they made the wine. And Tadaaaaa…. Some of the most honeyed,concentrated flavor and aging power in the wine world.

Check out: Sauternes, Hungary and the Loire Valley for some great examples
Serve with: Blue cheese, very lightly sweetened fruit desserts or alone.