Delaware Girl Eats

Pumpkin Chiffon Slab Pie with Amaretti Crust

Pumpkin Chiffon Slab Pie with Crunchy Amaretti Crust I’ve got a sweet spot for Amaretti cookies. In fact I have to admit to hoarding the tiny bags of them I buy at the 90-year old Papa’s Italian Food Market in Wilmington’s Little Italy where all things Italian and delicious are imported. About the size of a quarter, they are so easy to just pop into my mouth. Not one or two, mind you, but handfuls. I can’t stop. It doesn’t seem so wrong, after all, since each vanishes in a single bite, leaving behind just a nutty, crunchy memory. The... Read more →

Apple Cider-Brined Pork Tenderloins with Roasted Vegetables

Brining pork tenderloin in apple cider and spices yields a moist and juicy result. Think apples are “As American as Apple Pie”? Think again. Apples as we know them today were not native to North America. When early colonists arrived from Europe, they disdained the tiny crab apples they found here and brought cuttings and seeds from their homelands in order to savor treasured orchard apples in the New World. October being a month for relishing comforting autumn treats, we should be grateful to those colonists even though it turns out that they cultivated apples primarily to make cider because... Read more →