The white flesh peach cobbler is a very special cobbler because of the white flesh peach. This peach compared to  the more popular yellow flesh peach is sweeter with less acidity. I am using a very old family recipe that gives this white flesh cobbler a very delicate flavor.

  I love it when strawberry season arrives and we love our Old Fashioned Strawberry Cobbler here at the cottage. This is one of my Aunt's recipes and I can remember her making it when I was a young girl. It is a very simple recipe to prepare with a delicious finish. We like to serve it warm with a nice dip of ice cream on top. This is a wonderful dessert and a very special treat.

  We have so many berries on our vines and what better place to go with them than a delicious ice box pie. This is such an easy recipe and one that I make over and over all through the summer. The flavor of this pie is a delicious blend of strawberries and blueberries, a cool and refreshing treat. There is just one problem with this pie, it never last very long here at the cottage, so I have learned to just make two, enjoy a slice today and tomorrow!

  This Fresh Strawberry Freezer Pie is a great pie to have in the freezer for a dessert that is always ready to go. This pie recipe is so easy to put together and it is delicious. I like to keep a couple of these pies in the freezer for unexpected guest or a family dessert on a lazy evening. The pie is very rich with a garnish of whipped cream on the fresh strawberry filling that is in a nutty crust making this a very special pie. 

This Retro Lemon Ice Box Pie with Nilla Wafer Crust is a very common pie in the south. Just about every family has their own recipe and all of them will vary somewhat. My Mother made this recipe and as a young homemaker I continued to make the same recipe. As time went along of course we would tweak the recipe somewhat, but this is the recipe that we finally called "The One"! We have a great Nilla Wafer Crust, lovely lemon filling and our mile-high meringue. Our family loves this pie and hope you will like our recipe, it will most likely be very close to the one you have.

Our Pistachio Ice Box Pie is one of those recipes that is a real go to. This pie is a great combination of a creamy filling in a ready made graham cracker crust topped off with some whipped topping and fresh fruit. This is almost a pantry staple here at the cottage. I like to keep some of these ready made graham cracker crust on hand for just such a pie that I can make on short notice for a husband who wants a special dessert tonight!

When fresh peach season comes we love to go to the near by peach orchards and get fresh peaches. The farmers market in our area always has great peaches, but there is something special about the peach right off the tree. This fresh Peach Galette is a very primitive pie and is so easy to make, but has an abundance of flavor. And of course we like to top our galette with a nice dip of ice cream!

Through my many years of cooking I have acquired several go to recipes for special occasions. Nana's Lemon Pie is just one of those recipes, when you get a call and one of the kids has invited 2 or 3 of their buddies home for dinner, or maybe the hubby is bringing one of his office buddies for dinner. This is the greatest go to pie recipe.This recipe has amazing flavor and it very easy to put together  and it serves up like you have been working on  a dessert all day!

When the holidays would be close, my Grandfather would begin to gather the pumpkins from the field and bring them up to the house. My Grandmother would cut the pumpkins, take the seeds out to clean and dry, then she would roast the meat of the pumpkin. I remember getting to help carve one of the pumpkins, with a funny mouth before it was roasted. There is a very rich smell that fills the kitchen with the roasting pumpkin in the wood stove oven. The pumpkin meat was cooled then she would mash it up and next was the pie. Much later when that pie came out of the oven it was amazing, I can still smell it and almost taste it. I am so grateful to have my Grandmothers recipe for that pie, so that I can re create those memories and share them with family and friends. 

My neighbor gave me a basket full of pears the other day and they are beautiful, plus I have several butternut squash from the garden, it sounds like a great combination to me! I got busy and made a delicious crisp that has all the seasons and flavors of fresh fruit from a grandma's kitchen. This is a very easy crisp to put together and I love the butternut squash and pear combination!

My Aunt Ann wrote that when my Grandmother finally gave her this recipe, it used terms like stoke up the fire in the wood stove and use the fresh milk from this morning's milking. Be sure and use the fresh apples from this years harvest and be sure and set the peelings aside for the preserves and jelly. Well certainly some of our methods have changed but the basics of this recipe are the same. I can still picture my Grandmother taking out a fresh baked cobbler from the old wood stove that sat at the back of her kitchen and the smell of that cobbler, oh my goodness I would sure love a serving of that cobbler, so lets just make it!

When old friends are coming to visit us here at the cottage we will often times ask them what special recipe they would like to have. My friend Molly recently asked for her favorite, a Brown Butter Custard Pie. I was so happy to make it for her it is a very simple pie with a great custard flavor. This is a very old recipe that has been handed down to me. It is very creamy on the inside with very warm flavors. I will often times garnish it with a little fruit that is in season.

We are having a fantastic blackberry harvest this year and the berries are exceptionally sweet this year. We do love our blackberries and always look forward to the harvest and the opportunity to develop some special treat with the berries. This year our special blackberry treat is this awesome Blackberry Swirl Frozen Pie. It has a delicious lemon base with our special blackberry jam swirled into the pie to make this an exceptional pie. You can pull this make ahead pie from the freezer for your unexpected guest. This is a wonderful dessert that I hope you enjoy as much as we have this is a great garden to table keeper!

Our family love's cobblers, I remember when I was a young girl, we were never without a fruit cobbler at our family dinners. If it was summer, we would have fresh fruit cobblers and in the fall and winter it would be home canned fruit from last years harvest, but the cobbler was always delicious no matter what season it was.  We have fresh fruit right here in our garden and what we don't have our neighbors share with us, all the fresh fruit makes for great cobblers here at the cottage. Mixed Berry Cobbler is an old fashioned recipe with a combination of fruits that we have currently in harvest. The fresh flavors of this cobbler is amazing! Today with our farmers markets it is possible to find fresh berries almost year round, making it possible to make this cobbler recipe any time of the year!

I spent a lot of time with my Grandparents on their farm when I was a young person, and one of the wonderful memories I have is going to the peach orchard with my family and picking peaches. My Grandmother would make many different recipes from the peaches but one of my favorites was her hand pies, or her Fried Peach Pie. This recipe is very close to my Grandmothers recipe, but my pies are not fried, they are baked. They could easily be fried but we enjoy them baked and the spice mix for this pie will have you asking for seconds!

This Southern Sweet Potato Pie has been served at our family gatherings since before I was born, and oh my that's a very long time. We grow sweet potatoes in our garden every year so we really enjoy the home grown potatoes for this recipe. Roasting the sweet potatoes enhance this rich and very flavorful  pie making it one of our favorites, from our garden to the table!

Pears are one of our favorite fruits and we love to use them in as many recipes as we can while they are in season. This recipe is a classic crisp with a fabulous walnut crumble on top. The walnuts in the crumble and the pears are a perfect paring making this crisp one that will have your family and friends coming back for seconds. Here at the cottage we serve it with a nice dip of ice cream on top, but it is great just served warm with no garnish.

I remember helping my Grandmother pick cherries and the wonderful taste of those fresh cherries. On the way back from the orchard we would stop by the water pump and we would wash the cherries. She would later very carefully take the seeds from the cherries. Next she would make this amazing filling for the cobbler and then some fluffy biscuits to go on top. I remember watching her stoke the fire in her wood cook stove making sure the temperature was just right for the cobbler, that she would place into the baking compartment of the wood stove. I can still smell that wonderful cobbler today and the wonderful memories that it brings.

I can remember when my Mother would ask my Dad what kind of pie do you want me to bake, he would most of the time say Coconut Pie. The pie was clearly one of his favorites. When I make this pie for my family I always remember my Dad and how he loved this pie. The love for this recipe has certainly stood the test of time because we still love this pie. I enjoy making this for my husband and often times can't get it to the refrigerator before it is sliced, as was the case for this pie, you will see what I am talking about. Hope your family will enjoy this recipe as much as we do.

Our Spicy Pecan Custard Pie is a combination of a custard and some great sweet and spicy pecans. The pecans used in this recipe give the pie a great flavor that will surprise and wake up your taste buds with a special treat. The pie has a crunchy top with a very creamy inside then a bite of spice that will have you asking for seconds!