February 24, 2010 – 11:16 am
Since I love the whole concept of soup for dessert, I was looking forward to trying out this concoction. The creamy, dark chocolate soup (not to be confused with the much-coveted cartons of sweet chocolate-y bliss that we remember from grade school) topped with a foam made from Devonshire (Devon) cream, and whimsical cocoa puffs [...]
February 15, 2010 – 4:41 pm
So yesterday was Valentine’s Day. Was it just me, or did it seem like people made more of a fuss about it than usual this year? My feelings on this Hallmark holiday can best be described as love/hate. One the one hand, all that pink and red crap, the blatant consumerism masquerading as love, and [...]
December 13, 2009 – 4:23 pm
I’m trying hard to keep my holiday baking interesting this year, and my strategy is to integrate unexpected, fun pieces into my cookie presentations. Gingerbread men, rum balls, and peppermint sandwich cookies all have their place, indeed it wouldn’t feel like the holidays without them. But, as your second, or third, or tenth holiday party [...]
December 11, 2009 – 1:52 pm
There are cookie recipes everywhere I turn, a sure hallmark of the holiday season. They’re on the blogs, they’re in my email, and they’re are all over my food mags. They’re at my internship too. It’s the holidays and everyone loves the excuse to bake, including yours truly. I love setting aside whole days devoted [...]
November 27, 2009 – 10:38 pm
It never ceases to amaze me just how fast the biggest meals go rushing by before our very eyes. As cooks we spend days, even weeks choosing our menu, shopping for our ingredients, and stocking our fridges to the gills with containers filled with our raw materials. We cook and cook our hearts out until [...]
November 6, 2009 – 10:34 am
I spend a lot of time mulling over the following question: If [insert friend's name here] were a cake, what kind of cake would [he/she] be?
Those of us who enjoy baking celebration cakes understand the weighty significance of this question, with its myriad of factors to be weighed. Taste is an obvious one, our goal [...]
October 31, 2009 – 12:36 am
**Please consider (Please? Please!) taking a moment to vote for this recipe at the holiday bake-off on Bon Appetit.com (click here). You will find it, appropriately, in the “miscellaneous” category, where you need only click on the picture to vote. Vote early, vote often!**
I think that we’ve all grudgingly accepted the fact that the holiday season [...]
I went out in the heat first thing this morning to meet my friend Nora for breakfast, and was delighted to see all the signs that summer has (temporarily) arrived in the East Village. Steam was rising from freshly-hosed pavement and the bodegas were already putting down the shades over their flower selections to protect [...]
February 23, 2009 – 10:18 pm
I’ve been a little down in the dumps about my job lately because things are moving across my desk at a dizzying speed and I’m feeling sort of powerless about quality control, bound to each successive deadline. I’m not proud of my work and there have definitely been mistakes. In this situation, with no opportunity [...]
February 18, 2009 – 7:56 pm
There was talk of pancakes all week long with no action, so it was really only a matter of time until, well, these happened.
