I made these Poached Pears in Chocolate Cups with Raspberry Sauce for dessert after our brisket dinner last weekend. Poaching is gentle, stove-top cooking, and pears are an ideal fruit for this cooking method. The best pear for poaching in my opinion is the Bosc. I prefer Bosc for a few reasons. There is a…
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Happy Halloween! French Chocolate Bark!!!
Here’s a treat even adults can enjoy! Find the recipe here.
You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream Cake!!!
I realize my last post was of the birthday cake I baked for my husband’s birthday, but Sunday my older son and his girlfriend drove up to see us from LA on their way the next day to visit my younger son and his girlfriend in San Francisco. And it just so happens that she…
Mom’s Chocolate Cake
For his birthday this year my husband requested I make my Mom’s Chocolate Cake. Our younger son and his girlfriend from San Francisco celebrated his birthday dinner with us. They were on their way down to Los Angeles for “ the Oscars”, (yes, I said the Oscars) … those who have been reading my blog…
A Gluten Free Chocolate Birthday Cake
Our good friends from our “Chicago Days” who now live in Rhode Island spent the night with us on their way down to Florida yesterday. It was so wonderful to spend some time with them. They were a part of a close knit group of friends we had who, like us, were all transplanted to…
California Toffee Butter Crunch
Between Christmas and New Year’s most of us find ourselves snacking on the abundance of cookies, cakes, and candies, which throughout the rest of the year are not as easily within our reach. But during the holidays it seems even the diehard dieters give themselves a bit of a reprieve. After all it’s the season…
Peppermint Brownies
These peppermint brownies are perfect for holiday entertaining. I served them recently for dessert at my annual latke lunch I’ve been hosting for my aerobic dance class the past three years. It is a moist rich chocolatey brownie with a pronounced peppermint flavor. Peppermint extract added to the batter along with the sugar that has…
Crisp and Chewy (Big) Chocolate Chip Cookies
chocolate Tomorrow I’m taking these Crisp and Chewy (Big) Chocolate Chip Cookies to my sister’s for Memorial Day weekend. I baked them for the first time a couple of months ago. I had seen the recipe in a recent issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine. The crisp and chewy part is what caught my eye,…
French Chocolate Bark
The leaves are only just beginning to turn, Halloween is a couple of weeks away, and yet thoughts of the upcoming Thanksgiving are already spinning inside my head. In our family it’s become “my holiday”, the one that I’ve been happily hosting for some 30 years now, and the one that no matter where we’ve…
Glazed Fudge Cake
The recipe for this Glazed Fudge Cake comes from a co-worker and friend back in the day when I was working at a kitchen specialty shop in Chicago. I have to admit it was a dream job in some ways (not monetarily, of course), but in the respect that I was working at a job…