I’ve posted this before but I’ve been making it so often lately I thought I’d share again. There was a time when I wouldn’t touch Zucchini Bread. I found the thought of it totally unappealing. But, when one tosses chocolate into the mix it bears a closer look. When one adds two kinds of chocolate and some walnuts, I have to give it a try. Other than the occasional green fleck, and … Continue reading →
It was a busy weekend. Saturday was the Salon au Chocolat (see below); Sunday was the annual Fall Lunch at the village. The Lunch takes care of the entire day. It starts at noon and finishes around 4:30. After all the food and wine and aperitif and digestif I’m not up for anything for the rest of the day. The menu this year: Aperitif with nibbles Pumpkin Soup Vegetable Salad … Continue reading →
I’ve been baking cookies since I was a child. I’ve baked lots and lots of all types of cookies – drop cookies, cut-out cookies, rolled cookies, pressed cookies, fancy cookies and simple cookies. I’ve baked them on dry baking sheets, buttered baking sheets and oiled baking sheets. This is the first time I have baked cookies on parchment paper. How could I have been so, so, so….. ignorant? stuck in … Continue reading →
Do you like to cook with chocolate? I do…. My problem is I also like eating the results…. even the less than perfect results (or would that be especially?) Sometimes, I exceed my expectations, like with these brownies. And they really are the Absolute Best Brownies If you want to increase your chances of success with chocolate, here are five tips written in association with Thorntons. Five things you need to … Continue reading →
Way back in the begiining of time, every summer, a co-worker would bring zucchini bread to the office. It had lots of green flecks in it. I never ate it. I came close once… The green flecks reminding me of the brownies from my college days. Then I remembered who had baked the bread. Just as well… Mon mari assures me that it wasn't very good. This, on the other … Continue reading →
I won’t take even a smidgen of credit for these… (Okay, the frosting was my idea) But….. These were so good I woke up 3 or 4 times during the night just to blissfully remember how fantastic they were and to be grateful that there were crumbs left for breakfast. I found the recipe on Leite’s Culinaria under the title of David Lebovitz’s Absolute Best Brownie. The recipe appears in his … Continue reading →
Ahhhh…… I see the light at the end of the tunnel – and I'm pretty sure it's not a train. My 'week from hell' went something like this: Sunday night – unknown event. Monday morning I took my computer to hospital. Monday afternoon I'm told it's totalled. I ordered a new one. It would be ready Wed. In the meantime I use very old, very slow, almost-an-abacus, laptop with … Continue reading →
