A few weeks ago Marc and I were grocery shopping and as we were wandering through the bakery section he spied a cake in one of the cases. It was a rectangular, chocolate layer cake with green filling between each layer and a fudge type frosting on top. When I looked at his face I just knew. For at least that moment in time I had been replaced in his heart… Continue reading
Meyer lemons have finally made it to the stores around here. If you aren’t acquainted with them you’re missing out on some great flavor. The skin of the lemon is orangy and the flavor is soft and mellow lemon. There isn’t any of that sharp tang that makes your face pucker up.
Plain, lemony goodness that will leave everyone wanting more. So, I was shopping and I saw a bag of these beauties in the produce area. Have you noticed we no longer have produce aisles anymore? They are produce areas. Continue reading
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I have a terrible foodie secret.
I have never really liked bread pudding. There. It’s out. You know.
Bread pudding has always just seemed heavy, dense, soggy, and icky to me. And please, the raisins? Ugh. They soak up fluid and the texture just makes me gag. It has been my dirty little secret for years – after all, all foodies love bread pudding, right? Continue reading
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Lofthouse cookies are a recipe that I have been trying to re-create for most of my adult life. I have so many good memories attached to them that eating them is (in most cases) a guaranteed way to lose the blues.
When I was little we lived just outside of Philadelphia in the smack center of probably one of the most historic areas of the United States. You couldn’t drive a mile without passing stone houses that were built in the 1600s and had witnessed war, peace and everything in-between for over 300 years. I didn’t have to learn about the mules that pulled flatboats along the canals because I visited those canals many times, and viewed the faded trails that the animals trudged along day after day. History was a living thing to me, sometimes more real than the world I lived in and I escaped to the woods more than once to hunt for arrowheads, musket shells, and other relics of those who had walked those woods before me. Continue reading
Who does not like chocolate chip cookies?
I don’t know of anyone. Even people that don’t get real excited about chocolate ( and I find people like that a little unsettling, don’t you?) do usually like chocolate chip cookies. It really only comes down to two questions; Chewy or crispy? Thin or thick?
I will be honest with you. I like my chocolate chip cookies to be crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, with a deep buttery -almost-salty flavor. I want them to be thick but not cakey. I am extremely picky about chocolate chip cookies, so when I say that these are the absolute best that I ever had, well I mean it.
Totally. Continue reading
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