every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in Let's Bake, Let's Eat, Let's Get Away on Jul 23rd, 2008
Every August, the heat here ceases to be punishing heat and becomes cruelly disciplined heat. That is our signal to escape - we flee Kansas by driving straight through an Iowa haze, further north by the hour, looking for a lake. When we finally stop in Duluth, Minnesota, we cross a bridge that [...]
Posted in Let's Get Away, Tweenager on Jul 16th, 2008
Here, from a month ago at the Louvre, are two lucky Josephines.
One is lucky because she is a twelve-year old visiting the Louvre. The other, well - she was Empress of France. But she had to sleep with a little madman in epaulets, so…who’s luckier?
I don’t often make Josie - named for a [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, Let's Eat, Let's Get Away on Jul 15th, 2008
We’ve been home from Paris for over a month now. I finally stopped consuming whole baguettes and wearing as little makeup as possible, because one day I looked in my American mirror and decided my American face could use a little bronzer. So the kir-colored glasses are off - but what’s left, what [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, Let's Get Away on Jun 29th, 2008
I started with a plan to demonstrate making white chocolate curls.
But Saturday afternoon, it was too hot outside and too cold inside. I attacked the half-frozen, half-melting stuff for a while and then, disgusted, shoved the chocolate aside and reached for some limeade. I opened the fridge and poked around the shelves, looking [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, Let's Get Away, recipes on Jun 25th, 2008
Why not?
After all, I walked up a very steep hill today.
I’ll climb the Matterhorn tomorrow if it means more muffins.
They are just muffins - mini-muffins, little two-biters, at that - but they are two eye-opening bites of very good chocolate. Even as an adult, chocolate in the morning always seems like a treat.
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