every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in Let's Cook, recipes on Oct 23rd, 2008
Making tiny molded sugars – no, not moldy sugars, sugars shaped in molds - surely pegs me as a fussy, fussy girl. Anyone who deliberately takes sugar from its god-given home - the pourable shaker - and hand-spoons it into wee tins has got to be a little touched, right? Fussy.
But…is it fussy, or [...]
Posted in Let's Cook, My So-Called Life, recipes on Sep 27th, 2008
I found myself on a local cooking show, wearing white and standing over a bowl, demonstrating how to make ganache.
“Ganache is really the mother chocolate,” I was saying to the host, “just this simple mixture, but you can use it hot or cold, as a glaze, a frosting, a filling. In France it’s everything [...]
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.
Like you [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, Let's Eat on Apr 29th, 2008
I read today that British researchers are recruiting study participants to eat one chocolate bar a day, for a year, all in the name of science.
Apparently their trial, beginning in June,
…will explore whether compounds called flavonoids found in chocolate and other foods can reduce the risk of heart disease for menopausal women with type 2 [...]
Posted in Let's Eat on Apr 27th, 2008
Strawberries are healthy.
Chocolate - despite every effort to pump its nutritional value - is not.
Strawberries, by themselves, don’t do it for me; out of season, they’re crunchy and flavorless, and at their soft, sweet peak they fall into my mushy fruit category. No can do.
But…put them together?
Now I’m interested.
Most people hold a chocolate-glazed strawberry [...]
