‘Desserts’ Archive

Pink Ladies and Other Candidates February 16, 2010 3 Comments

I’ve been experimenting this week to maximize the deliciousness in a menu I’m cooking for somone’s 40th birthday party on Friday.  I love this menu so much!  It’s meant to be munchies, but for people who like interesting flavors.  Fun, fun, fun!
Apple slices with salted caramel dip will be one of the sweets.  I chose this item because [...]

The Shiny Science of Chocolate August 31, 2009 4 Comments

Chocolate Truffles with Fresh Mint

It’s shiny, it’s snappy, and it’s taken for granted.  How many times in my life have I sunk my teeth into a glossy bar of chocolate without appreciating the science and care involved in keeping this chocolate from melting in my hand?   (To answer my own rhetorical question with basic math, it had to be [...]

Lazy August 2, 2009 No Comments

Coconut Sauce for Fruit Salad or Pound Cake


 There are sweet, cat-stretching-in-sunshine lazy weekends, and there are grumpy, immobilized-by-too-much-to-do lazy weekends. Unfortunately, mine was the latter this time. My laziness today was deep and eternal. That’s right, I changed the course of my life this weekend and have now become a surly knob of a human that still answers to my old name.
Ever [...]