“I’m making magic shell for Allison’s birthday present!” I excitedly whispered to my coworkers all last week. Allison’s recent stories of indulging in this childhood treat as her comfort food had put this easily dismissed ice cream treat front and center in my mind.
“Oh wow- I haven’t had that since [...]
Even in the crack of winter, I can’t refuse the blue kiss of sweet ice cream.
Here’s the dream that’s on my mind. A glass with jumbled layers of warm chipotle gingerbread, pomegranate gems, pear sorbet, caramel ice cream, and salty candied lemon almonds.
A melange of textures makes my mouth happy: soft cake, crunchy pomegranate, [...]
This recipe from the chef blog Ideas in Food is the perfect combination of salty, sweet, crunchy, chocolaty goodness. It’s the sort of snack that you want to curl up with on a rainy day, take home to meet the parents, hold in your hands on a long walk down the beach… yeah, it’s [...]
The process of making candied citrus peels reveals several steps in the process with which we can play around with the recipe to introduce some fun variations. We can easily tweak the shapes, flavors, tang and texture of this treat with a slight of hand that will make our gift recipients think we are [...]
Are you looking to start a new holiday cookie tradition? Want a foil to your tried and true sweet treasures? This list of cookies I saved from last year is sure to yield some taste bud wonders of a new kind.
In a wonderful move to keep their Food Editors well fed, the LA [...]
I was just looking over rum ball recipes.
What do you suppose the purpose of corn syrup in a rum ball recipe is?
It’s not like any more sweetness is needed.
Is it just to add stickiness? Like glue?
Is it to act as a humectant? To keep those morsels from turning into hard dry rocks?
We’re [...]
My recent adventures with dulce de leche have convinced me this is what everyone is getting for Christmas!
I’ve seen people raving about the flavors before, but I never understood till kitchen curiosity made me stick a couple of unopened cans of sweetened condensed milk, submerged under water, in my pressure cooker for 2 hours.
The resulting [...]
In addition to sushi, eggs over easy, and cheese, I have to add ice cream as one of those foods that I could absolutely live on non-stop. I mean really, is ice cream really any worse than a bowl of cereal for breakfast?
Ok, that was suppose to be a rhetorical question.
I’m wise to the [...]
Sweets and I made our way to the hopping Mississippi Street Fair Saturday with friends in the humid Portland weather.
Our entry point into the festivities couldn’t have been better as we found ourselves face to face with the booth for The Meadow. Renown for their offering of over 50 varieties of finishing [...]
How do I say good bye to my work place? By resurrecting a pre-blog culinary April Fool’s joke: kitty litter cake!
As I made this latest batch I couldn’t help but wonder if I was putting lipstick on a pig… or strike that and reverse: smearing mud on a Mona Lisa?
For my version to be [...]
