Cooking
This weekend started off with a search for a crepe recipe. Since my computer is in the shop, I didn't have access to my recipe collection including my no-fail crepe recipe. This prompted me to try a great Austrian recipe that used seltzer water! I think I may have to add this recipe to the collection because with a little tweaking it's a keeper. And if the crepe recipe was worth keeping so was the combination of strawberry yogurt and smushed backberries and raspberries that I filled them with.
After our decadent breakfast, Lee and I went to Ghirardelli Square. One trip to a chocolate factory deserves another I suppose and while no longer an operational chocolate factory like Scharffen Berger, it does have some advantages namely the Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival. For $6 you get 5 "samples" of various types of desserts, mainly chocolate ones. For our 5 samples we had a ginger chocolate "moon" cake--which tasted like a brownie, a chocolate cup with lime mousse and fresh fruit, a chocolate dipped krispy kreme donut, a mini chocolate ice cream cone and a blackberry cabernet sorbet that while not chocolate, was out of this world.
While at Ghirardelli Square we discovered that "Frjtz" has opened an outlet of its popular crepe and fries cafe. If we hadn't had crepes for breakfast we might have been tempted! But actually it's the fries or "frjtz" that are the real draw there.
Chocolate, blackberries, crepes; if it tastes good, it's probably worth eating all over again.
- Meet Alice Medrich At Charles Chocolates Postponed
Photo ©Abigail Huller Since the 1800's, the Bay Area has been a delicious environment for chocolate. Early on immigrants like Guittard and Ghirardelli made their fortunes not in gold, but in chocolate and their companies exist to this day. Our cool...
- Basic Crepes Recipe
Crepes are popular all over the world. They are great for just about any meal at all, or even a snack. I've eaten them on the street in France, but also in Asia. In Holland they serve them in proper restaurants for lunch or dinner but never for breakfast....
- Scharffen Berger Factory Tour
A few months ago I went to the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory for a visit to their shop and a tour. The shop has just about everything you can think of that you would need to make something chocolate-y. There are various kinds of chocolate, cocoa...
- Beautiful Friend, This Is The End
Of our Mexican-themed dishes (for a while, anyway). Happy (belated) Cinco de Mayo! For dinner, we had Chicken Chilaquiles and a Cheese Fritatta with Pico de Gallo, followed by Dulce de Leche Crepe Torte for dessert. The chilaquiles: shredded chicken (and...
- Chunks Have Returned!
Sam and I work for the same large corporation — albeit in different divisions — and we are both on the Foodies list. In a recent email thread about tempering chocolate and the chips one can buy for the purpose, she casually suggested the new...
Cooking
Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival
This weekend started off with a search for a crepe recipe. Since my computer is in the shop, I didn't have access to my recipe collection including my no-fail crepe recipe. This prompted me to try a great Austrian recipe that used seltzer water! I think I may have to add this recipe to the collection because with a little tweaking it's a keeper. And if the crepe recipe was worth keeping so was the combination of strawberry yogurt and smushed backberries and raspberries that I filled them with.
After our decadent breakfast, Lee and I went to Ghirardelli Square. One trip to a chocolate factory deserves another I suppose and while no longer an operational chocolate factory like Scharffen Berger, it does have some advantages namely the Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival. For $6 you get 5 "samples" of various types of desserts, mainly chocolate ones. For our 5 samples we had a ginger chocolate "moon" cake--which tasted like a brownie, a chocolate cup with lime mousse and fresh fruit, a chocolate dipped krispy kreme donut, a mini chocolate ice cream cone and a blackberry cabernet sorbet that while not chocolate, was out of this world.
While at Ghirardelli Square we discovered that "Frjtz" has opened an outlet of its popular crepe and fries cafe. If we hadn't had crepes for breakfast we might have been tempted! But actually it's the fries or "frjtz" that are the real draw there.
Chocolate, blackberries, crepes; if it tastes good, it's probably worth eating all over again.
- Meet Alice Medrich At Charles Chocolates Postponed
Photo ©Abigail Huller Since the 1800's, the Bay Area has been a delicious environment for chocolate. Early on immigrants like Guittard and Ghirardelli made their fortunes not in gold, but in chocolate and their companies exist to this day. Our cool...
- Basic Crepes Recipe
Crepes are popular all over the world. They are great for just about any meal at all, or even a snack. I've eaten them on the street in France, but also in Asia. In Holland they serve them in proper restaurants for lunch or dinner but never for breakfast....
- Scharffen Berger Factory Tour
A few months ago I went to the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory for a visit to their shop and a tour. The shop has just about everything you can think of that you would need to make something chocolate-y. There are various kinds of chocolate, cocoa...
- Beautiful Friend, This Is The End
Of our Mexican-themed dishes (for a while, anyway). Happy (belated) Cinco de Mayo! For dinner, we had Chicken Chilaquiles and a Cheese Fritatta with Pico de Gallo, followed by Dulce de Leche Crepe Torte for dessert. The chilaquiles: shredded chicken (and...
- Chunks Have Returned!
Sam and I work for the same large corporation — albeit in different divisions — and we are both on the Foodies list. In a recent email thread about tempering chocolate and the chips one can buy for the purpose, she casually suggested the new...