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Two questions for my readers:
So, have you made it? What were your results? I'm about to give up on white chocolate here!
Tagged with: Food and Drink + White Chocolate + Espresso + Recommendations + Dinner
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Cooking
Questions for the Masses
Two questions for my readers:
- 1. I'd love to hear your thoughts and success/disaster stories about making white chocolate ganache. I've attempted this three or four times...that's three or four recipes; each recipe required multiple tries.
So, have you made it? What were your results? I'm about to give up on white chocolate here!
- 2. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive, reliable, stovetop espresso maker? Even though neither of us drink coffee, and we do have a bare-bones coffee maker, I'd like to be able to offer espresso to our guests after dinner.
Tagged with: Food and Drink + White Chocolate + Espresso + Recommendations + Dinner
- Starbucks Via Ready Brew Instant Coffee & Giveaway
I got a chance to try "VIA Ready Brew" coffee last week, and perhaps you tried it too over the weekend when Starbucks was offering taste tests in their stores*. It was the best instant coffee I've ever tasted, and it was certainly the most expensive...
- Post-oscar Decadence
Of all the nominations, I've only seen...two?...of the films. Ratatouille and Michael Clayton. Which is probably a higher number than past years. We decided to have a sort of 'decadence' dinner. Nothing too fancy, just foods we really enjoy....
- Equator Coffee Responds
A few days ago, I posted about The Shot’s assertion that The French Laundry was using mediocre, expensive coffee in lieu of making a good cup. Brooke McDonnell, the owner and master roaster for Equator Coffee, saw my post and commented in defense...
- The French Laundry's Mediocre Coffee?
I know nothing about coffee except that I don’t like it. But my friend Tim does: He owns a popular coffeehouse in San Leandro that does its own roasting and blending. He forwarded an amusing post arguing that The French Laundry is trying to cover...
- Shf#11: Coffee! Mocha Chip Pound Cake
You know what the first thing I ate this morning was? Uh-huh, that's right. A piece of that cake. Yup. Because you know, it's Sugar High Friday again, and Ronald has asked us all to incorporate coffee into our desserts today. Desserts, schmesserts...