Cooking
Melissa laughed as she told me one of the topics in issue 74 of Art Culinaire: savory chocolate dishes. If only it had come a few weeks back. Some ideas include "Wild Striped Bass Tartare with White Chocolate and Yuzu Gelée" (something for those of your participating in Jennifer's "Sugar High Fridays"), "Smoked Sablefish with Chocolate Blinis", and numerous others. I've seen Art Culinaire locally at Cody's Books and also at Sur la Table.
- 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...
- Sugar High Friday #1 - Chocolate Bread Pudding With White Chocolate Sherbet
Jennifer at Domestic Goddess has proposed yet another communal cooking and blogging event – Sugar High Fridays: the International Sweet-Tooth Blogging Extravaganza or SHF:ISTBE for short (actually, either one is a mouthful!) Mmm…sweets…sign...
- Shf #13---the Dark Side, With Love From Mexico
Yikes! Talk about late...it's Friday, but not just any Friday. Nope, it's Sugar High Friday. And this month, it's all about Dark Chocolate. Kelli, of Lovescool is hosting this month's event...the 13th edition!...and she's hoping we'll...
- Trial And Error
Or, When a recipe goes wrong. Last week, I made a White Chocolate Pound Cake. I just felt like baking one. I carefully followed the directions, as I (almost) always do. Melted chocolate in the cake, as well as white chocolate layered with the batter:...
- Tips From Art Culinaire
I’m always of two minds about Art Culinaire, the quarterly hardback food porn publication aimed at chefs. On one hand, the editing is slipshod and the recipes are unreliable. On the other, the photos are gorgeous and the ideas are inspiring. A...
Cooking
Chocolate Dinner, Part 2?
Melissa laughed as she told me one of the topics in issue 74 of Art Culinaire: savory chocolate dishes. If only it had come a few weeks back. Some ideas include "Wild Striped Bass Tartare with White Chocolate and Yuzu Gelée" (something for those of your participating in Jennifer's "Sugar High Fridays"), "Smoked Sablefish with Chocolate Blinis", and numerous others. I've seen Art Culinaire locally at Cody's Books and also at Sur la Table.
- 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...
- Sugar High Friday #1 - Chocolate Bread Pudding With White Chocolate Sherbet
Jennifer at Domestic Goddess has proposed yet another communal cooking and blogging event – Sugar High Fridays: the International Sweet-Tooth Blogging Extravaganza or SHF:ISTBE for short (actually, either one is a mouthful!) Mmm…sweets…sign...
- Shf #13---the Dark Side, With Love From Mexico
Yikes! Talk about late...it's Friday, but not just any Friday. Nope, it's Sugar High Friday. And this month, it's all about Dark Chocolate. Kelli, of Lovescool is hosting this month's event...the 13th edition!...and she's hoping we'll...
- Trial And Error
Or, When a recipe goes wrong. Last week, I made a White Chocolate Pound Cake. I just felt like baking one. I carefully followed the directions, as I (almost) always do. Melted chocolate in the cake, as well as white chocolate layered with the batter:...
- Tips From Art Culinaire
I’m always of two minds about Art Culinaire, the quarterly hardback food porn publication aimed at chefs. On one hand, the editing is slipshod and the recipes are unreliable. On the other, the photos are gorgeous and the ideas are inspiring. A...