Posted in candy, chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 19th, 2010
The worst part of not loving the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe for the week is having to tell everyone about it. Not only do I feel like a Negative Nellie, but the flood of “sorry you didn’t like it!” comments starts, and, honestly, it isn’t such a big deal. There are many worse [...]
Posted in candy, daring bakers, dessert, gluten free on Dec 24th, 2008
This was the caramel recipe that accompanied last month’s Daring Baker cake. I had no intention of making it, especially since I just barely got the cake made by the posting date. But then it seemed like everyone who made the caramels was raving about them, and I had never actually made caramels [...]
Posted in candy, dessert, gluten free, nuts on Dec 22nd, 2008
This recipe almost didn’t get made. It was the last one I got to on my day of candy making, and I tried to talk myself out of it. I was tired and there was already plenty of candy around. But I’m not good at changing my plans once they’re set, plus [...]
Posted in candy, chocolate, citrus, dessert, fruit, gluten free on Dec 21st, 2008
A few years ago, I spent a couple of weeks working in Davis, California. I loved Davis. I stayed in a bed and breakfast near the university, right near Davis’ cute little downtown. There were all kinds of great restaurants nearby, including Ciocolat, a dessert café. I made a point to [...]
To thank our wedding party, Dave and I gave them gift bags of foods from various places where we’d lived. Among other treats, there was wine from the Finger Lakes region, where we were living at the time and where we got married, salsa from New Mexico, where I grew up, and there was [...]
Posted in candy, chocolate, citrus, dessert, fruit, gluten free on Dec 19th, 2008
I don’t usually do much baking around the holidays. I bake so much anyway, what would I possibly do with more treats? So I’m not sure what possessed me to make five types of candy (in one day!) this year. I’m blaming Jen and all of her flawless confections.
This candied orange peel [...]
Posted in candy, chocolate, dessert, gluten free, recipe comparisons on Nov 30th, 2008
You know how at the end of every month, you think to yourself some variation of “December already?! What happened to November?!” I have a trick for making the days of the month crawl by: make a commitment to write a blog entry every day for a month. Instead, you’ll be thinking [...]
