Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 31st, 2010
Oh, coffee. I love it. I love how the bitterness offsets anything sweet, especially a scone or the foamed milk of a cappuccino. I love how, because I only drink it on weekends, it’s always a treat. I love that little buzz that makes me feel like life is the most awesome awesomeness of awesome [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 10th, 2010
I was doubting Dorie when I mixed up the custard for this ice cream. It’s made like any other custard-based ice cream, so I would have sworn that Dorie threw “ganache” in the title just to make it sound fancier and more decadent, when in fact it was just standard chocolate ice cream. Oh, how [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Jul 27th, 2010
I’m putting myself on a diet. And by diet, I do mean a change in my eating habits that I have no intention of making permanent. Beach Trip is in two weeks, and it’s time to buckle down. My normal eating and exercise habits keep me healthy and slim enough to feel good most of [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Jul 13th, 2010
Certain desserts remind me of specific people. Chocolate plus cream plus butter on a big cookie is the perfect dessert for my sister’s husband (although he might pass on the cookie part – and maybe the cream and butter), so I made it a priority to make the tart noire when I saw my family [...]
Posted in chocolate, dessert, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Jul 6th, 2010
Sometimes I wish I was one of those people who didn’t like rich desserts. I think it would keep me from eating a lot of rich desserts. But I am not. I’m prudent enough to cut myself only a modest slice, but not prudent enough to not cut myself another and another modest slice. Never [...]
The best part about having a full-time job is having people to offload desserts to. No, I’m kidding, the best part is the money. No! It’s the feeling of self-worth I get from changing out of my pajamas before noon. Or it’s the belief that I’m making a difference in the world. The knowledge that [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, fruit, tuesdays with dorie on Jun 22nd, 2010
Most of us probably had the same first experience with plain yogurt. You think it’s going to be yogurt, but not quite so vanilla-ey! And then, ew, wtf, this tastes like sour cream. Force down a few bites; toss in trash. That was the end of my plain yogurt experience for several years. And then [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, chocolate, fruit, tuesdays with dorie, whole grains, yeast bread on Jun 15th, 2010
Dave has recently encountered an enviable problem. After starting to exercise a few months ago for the first time in years, he started losing weight too fast. Losing weight. Too fast. So now we’re trying to come up with ways to get him more healthy calories that don’t create much more work. Hard-boiled eggs, peanut [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on May 31st, 2010
With the pace of life picking up as it has been lately, I haven’t had many opportunities to bake desserts. Nearly all of my baking lately has been associated with Tuesdays with Dorie. Making a dessert that someone else chooses for you is fine when it’s one recipe in many, but when it’s all that [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit, pie, summer on May 25th, 2010
The rest of the country (hemisphere, I suppose) is gearing up for summer. Here in the desert though, we’ve been there for a while. This weekend Dave and I hiked over seven miles in 90 degree weather. It’s a dry heat though! (Actually, the hike wasn’t bad at all – it was either shady or [...]
