Recipes

I love when people come to join us from NYC at our weekend place in Pennsylvania. Firstly, I relish good company, and…

It’s another Macaron Monday and I’m still on a persimmon kick even though I made these for the first time way back…

We had a photo shoot at work that involved exotic fruits furtively purchased in Chinatown. The staff gobbled everything up afterwards. Guavas,…

I haven’t made brownies in what seems like a lifetime so I especially wanted to add something a little extra to them…

It’s that time of the year again. The denouement of red carpet season. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Sunday…

One day I will do a post on my storage house filled with endless amounts of collectible glassware. I could seriously open…

I am dangerous when I clean out my spice cabinet. Add in the other leftover bits in my fridge and here’s another…

I love making Valentine’s Day treats but enough already with the red and pink. Here’s some bright yellow to break things up…

Hard to believe the fondant leftover from the Gingerbread Exploded Meth Lab was repurposed into these pretty Valentine love letters.  Talk about…

These were the result of a fail. Not in taste but in shapes. My first idea was to make a tricolored rolled…

Marshmallows are something I never dreamed I could make myself. Once I learned a few years ago, I made batch after batch.…

There are so many cute baked good variations on Valentine’s Day boxes of chocolate, I had to throw my version into the…

Brittle has been on my list for waaaay too many months. It was time to do something about it and Valentine’s Day…

The celebration of love is two weeks away and the next posts here will be showcasing some  new Valentine’s Day themed treats. In…

The temperature drop made me do it. These are decadent as all get out but the freezing cold this past week had…

This past Wednesday I was invited by The Blogger Connection to attend a great NYC event sponsored by San Pellegrino, their Almost…

When cleaning out my spice cabinet recently,  I set aside some things to try to work into macaron shells. Smoked paprika and…

Ever since I whipped up a batch of Smitten Kitchen’s amazing Apple Cider Caramels for Thanksgiving this year I keep dreaming up different…

With endless amounts of egg yolks left over in my fridge from making macarons, the cheap way out is always to fire…

Last September two of our dearest friends got hitched. In lieu of a gift, they asked me to make the favors for…