Tag: chocolate

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/4286148847/" title="Nanaimo 6 by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4286148847_86c9a4447b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Nanaimo 6" /></a> <br /><br /> It's time for the Daring Bakers again, and while this month's challenge presented its own obstacles, It had …

I don't know if I have an old fashioned palate, or if it's my inner historian, or if I'm just plain curious, but whenever I hear about a recipe or a dish that is extinct …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/4190448666/" title="Bourbon Balls 1 by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4190448666_2df87d0c05.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Bourbon Balls 1" /></a><br /><br /> I don't know what it says about the general depravity of my childhood that when I …

This chocolate gingerbread is my desert island dessert, my diet buster, my indulgence of choice. If I had to choose one baked good, this would be the one. Of course, it helps that it's almost …

My darling daughter very recently turned two. The Nuni is growing up -- getting more independent, more vocal, more affectionate, more skilled. She chatters and tumbles and climbs her way through life. …

I am woefully behind in posting my Daring Baker's challenge this month, and I am woefully behind in doing it as well. But this weekend I finally screwed my courage to the sticking point …

I am rather more-ish when it comes to cookies. You will probably not find me waxing rhapsodic about the simple charms of a basic, not-too-sweet butter cookie. I want a little more going …