Cookbook Club – Thug Kitchen The cookbook for April’s Cookbook Club was Thug Kitchen by Michelle Davis and Matt Holloway. I chose the Chocolate-Dipped Tangerines. Go to my Cookbook Club site to see what all the other thugs made. For now – my dish! You can pretty much count on the fact that if you…
Tag: Dessert
Cinnamon Chouquettes
Chouquettes are small round pastries sprinkled with pearl sugar. They’re often eaten in France as an afternoon snack. You can fill them with custard to make cream puffs. These airy pastries are pretty cool, because they puff up without any kind of rising agent. Apparently the high water content makes steam when baking, which is…
3.14 Pi(e) Day
March 14 is Pi Day (3.14 get it?), or as I like to think of it – Pie Day! If you’ve been following along at all, you know that pie is one of my favorite things. So a day dedicated to getting as much of it as possible into my pie hole has some pretty…
Mango Lassi Pie
What would be in the running for my favorite holiday? Well, Pi(e) Day, of course. March 14, aka 3.14, get it? I had convinced a bunch of friends to help me celebrate this mathe-magical day. Even though it fell on a Tuesday, they had all agreed to make homemade pies (go here to feast your…
Lemon Poppy Seed Scones
Cookbook Club – Alice’s Tea Cup February’s Cookbook Club was an afternoon tea party! We used Alice’s Tea Cup by Haley and Lauren Fox. I chose the Lemon Poppy Seed Scones. Go to my Cookbook Club site to see the snackable spread of scones, sandwiches and more at our adorable afternoon tea. For now –…
Berry Cream Brûlée
This is a dessert I learned from my friend Sheana, and have adopted into my repertoire because it is dead simple but so tasty. Anything you serve in ramekins and brûlée can be put forth at a dinner party as a fancy dessert. No one will know that this has 3 ingredients and takes minutes…
Coffee Cocoa Magic Cake
Magic Cake seems to be the internet food trend of the moment. If you follow food blogs, you’ve heard of it. Even my brother knows what it is. He told my mom about it, and she has been dying to try it. And who am I to deny my mother, who has so patiently put…
Banoffee Pie
Have I mentioned that I like pie? Sheana texted me to say that my incessant talk about the Pineapple Cream Pie (check out my Guessipe) and Long-Chee Pie (check out my Guessipe) that my cousin and I made for Chinese New Year had inspired her to buy pie crusts during her last trip to the…
Lychee Longan Pie
For Chinese New Year, my cousin had the genius idea of making a Lychee Longan Pie. As far as Chinese desserts go, canned lychee and longan are better than most in my opinion. You just open the can and eat the fruit, but it’s way better than that red bean nonsense that passes for dessert…
Amaretto Coffee Cupcakes
I know that cupcakes have been all the rage lately, but I have to admit I haven’t been swept up by the craze. I just can’t get super excited about paying $6 for a single cupcake at some shop dedicated solely to the art of the cupcake. With $6 worth of ingredients, I could make…
A.O.C. Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #24 A.O.C. is one of Suzanne Goin’s restaurants to regularly make Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list (Lucques is another, which I haven’t made it to yet, but it’s on my list to make it to their Sunday Supper!). A.O.C. has a beautiful courtyard patio with big doors into the restaurant and bar, vines creeping up the surrounding…
Mexican Hot Chocolate Pot de Creme
My family decided to do Iron Chef Christmas – special ingredient: Cinnamon (go here to check out the fierce competition)! Each dish would be judged on flavor, presentation, and creativity. Cinnamon immediately made me think of Mexican hot chocolate, which I adore for its dark spicy sweetness. But just making Mexican hot chocolate seemed boring,…