I love anything made with the classic chocolate-peanut butter flavor combo. Anything. But because I avoid eating processed foods, I’m constantly trying to recreate the joy that is a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
In my kitchen, I’ve tooled around with frozen chocolate-peanut butter ice cream sandwiches, chocolate-peanut butter cupcakes filled with Nutella, a chocolate-peanut butter [...]
Archive for the ‘Desserts’ category
December 15th, 2009
Chocolate-Peanut Butter Anything
April 12th, 2009
7,000 Cookies Later
Unless you live under a rock somewhere out in East Bumblefuck you must have heard that London’s lauded fashion haven TOPSHOP, opened last week to multi-million dollar business and mobs of people queuing up for blocks, waiting in line for hours, just to go shopping (and meet Kate Moss).
The Dinner Belle catered the four-day launch [...]
March 5th, 2009
Meyer Lemon Raspberry Crêpes
I have a confession to make: Despite cold temperatures, I get a major jonesing for fresh, summer berries this time every year. Alas! Fresh berries are not in season, and I just won’t eat Driscoll’s boxed decimation of a berry.
Another confession: I’m sort of a seasonal food snob…there, I’ve said it!
Such snobbery means I mostly [...]
November 14th, 2008
The Big Apple
There’s nothing like a freshly picked Pink Lady from the Union Square Farmers’ Market, unless it’s a McIntosh you’ve picked yourself from an upstate apple orchard. I went home to Buffalo a few weeks back and returned to my favorite childhood farmto pick apples and pumpkins. The fields were polka-dotted orange with future jack-o-lanterns, while [...]
September 11th, 2008
Strawberry Fields (forever)
I go home for a few weeks every summer. This year I broke it up into two smaller visits, which meant I’d be there first for my family reunion and later for my next-door neighbor’s wedding, a.k.a. first for strawberry season and later for tomato season! Both family events were drama-filled excuses to dress up [...]
July 15th, 2008
With Sweet Comes Sour
I’m a dweller. I dwell. On disappointments, recipe missteps, drunken misgivings from the night before, and of course, break-ups. Lately, the Italiano has been the sole subject of my dwelldom. Little things are reminding me of him everywhere. I know that Italy didn’t even make the Euro finals, but I can’t stomach the idea of [...]
April 17th, 2008
Candy and Corvettes, by Erin
Despite having lived in the world’s greatest culinary melting pot for 11 years now, despite a long line of Italian grandmothers preceding me, and despite operating one of the hottest catering companies around, I admit my tastes and food preferences are often less than refined. Kimberly scolds me for this.
Even as a small child and adolescent, my [...]
March 26th, 2008
Blueberry Muffins
I’ve gotta be honest, I’m DYING for spring to finally spring, because after spring comes summer! The sooner the better. The idea of wearing a bathing suit does not frighten me; bring it on. The long days, summer cocktails, trashy novels read beachside, espadrilles, and best yet, all the fresh fruit and berries. Specifically, I’m [...]
February 8th, 2008
Banana Bread and Butterflies
I like guts on a page. When I’m reading a novel I always have to fight the naughty temptation to skip ahead through paragraphs of detailed description and just cut to the chase. The end, final page, finale, tidy conclusion—bring it on already! I only remember the dialogue, the human exchanges, the drama, the [...]
January 26th, 2008
Chicken Pot Pie and I don’t care…
Baby, it’s cold outside, but it’s so cozy its sweltering inside my 5th floor walkup. I just made Chicken Pot Pie and Cinnamon Sugar Cookies. So, my home smells like comfort but feels like Miami in July! You see, I have no control over the heat in my apartment, and in what must be my [...]
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