This summer I’ve recreated some of my favorite childhood sweet treats, each with their own comfort chic twist! From s’mores decked out in milk chocolate bacon bars to cupcakes kissed with bourbon, fruit pies laced with ginger spice and avocado popsicles spiked with tequila, my food adventures may have been inspired by fond childhood memories, [...]
Archive for the ‘Desserts’ category
August 17th, 2010
Not so Mellow Jell-o
July 28th, 2010
Market Report: Blueberry Nights
Still bouncing off my summer buzz of everything USA—Team USA, 4th of July, vacas to Vermont, Newport and Colorado, and a recent bike ride over the bridge and into Billyburg for spectacular soul food at Pies ‘n’ Thighs—I decided to co-host a polka-dot themed girl’s night with my Tribe. Using Nini’s apartment and my fervor [...]
July 16th, 2010
More S’mores
I’ve said before that tomatoes, corn on the cob and and watermelon are my quintessential tastes of summer. They’re the barometers by which I gage summer’s seasonal produce, and they’re the foodie taste sensations I covet the rest of the year long. But I have also culled a list of summertime sweet treats that reside [...]
July 1st, 2010
Market Report: Cherubs & Cherries
Love is in the air, and cherries are at the market! Amanda flies in next week from LA, and we’re planning to catch up in the kitchen before we both make our way to summertime weddings; she’s off to a lavish affair right here in New York City, while I make my way up north [...]
June 24th, 2010
Crush-a-belle: Ode to Avocado
There are several indications summer in the city has made her grand entrance. Sundresses and sandals parade down sidewalks covered with tables, crowded with chairs, filled by New Yorkers hoisting fruity cocktails that flow like water, oh yeah, and the subway has begun to heat up like a sticky sauna. Among the other signals of [...]
April 9th, 2010
Strawberry Shortcakes
So catering has sort of been kicking my ass this week, and I haven’t had time to write a proper blog post. This might be a first since starting this blog back in September of 2007, but it’s also the first time Erin and I have attempted 6 jobs in 10 days, and now I [...]
December 15th, 2009
Chocolate-Peanut Butter Anything
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
November 14th, 2008
Market Report: 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 [...]
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