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Here is the recipe for the famous pie seen in the film “The Help” …minus the special ingredient! This was super simple to make and really delicious with just the right amount of chocolate. Make it for your Oscar party this weekend and you will be WINNING! Recipe link Food & Wine Mag/ Aug 2011
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: dessert, film, food & wine magazine, Minny's Chocolate Pie, movie, ocsars, oscar party, recipe, the help | 1 Comment »
Project Open Hand, a San Francisco non-profit food relief organization that provides meals and groceries to the city’s most vulnerable residents is now selling their popular homemade peanut butter to the Bay Area masses. Check out their story… Purchase it at Project Open Hand – 730 Polk Street or SF Whole Foods markets. Also, find the peanut butter [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES, REVIEWS OF PRODUCTS | Tagged: Bon Appétit, food, homemade, natural, Peanut Butter, peanut butter milk chocolate pudding, Project Open Hand, RECIPES, review, San Francisco non-profit food relief organization, short documentary | Leave a Comment »
As soon as I saw Rick Bayless’s avocado ice cream on Top Chef Masters in 2009 I knew one day I would make it. When I received a box of lovely ripe avocados from the California Avocado Commission this recipe instantly popped back into my head. I decided to cut the recipe in half and [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: Avocado Ice Cream, California Avocado Commission, dessert, food, foodbuzz, recipe, rick bayless, Top chef masters | 3 Comments »
Mike’s childhood friend, Claudia Pruett, dropped off samples of her new product called 5 Minute Focaccia Mix. We received all 4 flavors (original,rosemary,raisin,choc chip) but decided to go with rosemary for our first time. Here is a video of us making the fragrant and yummy rosemary bread. The process was fast & easy but the [...]
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Whoopie! Mike gave me this Red Velvet whoopie pie mix for xmas. We decided to wait and make them for a party we were attending because I didn’t want to be tempted to eat them all… which I would have easily done. The directions were easy to follow and they turned out like expected (although [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: baking, dessert, everyday, food, RECIPES, Red Velvet Whoopie Pie, stonewall kitchen, whoopie pies | Leave a Comment »
We spent Valentine’s day at home again this year but I didn’t mind because we made S’mores from Recchiuti Confections. Mike and I picked up a S’mores kit last time we were at the Ferry building in San Francisco and this was the perfect occasion to break it out. It’s a grown up version of [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, Northern CA, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK, RECIPES, REVIEWS OF PRODUCTS, San Francisco | Tagged: dessert, food, Recchiuti Confections S'mores Kit, RECIPES | Leave a Comment »
We had an end of the summer BBQ and needed a dessert. S’more pie immediately came to mind. I had seen a couple versions online and I ultimately went with Smitten Kitchen’s take. I was limited in time so I did get some help from the Keebler elves for the pie crust (which I wouldn’t [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: baking, food, marshmallow, RECIPES, S'more Pie | 1 Comment »
Rice pudding was a lot easier to make then I thought. The vanilla beans looked so pretty and the flavor was outstanding. We used an entire vanilla bean instead of half — what a waste not to. We served it with strawberries as suggested the first time but the next we used ripe banana slices [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: dessert, food, food & wine magazine, Gale Gand's Vanilla Bean Rice Pudding, RECIPES, rice pudding | 1 Comment »
Mmmm Mmmm good! I needed a fancy dessert for a Valentine’s day at home. The milk chocolate Soufflé in the February issue of Bon Appétit called to me. It was insanely easy to make and more importantly could be done ahead of time. The end result was light, airy, puffed perfection. I passed on the [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: Bon Appétit February 2010, dessert, eggland's best eggs, food, Milk Chocolate Soufflé, RECIPES, valentine's day 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yes, I thought this would be gross. Mike finally decided to use the 6 kiwi’s that had been sitting in our fridge for 2 weeks. He transformed them into a uniquely creamy Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. It was surprisingly good and very sweet. It had a fresh, clean taste that reminded me of a [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: Ben & Jerry's, dessert, food, Kiwi Ice Cream, RECIPES | 1 Comment »
It was time to test the new chocolate ebelskiver mix from WS. We used three different fillings and they all turned out wicked awesome but the caramel was the best! If you want to see the full process of making an ebelskiver check out my Cinnamon-Bun Ebelskiver post. The recipe for Chocolate Ebelskivers is on the [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: chocolate ebelskiver, chocolate filled pancakes, Chocolate Nutella Ebelskiver, dessert, food, RECIPES, williams sonoma, williams sonoma ebelskiver mix | 7 Comments »
Happy holidays everyone! For the first time we decided to make sweet gifts for the family. To our surprise everything turned out perfect. I thought making toffee and fudge were recipes for disaster but they were really easy to prepare. Add some tins from the dollar store and you have a very festive gift. Tip: [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: coffee toffee, Creamy Chocolate Fudge, dessert, food, holiday gifts, RECIPES | 1 Comment »
I’ve been c-r-a-v-i-n-g lobster. The kind of lobster I had growing up in Massachusetts when my family would hop in our station wagon and drive to New Hampshire in search of the ultimate lobster meal. Since moving to California, long gone are the days of cheap, simple lobster eats. Lobster tends to be insanely expensive [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, Main Dish, RECIPES, REVIEWS OF PRODUCTS, Side Dish | Tagged: food, Foodbuzz 24 24 24, fresh, lobster gram, lobsters, maine, RECIPES, review | 7 Comments »
When I saw this recipe I knew I had to make it. It looked sooooo good. The end product was more bread-like then the usual moist buttery pound cake consistency but still wonderful. When nutella is cooked the potent flavor of hazelnut transforms into a lovely light chocolate. As suggested we served this with homemade [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: dessert, food, food & wine magazine, nutella pound cake, Nutella-Swirl Pound Cake, oct 2009, RECIPES | 6 Comments »
Yum! I was looking for a way to use up some peaches and this is what I found! Ice cream covered in lemon marinated peaches, buttery graham cracker crumble and a cinnamon syrup. The little crunchies make the sundae. If you’re smart you’ll double the recipe. Honestly, you really don’t need the syrup. It’s grand [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: Cinnamon-Crunch Peach Sundaes, dessert, food, ice cream, Madagascar Bourbon, RECIPES, vanilla, Williams-Sonoma Ice cream starter | Leave a Comment »
OMG! These are just like the real deal. I didn’t think Chef Keller would put his name on a product of poor quality. He teamed up with Williams- Sonoma to produce the iconic chocolate Bouchon mix and mold. The mix easily made 24 sensational corks. Tasty tip: If you want big Bouchons fill the molds [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, REVIEWS OF PRODUCTS | Tagged: baking, Bouchon Bakery, chocolate bouchons, dessert, food, RECIPES, thomas keller, williams sonoma | 13 Comments »
This has to be the easiest bread recipe in the world. It contains 5 ingredients and no yeast and no waiting for rising. From start to finish it took 35 minutes. I have to be honest I had doubts that this would be edible. I was envisioning a big solid rock emerging from the oven. [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: baking, Bon Appétit May 1996, Caraway Seeds, cooking, food, irish, RECIPES, White Soda Bread | 2 Comments »
This year we again stayed home for Valentine’s day. We feasted on fresh Dungeness crab and then indulged in this…. To accompany the chocolate we had strawberries, apples, bananas, pirouette wafers and rice crispy treats. Good stuff! The cute sweetheart fondue set was my “V” day gift from Mike last year. Flashback: Valentine’s day 2008
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods | Tagged: chocolate, cooking, dessert, fondue, food, RECIPES, valentine's day 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas dinner was at our house this year. Here was the menu: Filet mignon with port sauce and horseradish cream, radish apple and onion salad, sherry vinegar and molasses glazed carrots, potato mushroom gratin and caramel banana bread pudding. It was a meal to remember! Pics… Everything turned out fantastic. I would make any one [...]
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, Main Dish, RECIPES, Side Dish | Tagged: baking, Bon Appétit, bon appetit magazine, caramel banana bread pudding, cooking, food, horseradish cream, port sauce, potato mushroom gratin, Radish Apple and Onion Salad, sherry vinegar molasses glazed carrots | 1 Comment »
This is a fancy looking dessert without much work. The crumbled amaretto cookie was the ingredient that brought the WoW factor. Delish! Tasty Tip: Next time I would add some vanilla to the marscapone to sweeten it up a bit. Recipe link
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Mike made this all by himself… the Liberty apples from our produce delivery worked wonderfully. Serve with a big dollop of ice cream! HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEKEND! Recipe link Tasty Tip: Mike used this pie crust mix from Williams-Sonoma. It worked perfect.
Filed under: Dessert / Baked Goods, RECIPES | Tagged: baking, cooking, Dutch Apple Pie, food, food & wine magazine, RECIPES, thanksgiving | 1 Comment »
