A Nice Cuppa

Much ado has been made of the new Espesso, gelatin/foam-like espresso dish that you eat with a spoon, created by Ferran Adria and served in the Lavazza cafes in Chicago. But, really, nothing is new about espresso in semi-solid form. While the Espesso recipe isn’t exactly known, Moveable Feast has an approximate recipe […]

As a baker and a coffee lover sometimes ya just find it necessary to meld the two together. Often I find that the addition of coffee to a chocolate based recipe helps to bring out the chocolate flavor even more. Recently I picked up a copy of Short + Sweet by Gale Gand […]

Oh, Summer, how we loved ye.
And now your glorious heat and sunshine and long lazy days at the beach are starting to fade…
Well, not quite yet. I know we still have Labor Day to get through and that technically the season extends long into September. But I???m starting to sense that ???Fall feeling??? […]

You know how the old saying goes: bigger is better. And it???s fair to say that this is often true. For instance, in the case of airplane seats. Yet there seems to be a growing adoration these days for diminutive things. There has long been a love for mini bars, […]

Matcha, green tea powder, is one of those magical ingredients that can wake up any standard dessert recipe and suddenly make it exotic and novel. Blogging bakers and cooks out there certainly know this secret, and there are scores of fantastic recipes illustrated with its brilliant green hue, like these from some of my favorites:
Keiko, […]

Undaunted by the delightful-sounding, yet ultimately disappointing Blisscotti, I am continuing my search for the perfect frozen coffee treat. I finally determined my criteria for perfection: I do not have to make it, it is readily available, not so expensive that I must forego actual food in order to purchase it, must be […]

If I told you I???m not a huge chocolate fan, would you think less of me? All of my life, I have opted for anything creamy, buttery, and sugary when it came to dessert. I was a caramel kind of girl. Since caramel is sugar, butter, and cream, it makes sense. […]

If you’re like me, you’re constantly battling against the tide of food magazines that threaten to overwhelm your home. I have them in every place imaginable. On the coffee table, in the kitchen, by my bed, in the car … the list goes on and on.
I keep promising myself that one day I […]

Last weekend I happened to be wandering around SFPride???s street festival, when a woman handed me a free sample of a new kind of ice cream sandwich. Biscotti layered with chocolate surrounded super-creamy mint chip ice cream. I devoured the treat, made a note of the name Blisscotti and went about my business.
A […]

With summer comes lots of heat. And that heat means I’m always looking for new, cooler ways to curb my coffee cravings. The inner child in me is always going to love popsicles. Since popsicles are a great treat to cool off with during these hot summer months I figured why not […]