Halloween officially launches the party season as far as I’m concerned. It’s not like we have a calendar full of swanky events scheduled…I’m counting zero right now…, but having any excuse to get together constitutes a party. Why not? Football, the holidays, and…..Election Night! Whether it’s a raucous group of good friends, or a more [...]
October 2008
I love bread. It doesn't really matter which type of bread — I love it. There are some kinds I enjoy more than others, but when it comes to the hypnotic smell of yeast and the contrast of a chewy crumb encased in a crunchy dark golden crust, I'm hopeless. Nothing compares to home made [...]
Pizza? Did someone say pizza? What pizza? Pizza with Peter Reinhart's dough from The Bread Baker's Apprentice courtesy of this month's Daring Baker challenge host, Rosa of Rosa's Yummy Yums. You'll be able to reference the challenge recipe at her site. That's what pizza. Oh….. But I completely forgot. I know. The first time in [...]
If you’d asked me even at age 25, I’d have told you squash wasn’t something I thought I’d enjoy eating at any point in my life. I’d just begun to experiment with zucchini about then and that’s only because I had a small garden and harvested a few that were more than a foot long [...]
I've had a muffin pan in my cupboard for years that hasn't had much use. The point of it from what I can remember was to create only muffin tops, and not an entire muffin. I guess there are some individuals who prefer eating the puffy crispy top of a muffin and not the entire [...]
There’s a chocolate company here in San Diego that keeps me quite happy – Chuao Chocolatiers. Actually, it’s my husband who keeps me happy gifting me small boxes of their very unique chocolates several times during the year: Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, my birthday, our anniversary… I am thankfully rarely out of Chuao chocolate. I [...]
