When I saw that the recipe contest on Food52 this week was “Your Best Recipe with Cereal” I knew I wanted to submit my recipe for one of my favorite candies, Caramelized Rice Krispy Bark. When I went to get the recipe off my blog to submit it to Food52 I realized that I never [...]
One of the things that is tricky on Passover is coming up with good portable snacks. The kids are off of school which means I don’t have to worry about packing lunches, but I still need snacks for all of our outings. Sure, we eat a lot of nuts, dried fruit, and string cheese but [...]
One of my favorite flavor combinations is raspberry and chocolate. The sweet/tart quality of the raspberry perfectly cuts through richness of the chocolate making for a wonderfully balanced dessert. This is especially important with parve baking. It is easy to make intensely rich parve desserts but it is a bit more difficult to make desserts [...]
The Jewish holiday of Purim is just two weeks away and my household is already gearing up. We have figured out our costumes and have been listening to Purim music nonstop. (Although, in the interest of full disclosure I should probably mention that we listen to Purim music nonstop year round because whenever I give [...]
There is something about food in miniature that makes it so much more fun to eat. I absolutely love miniature foods and whenever I see mini serving dishes I can’t help buying them. Somehow in miniature the same everyday food that seems too basic to serve to company suddenly becomes party worthy. Would I serve [...]
I can never have a Spanish churro without thinking fondly of my trips to Spain many years ago. There is a cafe in Madrid that is known for their churros con chocolate, and the best time to get them is in the very early morning, after a late evening of carousing. One such morning, my [...]
I like to push the envelope a bit with my desserts. The classics are delicious, and it is important to have good recipes for all the basics, but sometimes it is fun to push the desserts a bit further. That is exactly what I did with these cookies. Dreidel sugar cookies would be a welcome [...]
This recipe is in memory of my grandmother who passed away last week at the age of 88. Every time my grandparents would come to visit us in California we would go with them to this small independent grocery store that carried, among other things, 10 pound bars of gourmet bittersweet chocolate. The store would [...]
When I was a growing up I never felt deprived on Passover. Quite the opposite in fact. In an effort to make sure the kids didn’t feel like Passover was too much of a hardship my normally health conscious mother would fill the pantry with all kinds of sweets and treats we didn’t usually get [...]