Those chocolate prices are expensive. Recchiuti (one of these days I’m going to learn how to spell it!) is $48/lb, and even though they sell them by weight and not by piece, I know from experience that the smaller pieces...

, and unsweetened chocolate — it sounds bad but it is divine) that has the same rules as butter caramel. It’s a few-days only thing. Luckily, I’ve never experienced having much left over :) Over the years...

was this rather luscious sounding dessert (I’d also put in a good word for Martha Stewart’s pumpkin chocolate tart. Link: http://food.sunset.com/sunset/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1119574

- Peter Greweling and CIA The Professional Pastry Chef – Bo Friberg A Passion for Desserts – Emily Luchetti The Sweet Life – Kate Zuckerman The Secrets of Baking – Sherry Yard Chocolate Obsession –...

, but on a Norman family holiday shortly before graduation she realised something: ‘I took a step back, pictured the career mapped out for me and told myself, this isn’t me. I want to do something concrete.’ ‘I realised…I...

Recchuiti makes by far the best fleur de sel caramels (and I’ve tried a lot of highly regarded ones). However, I had some lovely caramels (including salted caramels) from V Chocolates. L.A. Burdicks makes delicious...

vintage cast metal seashell chocolate molds (the kind with mulitple rows of small shapes.) I have about five of them in all different shapes hanging on my wall. I love them both because the motif is one of my favorites, but also...

holiday on a Monday.

& Tea – good local coffee chain Recchiuti Confections – you love or hate these pricy chocolates San Francisco Fish Company – haven’t tried it Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker – Most people like them....

work, since the strong the strong lobster flavor competed with the strong brussel sprout flavor the whole way. [Remember this comment...it’s the motif of the evening.] Toward the end of the dish we struck a lemony sauce...

him his favorite birthday cake (sans the Holiday motif that he got in December) and threw him a little soiree. Nothing says summer to me like chocolate cake with a lemonade chaser! My personal birthday tradition is just for that...

I definitely don’t touch the candy at Dollar Tree unless its your standard Hershey’s or Nestles... I wouldn’t give that Palmers or Franklins crap that is in abundance around the holidays to my worst enemy!

. I’m not sure if it’ll survive, though — the Sole, after all, was able to drive Legal Seafoods out of town a while back. We also went to an office/holiday dinner party at Bocado, before it opened for general...

’s well” kind of day. The hotel was beautifully designed and decorated with Incan motifs. See the photos in the sub-album called “12-06 + 1-07 Argentina” in the album “2007 South America” for some examples. The next morning,...

be here over 4th of July show him what a traditional 4th of July holiday is like with all the good BBQ/Picnic fixings that go with it. Whatever family recipes you may have. My family is greek and all the kids have loved trying...