://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/sanfrancisco/messages/122375.html I went late in the afternoon and they were pretty much sold out. They had these intriguing little jars of cookies with unusual names and wrapped in paper...

to others kind of difficult, though, lol. The other day I told someone to "take the recipe for the orange cake, but make it with lemons and add more zest, and then use this buttercream but mix half of it with ground almonds and...

Well, I’ll say first that your wedding cake was probably a lot prettier than ours will be. We’ve done several practice cakes and they are simple and elegant, but not creative, intricate, or grand in any way....

. Do not cook it longer, as it gets watery fast. Combine with your favorite sauces and hot foods, which you have cooked/warmed separately, and mix immediately before serving. Favorite flavor combos: with italian seasoning, sauteed...

cheaper and better than going out. There are a lot more chicken breasts or italian sausage or pork loin or flank steak or catfish or steak tip nights (whatever we make these into) than there are porterhouse or tuna steak nights.

everything, but we should have good food that would cover most dietary restrictions. Our menu started with a tail hour with a selection of Italian cheeses, crackers and warm focaccia with garlic & rosemary (this is when we...

" of it. Italian? Fuggedaboudit, too much fat in the cooking. I find I have to budget very carefully, have one “hound”-ish meal per day (or every other day) and eat fish fillets, turkey burgers, chicken breasts...

favorites) linzer cookies TKOs (Thomas Keller oreos) alfajores (with sweetened condensed milk-free dulce de leche) judiau’s kifli Italian cookies from "Dolce Italiano" plus some others I can’t think of right now

I make buttercream and eat it from a bowl. Or have canned baked beans and toast or canned spagetti or zoodles with toast or actually just lots of toast.

's Applesauce Cake. And cookies! Okay, I’m totally offtrack. Mass produced peanut butter balls and lots of brownies it is! :) Maybe some foccacia type breads. I have a recipe for Italian Cheese Bread Ring made in a bundt pan...

Wow, Sir. Do I feel inadequate! I really wanted to attempt royal icing for the first time this year but was vetoed by Marine son, who would stand for nothing short of buttercream icing....sigh. Maybe I’ll try it at Easter...

beans and toss them with a dressing, buy the bread from our cake baker, buy some gallons of mesclun mix from Costco and dress them with oil-and-vinegar, and beg my Italian godmother to fix up a ton of veggie lasagne. We’d...

to work this hard to try a sip of wine. The food at Taste has a lot of promise. There seems to be a nice cheese plate of Italian peccorino’s, one of which is wrapped in walnut leaves. There’s Alaskan Halibut cheeks...

cookies made of meringue and ground almonds with buttercream sandwiched in between. (see, e.g. http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2005/10/french_chocolat.html) The latter definitely require a pastry bag, and the former...

been marinated in bottled salad dressing. - Buttercreams that taste like shortening.