Archive for the 'dessert' Category

Some traditions really are just for grown-ups

January 6th, 2009

by Lisa
A few weeks before Christmas, I found a recipe for caffe con correto con panna in La Cucina Italiana, one of my favorite food magazines. Basically, this translates to liquor-spiked coffee with chocolate and sweetened cream.  I bought a bottle of Frangelico, which I had hitherto assumed was for people who liked drinks involving [...]

A Christmas Treat: Sugar on Snow

December 24th, 2008

by Caroline
Usually by Christmas Eve, I’ve baked at least half a dozen batches of cookies, but this year for a change, the kids and I made candy for their teachers: salted chocolate pecan toffee, spiced chocolate bark with dried cherries and pumpkin seeds, and, now that we’re in snowy Connecticut, a kind of maple candy [...]

Dessert, (urban) homestead style

November 18th, 2008

by Lisa
Unlike Caroline, I don’t bake a lot. We were joking the other day about our families and how although we have many things in common, there are some major differences. The fact that we eat meat for one. The fact–as she joked–that I’m going “going urban homestead.”  I demurred, but she’s not entirely wrong.
This [...]

Dessert

November 15th, 2008

by Caroline
I’m surprised to find I haven’t written about dessert yet in this forum, since I have a lot to say about the subject. And despite how healthy I try to keep my family, we certainly don’t avoid dessert. We’re just as likely to make an afternoon project of making cookies as making paintings, and [...]