Peanut butter and chocolate, the perfect pair. This past weekend was spent browsing through cookbooks and foodie magazines. The inspiration for this cookie comes from the Bouchon Bakery book where they did their take on an oreo with perfect scalloped chocolate shortbreads. The cookies were...
Ingredients: 6 oz dark chocolate, chopped 1/2 cup unsalted butter + 1tbls 1 cup light brown sugar, packed 1/2 cup granulated sugar 3 large eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup flour 1 cup pistachios, chopped Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare an 8x8 baking dish by buttering the bottom with 1 tbls...
There is no better comfort food than pizza. Mac and cheese pulls a close second but what I love about pizza is you can put almost anything on top and it will still taste delicious (almost anything). This pizza is topped with ricotta instead of...
These pork meatballs topped with apricot jalapeno jam are a nice combination of sweet and spicy. If you plan on entertaining in the near future, it’s great to stick toothpicks in them and serve them individually. Or if you’re not about to host a soirée,...
I never was a coffee or espresso lover until I moved to NY and became addicted to cafe hopping. It was when I chanced upon the cute lower east side Berkli Parc cafe that I discovered the deliciousness of slipping some bourbon into a latte....
The perfect combination between spicy and sweet, this jalapeño jam will definitely awaken your tastebuds. The jam contains jalapeño peppers (some with seeds in tact) which gives off a mild to hot heat. The apricots help to sweeten the jam and add in a citrus...
Christmas time to me means tons of baking and entertaining. Of course I wanted to get festive by creating something that incorporates candy canes. It's also been a while since I've made cupcakes and so I set out to find an extremely moist chocolate cupcake...
I always feel as if the winter months call for more entertaining than normal. Maybe it's something about the cold weather that entices us to call up our closest friends and spend days inside by the fire catching up and digging into delicious food as...
It's inevitable that leftovers are piled high in the refrigerator after Thanksgiving is over. Your first go-to leftover concoction is a nice juicy turkey sandwich, but once you've had about 10 of those and yet it still hasn't made a dent in that mound of...
In my opinion, blueberries should just be renamed to "bright little bursts of joy". Juicy and beautiful in color, blueberries really do brighten up any recipe. The US Highbush Blueberry Council challenged bloggers to get creative with their recipes by pairing blueberries with one of...