Sweet tooth
I made banana split sundaes today. I made my trademark chocolate sauce but I was missing a simple one for caramel sauce. Here it is: 1/3 cup brown sugar 1/3 […]
Food
Temptation
I finally reached the halfway mark in my weight loss program! 20 pounds off! Everyone around me knows to keep sweets out of my reach. A dear friend did provide […]
Cooking class
I have registered to take some cooking classes. They are called actualized cooking. This is supposed to be the latest trends in restaurant food, like hairdresssers would attend conferences on […]
Slow Food: Tea house
I attended another slow food activity tonight. It was a tea tasting or should I say a tea discovery. It was held at the Maison de Thé Camellia Sinensis. I […]
Pepper
Last spring I bought a pepper plant not knowing it was a hot pepper variety. It bore a lot of bright red “fruit”. When there was the first risk of […]
Trompe l’oeil
Because October is Halloween month, and I had a cooking demonstration to do, I decided to call the activity “Desserts in disguise”. I made candied orange peels that looked like […]