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Entries Tagged as 'Chocolate'

February 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments · Chocolate, Other Food stuff

Culinate Death by Chocolate Contest is sending one reader, and one food blogger, on a trip for two to Napa Valley to attend the Copia Center’s annual Death by Chocolate Festival on Feburary 23, 2008, featuring a day of chocolate…

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December 11th, 2007 · 20 Comments · Chocolate

This was one of the recipes Alice Medrich demonstrated in her class at Citronelle. In her book Pure Dessert, she described it as the soul of simplicity and was inspired by Claudia Roden in her book Book of Jewish Dessert….

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December 7th, 2007 · 50 Comments · Chocolate, Other Food stuff

It was simply a twist of fate. I wanted to do something special for the “Hungry” Hubby right before Christmas. We always wanted to take a class from Michel Richard ,author of Happy in the Kitchen, at Citronelle. We had…

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September 26th, 2007 · 48 Comments · Cakes & Cupcakes, Chocolate

I can’t believe that it’s already been a year of food blogging for me! What a journey it has been. Even before my first encounter with the blogging tool, I’ve always wanted to document my trials, tribulations and triumphs in…

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August 29th, 2007 · 51 Comments · Chocolate, DB Challenges

It’s time for the August Daring Bakers challenge, and the hosts are yours truly, and the lovely Patricia of Technicolor Kitchen! It was obvious that Patricia and I wanted tarts this time around but the question was more like: what…

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August 26th, 2007 · 32 Comments · Chocolate

Where to start? Alice Medrich’s new book, Pure Dessert is full of delightful and unique sweet temptations. However, none of them seem to be too sugar-sweet in flavor as the premise of her book was to bring out the natural…

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May 21st, 2007 · 22 Comments · Chocolate

I’m back and how I missed all of you! I have kind of slacked off in the kitchen, not really experimenting as much as I wanted to. I had 5 houseguests for 2 weeks and after tearing up the kitchen…

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March 6th, 2007 · 29 Comments · Chocolate

Bouchon — just the name itself evokes cuteness. But what exactly is it? I bought Thomas Keller’s book Bouchon expressedly for his recipe of one of my all-time-favorite food – duck confit. However, browsing through this massive tome and salivating…

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February 23rd, 2007 · 24 Comments · Chocolate, DB Challenges

After our ambitious foray into laminated dough last January, we girls decided to take it easy for this month’s cross-post. There were a couple of wonderful ideas tossed around for our next bake-go-round but clearly since this is the month…

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January 18th, 2007 · 29 Comments · Cakes & Cupcakes, Chocolate

Think quick, what is that one childhood sweet treat that you hold dear to your heart up to this day? Mine is a chocolate cupcake topped with a thick layer of dark chocolate icing. That cupcake was my one of…

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