Archive for September, 2009

Lemon Lust Cupcakes.

18Sep09

A weird thing has happened.  It’s strange, it’s unheard of.  It may be akin to pigs flying and certain fiery rings freezing over.  The sky is no longer blue and the grass is a little bit less than green. Yes, I haven’t wanted anything to do with chocolate recently. Is it possible to be overloaded?  [...]

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Goat Cheese Tatin.

16Sep09

Some might say it’s a little bit ironic that the best Alsatian meal I had on a vacation that included a tour of the actual, physically real and totally European—complete with the Rhine and lot’s of very, very old buildings—was actually in New York City at the Café D’Alsace.  Yes, even though I may be [...]

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Lemon Bars.

12Sep09

There are very few desserts I like that do not contain chocolate.  When I eat vanilla cake with some kind of pale, lackluster frosting I immediately think ‘oh!  This would be sooo much better with a little sixty-two percent bittersweet.’  White chocolate macadamia nut cookies? Man, would they be more delicious if there was a [...]

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Brown Butter Turtle Bars with Macadamia Nuts.

09Sep09

Someone once told me that ‘the almond is the Cadillac of all nuts.’  Out of context, yes, it makes absolutely no sense that an almond is the nutty equivalent of a Caddie.  But as a well behaved little food blogger—schooled in the house of proper explanation etiquette—most if not all the goodies come with a [...]

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Fresh Fruit Tart.

03Sep09

Francois Payard, I want to love you, I really do.  It’s me I’m sure, not you.  But for the second time in the row, it hasn’t worked out between us.  I know, I know.  It’s my fault—I’ve obviously been overworking or under working everything.  But it’s a trend, and it’s causing me a little distress. [...]

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Colmar. Marksburg Castle.

01Sep09

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