by Brian | Sep 18, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
How many times have you have Chocolate Molten Cake? A lot? Too much? Over it? Lie down on couch. Take your shoes off. Fold your hands. Shut your eyes. Go back, far in time, to a simpler time and space. Take your best memories of chocolate cake and chocolate...
by Brian | Jun 6, 2014 | Cookbook Review
This is about an author and a book and why, if you enjoy chocolate, you want to have Seriously Bitter Sweet in your kitchen. In 2003 chocolate maven Alice Medrich wrote Bittersweet, a primer on chocolate that reflected her 30 years of chocolate experience. Author,...
by Brian | May 22, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Some food items are simply hard to photograph. Soup. Drinks. Flourless chocolate cake. The taste of this cake is exceptional but photographing it is hard. The side is one solid slab of darkness. No grain or texture. Just a mass of dark something. This could probably...
by Brian | Apr 6, 2014 | Recipes
Amber Rose has just published Love Bake Nourish, a baking book that reflects a very distinctive personal nature. She’s a passionate about foods that are seasonal, organic and not processed. She loves different flours and she cannot abide processed sugar. In her career...
by Brian | Feb 4, 2014 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Sour cream and chocolate are intimately compatible. The overlay of flavors in your mouth is rewardingly confusing. Here are two recipes from Mable Hoffman’s Chocolate Cookery, a paperback gem from 1978. The cookie is puffy, but not soft. It bakes to the point...
