This year I decided I want to serve chocolate fondue for dessert at our seder. It is fun and festive without being too heavy after a large meal. Plus, it is a fun play on the seder theme of dipping our food. Why stop with dipping the karpas(vegetables) and the maror (bitter herbs)? We can […]
It seems like these days it is hard for me to find the time (or motivation) to make big elaborate desserts. Some days I get as far as standing at the kitchen counter looking at the ingredient list when the sheer number of steps needed to go from a pantry full of ingredients to a […]
If you are a regular reader of this blog it might seem that all I ever eat is sweets. Alas this is not true. I do need to eat mostly other things or, like everyone else, I just start to feel icky. These days one of my favorite foods to keep on hand is quinoa. […]
The baby is now three weeks old and we are starting to settle into being a family of four instead of three. It has been a bit of a difficult adjustment for my older son, who is no longer able to get all of my attention. Knowing that there would be other people around on […]
In the fall I look forward to the eggnog appearing on the shelves at the grocery store. Even though I usually resist buying it until later in the winter it is comforting to see one of my favorite treats waiting there for me. In my family the tradition is to drink eggnog and eat fruitcake […]
Since my kitchen could be mistaken for a candy factory this time of year it takes very little prodding to get me to make “just one more” kind of candy. There is nothing I like making more than candy, which means I often end up with more candy than people to give it to. In […]
