Since we got buggie, my motherly instinct kicked in and I have been making homemade dog treats like crazy…sometimes my husband rolls his eyes when I baby the dog too much…but come on, not like I roasted a whole chicken for my dog. (I would actually) Peanut butter and banana dog biscuits. Buggie goes crazy…
Archives for November 2011
Chocolate chip cookies
It is a rainy Sunday. The hubby went to play hockey, turkey stock simmering in the kitchen for Thanksgiving and I am reading my book on the couch. It’s the calm before the storm. I will start freaking out tomorrow. Before the thanksgiving craziness starts, I decided to make him a batch of his favorite chocolate…
Angel Food Cake with White Chocolate Frosting
I had this most divine angel food cake at a wedding cake shop in La Jolla one time. (It was $10 a piece! $$$) and since then I have been looking for that perfect angel food cake – ‘heavenly’ fluffy and moist. I have been looking and experimenting…and then I found this recipe in Italian…oh crap….
Pot roast
I read a lot of health food books. And whenever I am in the middle of one of those books, I feed my husband only greens, salads, nuts, and seaweed. No meat, no dairy, no fat. It’s been a week. Poor guy. I fed him a big bowl of salad last night and he was…
Chocolate pudding bites
I look at a dessert menu first when I go to a restaurant…anyone else do the same?!? no? yes? What’s the fun of having dinner without dessert, right? yes? no? I hate when I’m excited to see the dessert menu and person you are having dinner with said ‘I’m good without it’. Wawawawaaaaaa~~~~ I made…
Pistachio and dried cherry biscotti
I sometimes go on a what I call ‘biscotti phase’. I obsessively make 3~4 batches of different kinds a week. I love biscotti- I feel more grown up. Something about dipping it in coffee, mocha, dessert wine…I feel sophisticated. This one has pistachio, dried cherry, oat, lemon/orange zest. Super flavorful and delicious. Biscotti translate as ‘twice…
Chicken pho
Temperature dropped, I can feel the chill in the air…my Uggs came out so did my appetite for Pho. When we go to a vietnamese restaurant, I usually get beef pho with you know, ‘other stuff’ in it. (Tendon, strip, brisket, meatball, eyeball (just kidding)….) As much as I love pho at a restaurant, I…
Bee pollen honey panna cotta
Panna cotta means ‘cooked cream’…not that I speak Italian…:) But I always liked the meaning of it because it’s, yes, that easy-You just cook cream, add a little gelatin and let it chill. That’s it! Once you realize how easy it is to make, you can make all kinds of variety of it. You can…
Homemade pasta night
My chef friend, John Fernadez is an amazing chef who is classically trained in Italy. The other night, we had our friends over at our place for a ‘Pasta night’. We made three different pastas and tiramisu….Seriously I have never had pasta like that in my life. It literally melts in your mouth! Emily (my dear…