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Warming Up With Cioccolata Calda (Italian Hot Chocolate)

We are currently in Utah enjoying spending time with family. It has been snowy and cold the whole time we’ve been here, which I guess is to be expected, since it is winter. But I must say that living in Southern California for the past year and a half has turned me into a total […]

Milton Snavely Hershey, the founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, once said, “Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing.” With that in mind, I figured I had better help you out by taking the caramel recipe I shared with you yesterday from the realm of fad to permanent popularity. Once you have […]

Today you get double the love from me! Head on over to Rasa Malaysia to read my guest post about one of Squirrel’s favorite foods—shoyu tamago (Japanese soy sauce eggs).

Creamy Caramels Makes one 13×9-inch pan of caramel (actual number of caramels varies depending on how big you make the pieces when cutting up the caramel) 2 cups granulated sugar 8 ounces butter 1 3/4 cups light corn syrup 14 1/2 ounces evaporated milk 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract 1 cup nuts, chopped (optional) 1. […]

German Pfeffernüsse (“Pepper Nuts”) Cookies Makes about 10 dozen cookies 1/2 cup molasses 1/4 cup honey 1/2 cup unsalted butter 4 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup white sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cardamom 1 teaspoon ground allspice 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 […]

I'm thrilled to be featured on Oprah.com as part of Holiday 2009 celebrations. Come see our favorite holiday recipes! As you know from my last post, we are in the middle of the 12 Days of Sharing, being hosted by In Jennie's Kitchen–an event to raise awareness about childhood hunger in America and to support […]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE æbleskivers (little round Danish pancake-like pastries–read more about them here). Last month I told you about my favorite food finds from the Foodbuzz Bloggers Festival, which included æbleskivers from Aunt Else's Æbleskiver. Chad Gillard, the president of Aunt Else's, and his wife were at the Foodbuzz bloggers festival making æbleskivers with their […]

“Rational habits permit of discarding nothing left over, and the use to which leftovers (and their economic allies, the wild things of nature) are put is often at the heart of a cooking's character.” – Richard Olney (1835-1917) If you make slow cooker kalua pig, you are bound to have some leftovers, unless you are […]

Update 12/8/09: I'm excited to be a featured blogger on Oprah.com for Oprah.com's Holiday 2009 blow-out ~ come see our favorite holiday recipes! Japanese home cooking is all about cooking with what's in season. Chestnuts are widely used in Japan when in season in a variety of ways. They even show up in a Japanese […]

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