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Bourbon and Chocolate Cherries

Bourbon and Chocolate Cherries

I can’t lie to you guys.  2011 was quite the blogging fail, on my part. For the past week or so, I’ve been walking around, lounging in my house, and chatting at bars about how I needed to write something for this post.  


Bacon… jam?

Types of jams in my life: Traffic jams. Street or shopping-related. Copier jams. Bane of my professional existence. Jammin’. A cookie rager without Ke$ha or Cee Lo?  Blasphemous. Jammed. As in my schedule. I don’t have time for anything these days… And now, bacon jam. To tell the truth, I actually don’t even like bacon. Well, I [...]


Candied Lemon Florentines

Let’s be honest.  I’m not Julia Child.  I’m a baker, maybe on the borderline of pastry chef.  I could be more of a Martha.  But she’s no Julia Child.  Which is perhaps why her recipe for chicken liver pate was an absolute disaster.  I’m not talking about a kitchen explosion, a hot mess, or some [...]


Salted Caramels

Salted Caramels

I ate chicken feet today.  Well, chicken foot.  I only had one — but I would eat them (it) again.  I was at dim sum; the food kept coming, and I really just couldn’t eat that much. I hate to admit that I was one of those little kids that hated vegetables.  My parents still [...]