Category Archives: Desserts

Today is Secret Recipe Club’s November reveal date and the one that I was almost going to miss if I had not had that nagging feeling… you know, the feeling that you know there is something you have to do, but can not remember what it was for days. Then laying awake in your bed… Read On

Last year, I took Peter Reinhart’s  4-hour bread course at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte. I came home with lots of goodies that day. There were several different classes going at the same time and the bread class attendees were the only ones that were allowed to take their baked and unbaked dough with… Read On

You should know one thing about the Turks: We are crazy for tea, or what we call “çay”! Turkey’s Black Sea region has one of the high tea production capacities in the world and we are in the top list of the nations which consume most tea per capita. We love coffee, and enjoy Turkish… Read On

I have to admit, no matter how much I would like to say that I keep up with  every single thing on my to-do list, the Daring Bakers’ Challenges had taken a back seat for a while. September was flying by and I remembered to check to see what the challenge was. Boy, I was… Read On

The fall, or the autumn as I would prefer to call it, has been teasing us by showing up for a day or two, then letting the hot weather creep back in at mid-80s. Last Friday, I felt actually very cold after months by just walking down from my train stop to the office …. Read On

A while back,  I made a chocolate tart form Lisa’s blog, Tarte Du Jour and said that I would like to try new things, not get into a boring routine and only cook what I am comfortable with. Then I saw Peggy’s post about Secret Recipe Club on her blog, My Fiance Likes It So… Read On