I love crepes! I love Nutella! I love whipped cream, although it's more of a supporting actor in this yummy Nutella Crepe Cake. This project was not hard at all. Crepe-making is easy, if time-consuming. Otherwise, I didn't work any harder than mixing together creamy good things. I nabbed the recipe from www.sweetenquick.com, a now-inactive website. Nutella Crepe Cake 24 to 28 crepes [...]
Aren't we supposed to read ourselves silly when we go on vacation? You'd think so, but I only fell further and further behind. I blame the eye-candy scenery out the car window. And the size of the book. Anyway, back at home, I'm catching up, plowing through the pages. And playing in the kitchen again. The weekend food around here includes Cheesy Tuna Mac [...]
We weren't likely to get Ding-Dongs as treats in my childhood home. Why would Mom buy treats in a box when she could talk us into baking them ourselves? But who knew how to make a Ding-Dong back in the Nixon era? Anyway, I feel a tad deprived. Now we have internet cooks who offer up the cake version of a Ding-Dong. [...]
I don't know if you have boarded the salted-caramel flavor train, but I climbed on it long ago. The gateway drug was Sanders salted caramel chocolates, which you can buy at Costco (Don't order these wonderful things. Go. To. The. Store. Chocolate doesn't ship well, and certainly not in July). I haven't had my fix lately, so this recipe for Salted Caramel Apple [...]
Love those layers! Do you like strawberry season as much as I do? And have you met Chef John, who posts many of his masterpieces over at AllRecipes.com? When I saw the berries on top of his Strawberry Crepe Cake, I put it on my bucket list right away. In reality, the cake contains very little fresh strawberries, but those [...]
Fast Sunday. It’s probably not in the spirit of things to stuff ourselves once the fasting is over. But, to our credit, we feasted with half dozen fruits in this Glazed Fruit Bowl. And we added just as many vegetables to the Brunch Strata. (We won’t mention that it also called for cream and cheese and cream cheese.) We even ate fruit in the [...]
This week, I opened a novel with an interesting premise: a black family moves to a research institute housed in a grand old mansion, in exchange for teaching sign language to a chimpanzee. Can such a thing be done? Would you read on to find out? Well, I would. The chimp was volatile. Offer a banana and he might chuck it back at you, [...]
This has been a frantic weekend. My church friends and I hosted a large event, and we made sure it was loaded with chocolate. I mean, get a load of how many separate chocolate ingredients go into that Chocolate Bundt Cake. We served it with Cool Whip, but I just ate a piece of it here at home with no dressing-up at all it [...]
Perhaps it was a date to the prom. Or maybe the realtor. “They’re offering full price!” Then again, you might be one of those lucky bums who once won the sweepstakes. What’s the most exciting phone call you ever got? I think I’d like to get the one author Alain de Botton received. On the other end, an executive at London’s Heathrow Airport explained that [...]
Oh, boy, another novel from the days when it was fashionable to say everything in the longest way possible. The characters are “discomfited” and “deprecating” when they could be just plain embarrassed or dissing. The last time I attempted this feat, the author was Nathaniel Hawthorne and I had to give it up or it would turn me off reading forever. But this time, it’s [...]
