Whenever I visit my sister I get a real kick from watching her baking some of the simplest "Mama" cakes, they remind me of my pastry days at the Drake Hotel making tartes and cakes with an American who had apprenticed in Austria. The Swiss confections are similar with...
Last year when I was visiting Colmar, I stopped into the kiosk at the train station where of all places I found a book of recipes of Alsatian Boulangers . Alsace is close to my heart because it is the region I lived in up until we left Europe for America. The flavors...
What is more Swiss than fondue, chocolate?? Well sure but this is fondue post, that gooey cheese hot and full of flavors, garlicky and wine laden skewered with morsels of bread. Enjoyed on rainy cold day`s with some wine.White from the region of the Vaud on the banks...
It's the day after the fourth of July and I am at work waiting a VIP party,that's about all we had aside from a couple tables at lunch. Surfing the net after staring at a box of milk chocolate for what seemed like hours I search for some chocolate recipes on various...
This last month has been non-stop at work and I felt like crap this weekend, had this nasty canker sore under one of my vital chef tools, my tongue! Won't describe it but it really wiped me out, so I took this weekend sabbatical to visit my mom to get some R&R...
It's a lazy pre-Memorial day weekend, first there is a subway series going on, I hardly had the energy today to put myself in the kitchen or even consider creating a meal! My recipe cards are also a project put on hold, I start to orgnize them in a file and find a...
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