The scene: our local grocery store, after work the Tuesday after Labor Day. It was a long day, and I wasn’t terrifically engaged with the task of meal planning for the week. As I wandered the aisles absently, out of the blue I was struck by the strangest inspiration. I needed to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Fancy Dessert’
April 13, 2009
Living The High Life, Sabres-Style
So last week our dear friend Katebits reported that she had attended a Sabres game in Buffalo, and in the doing, sat in the really, really, really swanky seats. How swanky, you ask? So swanky that they have waitress service, to bring all the food and drink you could desire directly to you [...]
September 22, 2008
A Cooking Update
I have had a tremendously lazy blogging week, probably because I’ve had a very feisty cooking one. I made a few new recipes this week, shook up our “in a rut” eating patterns, and then sat down with my laptop and thought, “I don’t have the energy at all to write about this”. [...]
September 20, 2008
Wherein We Feel The Need… The Need For Cheese
Whew! What an exhausting week! We’ve been meaning for the last six days to write a post about our marvelous trip into New York City with Kristin, but every evening we’d get home from work and just collapse in senseless heaps on the couch. It’s been rough, and strange, because we can’t [...]
June 15, 2008
A Super Summery Treat
Even though it’s not technically summer yet, it’s feeling full-on summery these days. It’s hot and humid, and we’re all feeling pretty damn lazy.
The living? Is easy.
So this week I decided the best thing to do with my six quarts of borderline overripe strawberries was to make ice cream. I used the [...]
May 11, 2008
Happy Boomer Day!
Mother’s Day means we pull out all the stops for Boomer, and “pulling out all the stops” means a fancy-schmancy cake from Chez Alice in Princeton.
Boomer selected the “Pink Passion”, which is layers of sponge cake with passion fruit and raspberry mousses. This is kind of an adventurous choice for us, but the rationale [...]
November 24, 2007
IPB Gives Thanks… For Dessert
Thanksgiving is, for me, a day of self-indulgence. We don’t entertain (having Kate the Great up from DC doesn’t count), we wear pajamas all day, and this year we ate in front of a hockey game on TV. I love the idea of doing all kinds of stressful, inventive and exciting cooking, but [...]
