by Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Feb 18, 2015 | Cakes
Le St Honoré est une des grandes créations du 19eme siècle. (The St Honoré is one of the great creations of the 19th century.) Source We watched Haute Cuisine a couple of years ago and were taken by the scene when Mazet-Delpeuch prepares a cake for Mitterand. In the...
by Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Oct 4, 2014 | Cakes
My memories of Carrot Cake are a dense mass of gooey brown cake with long shreds of partially cooked carrots that stuck to the roof of my mouth – and normally with pineapple thrown in for some extra-gooeyness. Definitely not good memories. But we ran across this...
by Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Sep 29, 2014 | Treat
Black cocoa powder – who knew? We recently saw a recipe in Food & Wine (May 2014) for these cookies. We probably would have skipped right over it except for a strange ingredient: black cocoa powder. We’re always up to track down an esoteric ingredient...
by Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Aug 26, 2014 | Libations
One of our favorite summer libations is a Gin & Tonic: the perfect blend of cold & tart work together to cool us off on long, miserable, hot, Texas days. However after experimenting with some relatively expensive tonic waters we realized the stuff in the...
by Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Aug 24, 2014 | Treat
An update on my favorite childhood dessert. Granny (my mom’s mom) was an exceptional southern cook. Fried chicken, greens, fried okra, & creamed corn were her go-to dinner. But, banana pudding was a special treat reserved for Sunday afternoons. My...
