What do you do when the holidays leave you with bits of nuts and fruits? Dump all those odds and ends in a bowl, stir in some melted chocolate and call them clusters. These won’t win any beauty awards, but they are great to have on hand when a craving for salty chocolate hits. There [...]

Currently cooking out of Pure Dessert by Alice Medrich. I pride myself on my caramel skills. Every year around Christmas, I start making caramels. Chocolate caramels, cinnamon caramels, coffee caramels, mocha caramels, orange caramels, and on and on. Depending on how generous I’m feeling (and how many I can hide from Bryan), some of those [...]

Currently cooking out of Pure Dessert by Alice Medrich. I generally find the idea of candied citrus peel more appealing than the actual product. Usually, the peel is too bitter for me, even when it is coated in sugar and/or chocolate. But, after making the pink grapefruit granita, I had a mound of grapefruit peel staring [...]

Currently cooking out of Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass. This was one of the first recipes I marked out of this book. Besides the novelty of making my own popcorn (Wait! Popcorn doesn’t grow in microwave bags?), I love caramel popcorn. My family has a caramel popcorn recipe that we’ve been [...]

Obviously, this isn’t from the grains cookbook, but if you try these nuts, I don’t think you’ll mind the diversion. In fact, you might just get down on your knees and thank me. What can I say? I simply can’t stop baking sweet things (or eating, them, either)! If I ever get motivated to hand [...]