Homemade Peanut BrittleGiven my love for peanuts and peanut butter, it’s natural that at this time of year I can’t get enough of peanut brittle. Case in point: after making this batch, I had to hide the tin. From myself. Not my finest moment. But this[...] |
5 Fabulous Foodie Gifts for Christmas 2010Have you made your list for Santa yet? Is it full of all kinds of shiny and sparkly new kitchen toys? Mine definitely has more than a few on it! Last week I shared with you the 30 Gift Ideas: Cookbooks & Kitchen Goodies , which was chock[...] |
Giveaway: DeLallo FoodsMost of you know that I’m an Italian girl. I grew up around Italian foods and traditions my entire life. My grandfather had a commercial-grade deli slicer in his basement and would buy a whole prosciutto leg and slice it thinly as[...] |
Giveaway: Sarris CandiesSarris Candies and I go waaaaay back. The chocolate company is located in Canonasburg, PA, which is only about 20 miles south of Pittsburgh. As a result, when there were fundraisers in grade school, guess what we sold? Yep, Sarris Candies.[...] |
The Weekend Dish: 12/11/2010I hope that everyone had a great week and that the first full week of December treated you well. I unfortunately got smacked with a wollop of a flu/cold thing and so my kitchen time has been pretty nonexistent. Hoping to ramp back up the[...] |
Ask Me AnythingHere’s the scoop. I have been siiiiick. All week. Some kind of flu/cold nastiness. Sicker than I’ve been in quite some time. So needless to say I haven’t done any cooking or baking. Since I don’t have a new recipe for[...] |
Homemade Hot Cocoa MixHot chocolate is my absolute favorite cold-weather drink. I don’t drink coffee and things like tea, apple cider, eggnog, etc. definitely take a back seat to chocolate. I get it from Starbucks, at hockey games, at orchards, and I use[...] |
Fig and Walnut BiscottiI’m Italian and so I have eaten my fair share of biscotti. In fact, I probably ate more biscotti by the time I was 10 years old than most people eat in their entire lives. My grandma made weekly batches and would keep them in cookie jars[...] |
Chocolate Walnut FudgeLast year the cool weather was refusing to go away and I was daydreaming about sunny days at the beach. And you can’t go to the beach and not enjoy some fudge. At least I can’t. And then I realized that I had never actually made[...] |
30 Gift Ideas: Cookbooks & Kitchen GoodiesIt’s the first week of December and some people are into the full swing of holiday shopping. I am actually pretty proud of myself – I only have one gift left to buy. That never happens. Usually I’m just getting myself[...] |