Featured Recipes
Chocolate Raspberry Valentine Cake
Here are some sweets for your sweeties! Chocolate and raspberries in this cake are delightful for Valentine's Day, and this being National Chocolate Month you may want to add some more chocolatey treats like Chocolate Cream Pie Cupcakes, or Dulce de Leche Chocolate Chip Cake.
It's also Bake for Family Fun Month with a recipe or lesson plan for each week in February. Start the month off with - Let's Get Started Baking! This features a baked Elephant Ears Dessert.
Kosher Cuisine with Marcy Goldman
Tu B’Shevat - 2012
Tu B’Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar is acknowledged and celebrated this year on Wednesday, February 8, 2012. Named a New Year’s holiday of sorts (vs. the larger New Year holiday of fall’s Rosh Hashanah), this is the day also called the New Year for Trees. It marks the beginning of a season where the first of trees to give its fruits (at least in the ancient lands of Jewish forefathers). As with any new year’s should do – it is also a sign to wake up from a winter slumber and embrace spring and newness-on-the-way. From the first fruits, will come more harvest and that is worth celebrating – especially mid-winter!
We celebrate the day of Tu B’Shevat by enjoying fruits, particularly those found in our earliest days, such as grapes (raisins too), figs, pomegranates, olives and dates. . . read more . . .
Sweet, Savory, Decadent, Healthful - All occasion baking with Mani Niall
very January for the past 37 years, San Francisco plays host to the National Association of Specialty Foods trade show, known as the Fancy Food Show. And every year for about the past 15 I have attended; to try the tastiest new foods on the market, learn the latest ideas, concepts and breakthroughs, eat chocolate, gain insight and inspiration, sample chips dips and snacks, meet and network, graze the cheeses and charcuterie, pass out samples for the food companies I am working with, and, as you might have guessed by now, try everything imaginable, anything edible or drinkable, from all parts of the world. On display and free, yours for the taking.
It’s a rough life., . . . read more . . .
