Before anything else: this cake is not a pretty one. It is at its most basic a recipe for chocolate mousse that you stick in a tin and bake in an oven. But oh my, if you like chocolate, this tastes amazing. It’s light and melts in your mouth, yet is impossibly rich. And because [...]
Flowers of Salt
This, for me, is the king of salt. Fleur de Sel (literally “Flowers of Salt”) come from the topmost layer of sea salt before the latter sinks to the bottom of the salt pan. It’s harvested by hand, and if you could see the top of the cork cover in the above photo, you would [...]
Delicious Links this week
Because there’s just so much deliciousness out there I want to share with you, I’ll be featuring weekly “Delicious Links” from now on. Here are this week’s most notable recipes and other food-related links: Chocolate Apple Pie Over at Kayotic Kitchen, amazing looking apple pie (of course all homemade apple pie is amazing to me) [...]
Five to Follow on Twitter
I’ve recently discovered the joy that is Twitter (yes, I’m a bit late in the game!) Now, if you’re already on Twitter, you’re probably following your friends’ twitters (or is it your friends’ “tweets”?)- and I’m doing that too, of course- but I have to admit that some of my favorite tweets come from food [...]
Why your coffee sucks
Sad but true: most of the coffee I’ve been served at friends’ homes have been bad. By that I don’t mean awful and completely undrinkable- just mostly mediocre. The thing is, for me, there’s nothing worse than a mediocre cup of coffee. Now chances are, if you’re using those little packets of instant (or, horrors, [...]
Sinfully Silky Chocolate Buttercream
This- this silky and smooth, rich but impossibly light buttercream- is my favorite chocolate frosting of them all. Oh, I love ganache of course, and the truth is I’ll never say no to the old powdered-sugar-meets-butter frostings of my childhood- but this buttercream, an Italian Meringue Buttercream with melted chocolate mixed in, definitely tops my [...]
