Every Christmas as a kid, my mom would buy peppermint chunks and white chocolate melting wafers to make homemade peppermint bark. As a food-a-holic these days, I naturally wanted to check out the ingredients for the classic melting wafer and was hit with a devastating surprise: Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel And Palm Oils, Nonfat…
What do you do with biscuits that have suddenly gone stale overnight, but you still want to enjoy their yummy goodness? Make bread pudding if course! Bread pudding can be made either sweet or savory and dressed up with all sorts of add-ons—whatever you can imagine. The base is the same: milk and eggs and…
As I went to the freezer this afternoon to grab a spoonful of vanilla ice-cream, this is the message I found etched into the hard surface of the frozen dessert! I laughed aloud as I read the message my husband had left me. We sure do love our ice-cream! I posted this status today on…
Frank and I first had carrot halva as part of an Indian buffet, and we immediately knew we had found nirvana. Who knew such a simple dessert—made with carrots!—even existed! That was over two years ago, and it’s still one of our favorites. Last year, Frank and I took a road trip, and we ate…