Category: Dessert

• San Francisco Cupcake Tasting Tour

  After last month’s NYC cupcake tour that put us in a cupcake coma, we decided to replicate the fun and go on a cupcake tasting tour in San Francisco. The cupcake scene in San Francisco is still in it’s infancy compared to NYC. There aren’t many pure cupcakeries in the Bay Area, but the number…

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  October 30, 2007

• Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake

  Hungry Bear and I love good old-fashioned chocolate cake. Nothing beats a moist, tender and airy piece of chocolate cake for dessert. The hard part is finding a recipe that has the right cake texture, chocolate flavor and sweetness level.

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  October 21, 2007

• Pork, Pasta and Strawberry Cream Cake

  After a weekend filled with Korean BBQ, Hawaiian, Chinese and Burmese food, I was wondering what to make for Sunday night dinner. Thankfully, Jane texted me Sunday morning stating that dinner was at her place. Her brother, Garry, was planning on making a slow-roasted pork shoulder and his wife, Karen, was making a strawberry cream…

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  October 19, 2007

• More Spaghetti Bolognese

  Jeff made the spaghetti bolognese and used this simple bolognese sauce recipe by Giada De Laurentiis. It’s an easy recipe that requires minimal prep time and ingredients. Compared to Michael Chiarello’s bolognese sauce that Hungry Bear made in August

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  Chuck

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  October 15, 2007

• New York City Cupcake Tasting Tour

  http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser.swf <!– Hungry Bear and I love cupcakes, but I think our friend, Aimee, is a bigger cupcake fanatic. Last month while visiting Jeff and Aimee in NYC, Aimee organized a cupcake tasting tour around five popular cupcake shops in the city. We even had a scorecard, created by Jeff, to rate the shops and…

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  Chuck

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  October 8, 2007

• Chocolate Devil’s Food Cupcakes

  Jane uses a devil’s food cupcake recipe from the Food Network. The cocoa powder and chocolate brand used is Valrhona, so the cupcakes are pure chocolate delights.

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  Chuck

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  September 19, 2007

• Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

  We had ice cream cookie sandwiches for dessert last Sunday. The cookies for the sandwich are thick and chewy chocolate chunk cookies. The cookies on their own are absolutely delicious with a glass of milk or coffee. Our friends have enjoyed the chocolate chunk cookies many times, so we decided to add a new twist…

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  Chuck

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  September 2, 2007

• Baked Hot Chocolate

  The first dessert I made from the cookbook was baked hot chocolate contributed by Heidi Friedlander, which she developed for Moxie, a popular Cleveland restaurant. I chose this recipe because it was simple to make with only four ingredients and the description in the book made me crave it.

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  Chuck

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  August 20, 2007

• Vietnamese Banh Cuon

  Vietnamese banh cuon are soft rice-flour crepes typically filled with pork and mushrooms. The crepes are traditionally served for breakfast/brunch but we enjoy it any time we can. Hungry Bear and I made banh cuon this past Lunar New Year, and they were a big hit with our friends. If you skip the cha lua…

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  Chuck

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  August 12, 2007

• Pot Roast

  The pot roast recipe is from one of my favorite cookbooks, The New Best Recipes cookbook by Cook’s Illustrated. I liked the results of recipe but I would use all beef stock instead of a combination of stock and water in the future. I think the pot roast would have been a little bit more…

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  Chuck

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  July 1, 2007