


Karyn Nakhleh: A Pastry Chef Portrait
Mint bark! Peanut brittle! Sucre à crême! These are the little treats my great friend Karyn Nakhleh brought over just before Christmas. She made them all herself. She actually sells them during the holiday season. They were so good! Last Christmas, 6 months...
Thursday’s Thingamajig: Foodbuzz Daily Specials 2/6
Foodbuzz has a Daily Special feature going on for the next 6 weeks. Every day of the week a cool product will be highlighted. I though this would fit so well in combination with my Thursday’s Thingamajig…so the next 6 weeks I will present the Daily...
How hot do you like it?
I was flipping through old pics….yes the paper kind before digital cameras….of a trip I took down in New Orleans. Oh my what good food I had there. So many things to bombard the five senses: great flavorful food, the smell of alcohol on Bourbon lol, the...
Hellish Weekend and Indiana Exchange
I had a weekend from HELL. After an absolutely lovely dinner with the Cheap Ethnic Eatz group I went home. After the initial shock subsided and I confirmed I had not been robbed I realized there had been extensive water damage to my apartment. I live in a high rise...
Bakers Challenge: Croque en Bouche
Well I was reminded with this challenge that its not because you know how to make something that you will always succeed. i have made pâte à choux a many times in my life and always without a hitch basically….except this time. I don,t know why when I...
Thursday’s Thingamajig: Foodbuzz Daily Specials 1/6
Foodbuzz has a Daily Special feature going on for the next 6 weeks. Every day of the week a cool product will be highlighted. I though this would fit so well in combination with my Thursday’s Thingamajig…so the next 6 weeks I will present the Daily...
1 Potato, 2 Potatoes, Blue Potatoes
It’s always fun when you see new exotic or exotic-looking food appearing at your local grocery store. This was the case on my last visit to a Middle Eastern market. They had blue potatoes! I have no clue if I have eaten blue potatoes before but I know I have had...