Trick or Treat: Homemade Halloween Candyfeatured
Growing up in the Northeast, October always brought a little something special in the air. A tinge of excitement, anticipation, promises of tricks and treats to come. The leaves are a shock of color. A big glass of fresh apple cider, or maybe even a piping hot apple donut, could be right around the corner. For sure, a night of revelry could be counted on. Halloween, a night where anything goes, where imagination is king and candy corn is queen.
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Eggplant Parm of My Dreamsfeatured
Holy Smokes. This Eggplant Parm is friggin amazing. I was sitting at the kitchen counter back home in NJ, hunched over a Tupperware container holding what might as well have been hidden treasure. I ate quickly, stealing furtive glances at the door. I’m a thief. This eggplant parm wasn’t meant for me.
My big brother T had come home as well to help me plan my bridal shower menu, and well, there are a few things that are a given whenever we go home. 1) My mom makes us drink healing potions of Chinese herbal teas and soups (that’s for another post), 2) We start our diet of a bagel a day, and 3) Our Italian childhood friends bring us leftovers from our #1 most requested dish – homemade Eggplant Parmigiana.
It sounds funny now that I write about it, but yes, it’s true, my brother and I each have our own eggplant parm suppliers.
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In unrelated news…featured
I’M MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Butterscotch and Chocolate Pot de Cremefeatured
This week’s Project Food Blog challenge is to complete a step-by-step photo tutorial that is easy to follow and so alluring that you will have to drool-proof your keyboard.
For this challenge, I wanted to feature an extraordinary dessert that has haunted me ever since I first tasted it: Town Hall’s Pot de Creme. This decadent sweet ending is an uber-luxe version of an American classic — creamy butterscotch pudding layered over rich dark chocolate pudding, topped with shards of buttercrunch toffee. Best of all, it’s served in a huge oversized cereal bowl. No wussy servings here 🙂
I shared this bowl of pudding-liciousness with some gals who have as much appreciation for the cook’s holy trinity (butter-sugar-cream) as I do.
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