Today, I was craving for some chocolate and I didn’t just want some dark chocolate sauce to add on to some ice cream or a few squares of 70% cocoa chocolate. I wanted something cakey and soft and intensely chocolaty. Well, I satisfied my craving with this easy recipe from Nigella Lawson’s How to be …
Getting ready for Christmas Eve the other day and skimming through cookbooks to finalize our dinner menu, I came across an old favorite (pre-Nigel Slater), Donna Hay’s Modern Classics 2. While reading a few of her simple cake recipes to get some ideas for dessert, I came across a really easy melt-and-mix Chocolate Coconut Cake …
We were invited to dinner at my brother-in-law’s new home in Barrio Norte where they have been living for a year now since their return to Buenos Aires after fifteen years in Greenwich. The house is lovely and has lots of space for them and their three children and conveniently, my parents-in-law just live down …
We had dinner with visiting Swiss friends, Christian and Daniella, the night before they returned home. They had brought us a his and hers box of chocolate truffles from famous Swiss confiserie – Sprüngli. My husband got the Cru Sauvage selection and I got the Grand Cru selection. The Cru Sauvage is a box of …
I’ve been meaning to write about churros con chocolate for a long time now since it’s one of my favorite things. I grew up eating churros almost every Sunday morning with my grandparents at a little Spanish pastry shop in Manila called La Cibeles that sadly, no longer exists. Now, the only place that still …
Travels with a Gourmet 