truffles

Welcome to the Festival of Food Carnival. In celebration of Valentine's Day, we're sharing recipe ideas for "love foods" or foods to share with loved ones. Hosted by Diary of a First Child and Hybrid Rasta Mama, you're welcome to join us next time, or ...

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, I thought it would fun to showcase a recipe I use to make some Dark Chocolate Truffles.  What I love about truffles is you can do so many things with them by adding different flavorings, various coatings, a...

The other night, Jordan was texting with her cousin and watching a movie. Since she was paying more attention to my phone than Camp Rock 2, I suggested we stop watching the movie so she could focus on texting (and then I could watch HGTV). She replied, “I am watching the movie, Mommy. I...

Today is the final day of the third annual Napa Valley Truffle Festival, where "world-class cuisine meets cutting-edge truffle science." The festival got started last Friday, with a reception at La Toque restaurant, and continued over the weekend with...

Is there another food season as anticipated as Girl Scout cookie season? Sure, spring and summer give us wonderful fresh produce, but you can only get Thin Mints and Samoas once a year. This year, I ignored the cute kids at the supermarket, walked past them as they hawked their famous cookies. “I can...

Twice a week I take a class at the gym. It's the perfect class for me because it's only 25 minutes.

Pin ItAmaretto and Irish Coffee truffles - deceptively easy idea for Valentine's Day, or just because <3 Happy (almost) Valentine's Day! I'd hoped to get this post up much sooner, but this past week got the better of me and in those precious hours t...

Never has a recipe fail turned out so good.

Portion control, I believe it's called. So now through Christmas I'll be making and baking--and posting, for good or ill, the results.

Basic Chocolate TrufflesI've been making chocolate truffles for about two weeks now. Yesterday I'm in the kitchen chopping up even more chocolate when my daughter walked by and said "geez...are you making chocolate truffles again!"Yes little girl, I am...