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In our family, one of the Christmas morning traditions has become this decadent shortbread which melts in your mouth.  My sister came across the recipe a few years ago on Smitten, and we’ve been making them ever since.The cookie is wonderfully buttery, with a tiny bit of sweet, the lovely background aroma of espresso, and [...]

If you love deep, rich chocolate then this cake may be for you.  Low-fat it is not, but heavenly it is.  Although it contains stout, this cake does not taste like beer.  It simply uses the roasted malt flavor from the beer to lend to the intense character of the cake, the crumb of which [...]

Can I just say oh-my-goodness YUM!  Let me start by pointing out that I am a huge fan of cookies of all kinds.  The dry and crumbly shortbread, the chewy molasses spice, the sweet and chunky almond-blueberry, the cocoa-rich chocolate sugar cookie, the tart and creamy lemon ricotta cookie,   the colon-cleansing Rocky cookie- I [...]

So this month’s Food & Wine mag came in the mail last week and as is my norm I read it cover to cover and ripped out pages that looked interesting as well as recipes that looked hopeful.  When it came time to decide on dishes to bring to a party this past weekend I [...]