One of my favorite food memories is that of eating fresh crêpes in Paris. It was fun watching the street vendors making crêpes - pouring the batter on …
Dessert
Strawberry Tartlets with Vanilla Pastry Cream
I love fruit tarts. You know the ones where the fruit is beautifully arranged in perfect concentric circles on top of some vanilla pastry cream in a …
Vietnamese Coffee Ice-Cream
I have never considered myself a coffee drinker. I usually prefer tea. However, I make a notable exception in the case of Vietnamese iced coffee. The …
Chocolate Soufflé {low-fat}
Do you know what you should never do? You should never decide to write a blog post on chocolate soufflés the week the weather forecast calls for …
Lemon Tart
As you can tell from my other dessert posts, we take chocolate very seriously here. We buy Belgian chocolate wholesale in 22 pound bags and we go …
Chocolate Pudding
This is chocolate pudding. Real chocolate pudding. Forget about the stuff that comes from a boxed mix or that is pre-packaged in plastic cups with a …
Cappuccino Marble Cheesecake with Fudge Sauce
This recipe started out as a low-fat cheesecake but by the time my husband made his adjustments, I am pretty sure it lost its low-fat status. He did …
Chocolate Cake with Fleur de Sel Caramel Filling
When my kids were young and it came time to choose their birthday cakes, they cared less about the flavor and more about what shape the cake was going …