dessert

Electrolux #splits: A Different Banana Split

You may have noticed that I recently joined the FoodBuzz Featured Publishers program.  One thing I get out of it is a chance for a little extra exposure, but since joining, I’ve heard about various opportunities to write special posts for various causes.  These “Top 9 Takeovers” are events where Foodbuzz asks all their Featured [...]

Fargo part 1 – HoDo Lounge

Our older daughter was going to attend a week-long Japanese language immersion summer camp in middle-of-nowhere, Minnesota (shout out to the camp, Mori no Ike, which she LOVED, offered through Concordia Language Villages).  Since we were driving and going to stay not too far away from the camp, we left our younger daughter to spend [...]

Fast Food: Baklava

My wife made baklava the other day to bring in to a potluck at her office.  I’ve had so many soggy, over-sweetened, stale pieces of baklava that I wasn’t so sure of it at first.  One bite later I was a convert.  It was light, flaky, and had just enough sweetness.  The triple-threat combination of [...]

Sweet Potato Pie

I was always skeptical of sweet potato pie.  I’m not sure why.  I’d say it was the idea of vegetables in my dessert, but I got over that for the delicious Indian dessert made with carrots cooked down in milk, gajar ka halva*.  I had it at a few different restaurants, still just trying a [...]

Croissants

One of my favorite pastries is the croissant.  They can be found at any coffee shop and pretty much any bakery.  I love the buttery, flaky layers that wrap around and around, but many croissants end up disappointing me.  They are either stale, not done in the middle, or not done enough on the outside.  [...]

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