Feed on
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘Chocolate’ Category

Chocolate Contest Winners

Remember this post I wrote about the Scharffen Berger chocolate recipe contest? Well, the results are in. If you’d like to find out about the winning recipes, click here.

Read Full Post »

I probably shouldn’t be tempting you with chocolate right now, given that we’re all trying to shed a few holiday pounds, but I want to tell you about my latest work in print, which appears in “The Chocolate Guide” (Western Edition). The book is edited by the producer of TasteTV, an online food channel that [...]

Read Full Post »

Looky here! Charles Chocolates is offering a 15% discount to all of my readers who make a purchase by December 17 December 21. Simply click the above banner, then enter the promo code LADLEWHISK when you place your order.
I know Chuck personally and really believe in his product. I’ve visited his chocolate kitchen many times [...]

Read Full Post »

This week I am forwarding to you a recipe I discovered last year in Gourmet magazine and just got around to trying. Yes, even professional recipe developers cook from other people’s recipes on occasion!
I want to pass along this recipe because I know many of you will be baking batches of cookies for holiday gifts [...]

Read Full Post »

My Chocolate Collection

I have a box of chocolates in my apartment. It’s not the kind that Forrest Gump picked over at the bus stop, with bite-size morsels nestled in frilly paper cups. My box is a plastic storage container stuffed with solid chocolate bars. It looks very much like an [...]

Read Full Post »

An afternoon of chocolate

What a delicious Sunday afternoon it was yesterday!
I attended a private chocolate lecture and tasting at Rubicon in anticipation of an upcoming chocolate recipe contest sponsored by TuttiFoodie and Scharffen Berger chocolate maker. Recipe contest, you ask? Yes! And it’s a contest for home cooks, meaning most of YOU readers.
The afternoon began with a lecture [...]

Read Full Post »

SF Chocolate Salon awards

If you’re curious to know who won awards at the Chocolate Salon, click here. Have you tried any of the winning chocolates? If so, what did you think?

Read Full Post »

Chocolate Salon report

The SF Chocolate Salon took place Saturday and Sunday, and where was I? Recovering from a hideous case of food poisoning. Something I ate had its revenge on me all day Friday, leaving me draped over the couch, too weak and useless to stand up for more than a few minutes at [...]

Read Full Post »

OK, all you cacao fiends out there, here’s your chance to spend two entire days living, breathing and consuming chocolate. The San Francisco Chocolate Salon takes place July 14 and 15 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Eat your way around the booths, chat with chocolatiers, watch chefs melt, spread and pour; [...]

Read Full Post »

Yesterday I attended the launch party of Charles Chocolates’ new factory store and cafe in Emeryville. You may have seen Charles Chocolates’ chocolate bars and chocolate-covered nuts in high-end supermarkets in the Bay Area, but what you might not know is that CC also has a delicious line of filled chocolates that, until now, [...]

Read Full Post »