It’s amazing how Boston is only a three hour drive away and yet I’ve only been there a few times in my life. Taste Tester and I visited this past weekend and had a great time. There are lots of fun things to do there like:
Thing #1: Walk the Freedom Trail and see some historic […]

I’m not sure this banana bread recipe quite deserves the title of ‘best ever’, but it’s real good and nice and moist. I used some pretty black bananas and replaced the pecans with raisins due to Taste Tester’s nut sensitivity. It wouldn’t be nice to poison him for breakfast… gotta at least wait til lunch […]

Question: If a chubby hubby eats ‘Chubby Hubby’ does that count as cannibalism?
Taste Tester purchased some of Ben and Jerry’s Chubby Hubby on a recommendation from the friendly owner of a 24-hour bodega a couple doors down from us. Could it be? A chocolate peanut butter enabler within feet of my apartment? Eep!
Chubby Hubby consists […]

I love surprises - who doesn’t? Returning contributor, Sherry Smith-Noble wrote in with another awesome chocolate peanut butter recipe: Cupcakes with a Surprise Inside!
The first step is to whip up any chocolate cake batter you like (Sherry recommends this one). After filling the cupcake liners with just a little batter, you add a peanut […]

Taste Tester and I both celebrated birthdays last week, and you can be sure that there were plenty of desserts… and then more desserts, oh and then some MORE desserts, land some desserts after that. It was my kind of birthday!
SWEET AND SALTY
Early in the week, Taste Tester made these unbelievable Salted Fudge Brownies. They […]

Don’t be fooled by that picture - it looks small, but that cookie measures 4 inches across and 1 inch thick. That’s a whole lotta cookie!
Today is a very special day at The Chocolate Peanut Butter Gallery. I finally got to taste cookies from a bakery that I’ve been dreaming about for five years! FIVE! […]