It’s Peanut Butter Nutella time! Peanut Butter Nutella time!
All winter long I have been crazy for hot chocolate. Thankfully we have a helpful cookbook on our shelf called- well… Hot Chocolate. It includes many delicious chocolate drink recipes that will surely keep me happy for the rest of these evil winter months. It’s even got […]

When I think of homemade baked goods, I generally dream of fuuudgy brownies and sofffft cookies. Soft and chewy treats are definitely my preference, however there are a few exceptions - one of which is the crispy, crunchy florentine.
Florentines are thin lace cookies traditionally made with chopped almonds. Unfortunately Taste Tester can’t eat nuts, so […]

Wow, it feels great to post two days in a row… :) Feels like it’s been a while since I’ve managed that!
Make no mistake, the book Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Life by Luann Dunnuck isn’t a cookbook, or at least not primarily.
The book’s summary states, “Invigorating and inspiring, Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Life reminds […]

This cookbook is one of many that I’ve flipped through a bunch of times and stalked on the shelves in various book shops. Here’s a sampling of the dialogue that goes on in my head:
“Sigh. There it is again.”
*flips through*
“Ooooh!… Chocolate Caramel-Pecan Souffle!
“No. My shelf is way too full. I can’t even jam […]

It’s a pretty obvious fact that our country is a bit unstable at the moment. But letting the sinking economy affect your holiday cheer isn’t going to do any good.
Instead, we should all be thankful that even though there are so many awful things going on in the world, many of us including myself […]

So after my last sadly tragic attempt at making chocolate peanut butter croissants, you’d think I’d veer away from trying them again for a while. But I had a sheet of frozen puff pastry leftover from last time and tired of it mocking me every time I opened the freezer, I decided to give it […]

Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World by Lisa “Hungry Girl” Lillien has some pretty fantastic looking recipes in it. With a small apartment and a full bookshelf, I often toil about purchasing new cookbooks. Why clutter up my apartment when there’s a plethora of new recipes constantly being […]

Before I get on with this post, I want to say for the record that I have loved every Martha Stewart recipe I have tried up to this point. I have a subscription to Everyday Food, which I just recently raved about and I also own her Baking Handbook and Cookie Book. A lot of […]

Yesterday I went on Scott’s Pizza Tour, a tour that takes you all around various pizzerias of NYC (on a yellow school bus - awesome!) and tells you everything there is to know about NYC pizza. We learned a lot, ate a lot, laughed a lot- it was just an awesome experience.
But, this is not […]

I realize writing a review of a book before you have finished it is not the norm, but I just had to share this quote from Steve Almond’s Candyfreak with you:
“Every now and again, I’ll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate or other sweets, and while we live in a country where […]