Remember that wonderfully delicious Cara Mella Bar I mentioned in my Holiday Gift Guide? Well, it can be yours! Enter Jer’s facebook photo contest for your chance to win a whole case of them! If all that chocolate-peanut-butter-goodness doesn’t bring you a little holiday joy, I don’t know what will. Here’s the scoop:
“With entertaining at […]

The holidays are here! Are you in full-on holiday baking crazy mode? Me too!
I opened up the latest issue of Everyday with Rachael Ray and to find a feature about kitchen tools that are necessary for holiday cooking. At first I was surprised that they included the cookie press. I had received one as a […]

I LOVE biscotti, but Taste Tester has never really bothered with it. Biscotti tends to have nuts, which he can’t eat, and he’s also not crazy about the dry texture. But I think after whipping up a batch of Peanut Butter & Co’s Peanut Butter Biscotti with the addition of Askinosie Bittersweet Chocolate Chunks and […]

I have a problem, and if you’re a blog reader / recipe lover (I assume you are if you’re reading this), then you may be able to relate. My problem is this: I bookmark way too many recipes. Way more than I’ll probably ever be able to make, but I love browsing recipe sites and […]

Have fun building up your sweets stash today! Remember to barter for chocolate peanut butter treats!
(Credit for this carving-a-Reeses idea goes to Taste Tester who saw it on a Reeses Halloween commercial. Unfortunately it was so irresistible that our dog snuck into my photo area and ate it shortly after the shoot!)

Sorry for the little hiatus - but I have a good excuse: Taste Tester and I got engaged!
We went on a midwestern road trip visiting Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri where we visited our friends at the Askinosie Chocolate factory.
Want proof? Here’s me in Iowa. (We don’t have corn like that in NJ):

Obviously, I […]

Okay people, it’s time: I simply have to profess my love for Nigella Lawson’s Nigella Express. It’s way overdue, but better late than never, right? So let me tell you, I LOVE this book. Taste Tester was kind enough to get it for me for no reason other than to fuel my crazy cookbook addiction. […]

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 […]