Someone at work is having a baby shower, Sarah said. Will you make a dessert? Sure, I thought. I had just been watching this sexy video chronicling the construction of a Sachertorte — a classic Viennese chocolate-on-chocolate-on-apricot number that l desperately wanted to reproduce. So I restarted the video and showed it to Sarah. And […]
I think that I wanted it too much. That was the problem. Passover is coming, it’s my favorite holiday of the year, and what better way to celebrate here at Twice Cooked than with chocolate coconut macaroons. Parve, kosher for Passover, chocolate coconut macaroons. But alas. I suppose that it wasn’t to be. Here’s the […]
I hope that all of you, out there, are having a happy St. Patrick’s Day. I know I am. We’re starting the seeds for our summer garden this weekend, and I’ve been outside for most of the morning helping Sarah build a fence to contain some of our more … let’s say aggressive raspberry bushes. […]
I wanted to put in a quick note to wish you all (dear readers!) a very happy V-Day. Neither Sarah nor I are particular devotees of the holiday. Our respective mothers call us — unsentimental. But I will state, for the record, that I am preparing something special for the occasion. It involves whipped cream. […]
Happy Superbowl everybody! If anybody cares about my prediction for the big game, here it is: the Boston Bruins are going to beat the New York Knicks, 5-3 in double overtime. I kid, I kid. The truth of the matter is that I know nothing about football. I don’t know who the players are. And […]
It isn’t crazy that this morning — on the first real snowy morning of the new year, with three inches of snow on the ground, having just come in from shoveling the front steps — I churned two batches of ice cream. It’s not crazy at all. Not in the least. I mean it. The […]
I can’t say that I’m much of a C. S. Lewis fan. His writing for adults has never much grabbed me. And being neither a Christian, nor someone who read the books as a child, I have a limited appreciation for The Chronicles of Narnia. At best. But I do owe C. S. Lewis one […]
A full post, including a recipe for Christmas cookies that are not these, will be forthcoming in the next couple of days. For now, you’ll have to content yourself with this teaser: Enjoy!
Sarah and I have a grand weekend tradition of eating breakfast out. We’ve been doing it almost as long as we’ve been together. First, it was at the Original Mel’s in Berkeley, then the Runcible Spoon in Bloomington, and now … it’s wherever we can manage here in Philadelphia. We’re fans of restaurant dining, generally […]
What, with Thanksgiving coming up and all that, I’ve been making a lot of ice cream lately. First vanilla (because you can’t properly have pie without vanilla ice cream) and then maple with pan-roasted pecan pieces (because something about that combination screams I’m for Thanksgiving!). I expect that some few of you out there would […]