One of the most fun food memories I have from being a kid is eating a Vermonster at Ben and Jerry’s to celebrate my friend’s birthday.  A b...

Tags: brownies, desserts, group, mousse

Don’t get me wrong, meringue cookies can be very good, especially if you make them yourself, but some commercial ones are simultaneously cloying and tasteless.  Long associated with Passover because they do not include flour, meringue can be a versatile component of a dessert, serving as a base as in a Pavlova, as a topping as in lemon meringue pie, or, my favorite, as an edible dessert bowl.  This twist—making the meringue into a bowl—is not only a smart way to present a substantial dessert that is kosher for Passover, but a show-stopping one as well. I love chocolate as an ending to any meal, and the ...

Tags: desserts, ice cream, meringues, Passover, Seder

On Monday date I was a substitute player for a friend’s Bunco game night. The group, all from the same neighborhood, has been getting together for a while, but they recently instituted a new rule: The host can only serve food out of a box.   If you’ve ever been involv...

Tags: weeknight gatherings, Bunco, desserts

The petits fours I brought to French class last night were delicious. After eating thee of these bite-size layer cakes with butter crème filling and frosting, I looked at the nutrition facts only to discover that each one had 130 calories and 7 grams of fat. C'est la vie! ...

Tags: desserts, French class

One fall many years ago, I was given lots of pumpkins as a gift. At the time I was living in a big old house in St. Paul with six friends. For weeks we used them as decorations on our dining room table, in our family room and well, all over the house. The night before Halloween we carved some of the pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns. There were still a dozen or left and I decided to cook each one. After a week of eating pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin baked Alask...

Tags: desserts, halloween, holiday, pumpkin