Food and Wine Magazine recently published an article entitled, “5 Signs You’ve Picked a Bad Restaurant.” While a few of the signs make sense — for example, it’s never good to be ushered into a restaurant off the street — Sign #3 might as well be culinary blaspheme: chocolate lava cake. How can a hot-out-of-the-oven, decadent chocolate cake filled with oozing chocolate ganache (read: lava) be a bad thing? I understand that the dessert may [...]

Hot weather’s coming. I’m ready for it. I’m tired of the cool, rainy spring we’ve had. I’m planning ahead for all the fun things I’m going to do in the hot sunshine of the summer days that will soon be here! Antique shopping. Hammock testing. Barbecuing. Working on the Sailboat. Iced Tea Sipping. You can see, I’ve got a list going already! When the temperatures go higher and I’m looking for a cool dessert, I [...]

Hi everyone! I’m so excited today.  Not only is this my very first post as a Culinary.net contributing writer, but I made fudge.  Not any ordinary type of fudge. Cake Batter Fudge. Yes. The ooey, gooey, sweet, sinful taste of yellow cake batter in fudge form.  Chocolate fudge…. you’ve met your competition. Raise your hand if you’re guilty for licking that giant wooden spoon after mixing up some cake batter. C’mon. You know you do [...]

Mother’s Day is all about celebrating the woman who fixed you breakfast before school, hand-made your Halloween costumes, taught you how to braid your hair or tie your shoe laces, and talked you through your first major breakup, (or some variation of these roles). While it can be difficult to thank her for everything she’s done, a good place to start is with a lovely brunch the whole family can enjoy together on Mother’s Day. [...]

The Chiquita Banana Jingle. Chances are, you can sing, or at least hum, a few bars of the famous Chiquita Banana jingle. The song first hit the airwaves in 1944 when Miss Chiquita made her debut. It was written to help teach Americans how to ripen and use bananas, which were, at the time, an exotic tropical fruit. At its peak, the jingle was played 376 times a day on radio stations across the United [...]