Dessert-o-licious

This week is restaurant week in New York. Every year I look forward to this 2 week period, although now it seems like it goes on for more like 2 months, as a chance to try out some of New York’s finest. Unfortunately, this year every restaurant I was excited for seemed to already be [...]

This weekend I had a chance to go the famous Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Gallerie in New York. The cafe is known to be one of the best Austrian Cafes in the city and it didn’t disappoint! We got to enjoy 1 an Apfelstrudel, or Apple strudel and a Wiener Mélange (Espresso with steamed [...]

Just made these great cookies from Giada on Food Network. The full recipe can be found here. The cookies are made from butter, sugar, an egg, vanilla and almond extract, cinnamon, dried cherries and toasted almonds. I followed the recipe exactly, but decided to skip the icing since the cookies seemed sweet enough to me [...]