Dessert-o-licious

Back in December I went to the Grapefruit Gala at the French Culinary Institute and got to meet Jansen Chan who was the chef for the event. Immediately, I fell in love. His warm personality and his delicious food got me straight away. Ever since then, I’ve been meaning to go to the his midtown [...]

Pastry school is now in full swing and I’ve got 2 weeks under my belt! In lesson 3 we continued doing lots of math problems and eventually got to make our first recipe using a pot, hard caramel. The caramel was made by mixing some sugar in a pot with a little bit of lemon [...]

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the New Taste of the Upper West Side – Divine Desserts event in NYC. The event was fantastic! It was set in a tent near the Museum of Natural History and had representation from many of the Upper West Side’s greatest restaurants.  The photo above was [...]

This photo just screams summer dessert, doesn’t it? It looks so refreshing! Originally posted on Flickr by bananagranola.

This past weekend I got a chance to try a recipe I’ve been eye-ing for a while. It’s called Breakfast pizza, but honestly, it could be called Dessert Pizza as well. It was delicious! I modified one of Giada De Laurentiis recipes that I saw on Food Network a while back. The pizza is made [...]

I was recently send some Pom Wonderful from Kristen, the Pom Blogger! I couldn’t have been more excited since I’ve always loved Pom and thought about trying it out in a couple of recipes. Then she sweetened the deal even more when sending me some Pom Iced Coffees! I’ve never tried them before, but she [...]

I discovered a new delicious fruit yesterday called a Kiwiberry! It’s a small fruit, about the size of a grape, grown in New Zealand, that has a skin which resembles the look of a watermelon, but when bitten into it looks like a kiwi, and it tastes almost exactly like a kiwi, without the annoyance of the furry [...]