Subject: Dessert Recipes

• Tasteful words

  November 22, 2000

• Cake! (Or Reasons to Celebrate Catholic Holidays)

  No place is better at identifying and really playing up the hedonistic parts of the normally austere Catholic faith's high holidays than New Orleans. And today, Epiphany (when those wise men supposedly bestowed the baby Jesus with gold, frankincense and myrrh, lucky kid), is no exception. New Orleans-style Kings Cake is one of my personal favorite New Year's resolution ruining delicacies. It's basically a pastry-esque dough, rolled with a creamy filling, baked, frosted, and covered with colored

  January 6, 2009

• Reverse Engineering: Cremant's Chocolate Cognac

  This little creamy concoction has inspired a local following for Cremant and has any drink you could make behind the bar beat. Why? It starts as rich hot chocolate and doesn't just rely on chocolate liqueur. At least, I think. I have no idea how Cremant makes their version, and while this one tastes pretty damn close, theirs leans a bit more towards a milk chocolate flavor. You can use whatever chocolate you like.You don't need much of this drink; so consider serving it in shot glasses.1/3 cup C

  January 9, 2009

• Make Your Own Nog!

  It’s not that difficult. It’s not that spendy. And it’s really f#$%*&* delicious.

  December 10, 2008

• Reduce, Reuse, Drizzle

  Save that spoiled bottle of red by making vin cotto.

  May 21, 2008

• The Sea Navy’s Holiday Sweet Potatoes

  February 20, 2008

• Josh Ottum's Oslo Kringle

  November 21, 2007

• After Homemade Limoncello, You'll Accept No Other

  It's like eating lemon meringue pie at a lazy Sunday picnic.

  May 2, 2007

• Food News for May 31-June 7

  May 31, 2006

• Cooks' Books for Couples

  Staying in for Valentine's Day? Our arts writers found six books that'll help you pull it off—in the kitchen, that is.

  February 8, 2006

• Well Read, Well Fed

  Our suggestions for books for cooks that aren't necessarily cookbooks.

  December 14, 2005

• Chef's Notes

  Idiosyncratic new cookbooks arrive from some of Seattle's finest kitchens.

  November 2, 2005

• Lovin' in the Oven

  December 15, 2004

• Food Files

  August 4, 2004

• Cookbooks 2003

  December 10, 2003

• Food Events, etc.

  May 21, 2003

• Ciao Bella Ristorante Is Back!

  April 23, 2003

• Food Files

  March 5, 2003

• Mamma Lightners Simple Noodle Kugel

  September 11, 2002

• Bottoms Up, Santy Claus

  December 19, 2001

• The secrets of pie

  December 12, 2001

• How to Gift 'n' Go

  November 29, 2000

• How to Get Invited Back

  November 29, 2000

• Can't catch me

  December 15, 1999

• Fish Recipes

  December 1, 1999

• Cupcake Royale Goes Local (and Gets Bigger)

  When Jody Hall opened the original Cupcake Royale/Vérité Cafe in Madrona in December 2003, she says it was the first cupcake bakery to open outside New York. Has it really only been five and a half years? An entire generation of toddlers are being raised by parents who had cupcake wedding tiers. Cupcake cookbooks and tattoos now abound. In the past few months alone, Seattle has seen Trophy Cupcakes expand to a second location, the Yellow Leaf Cupcake Co. arrive in Belltown, and in t

  July 7, 2009

• This Week's Recipe: Dana Cree's Chocolate Chip Licorice Ice Cream

  ​Before becoming pastry chef at Poppy, Dana Cree worked for three years at Lampreia (on the savory side), then staged at The Fat Duck in England and WD-50 in New York City, both internationally famous for their culinary experimentation. After returning to Seattle, Cree was pastry chef at Eva and the now defunct Veil. At Poppy, Cree crafts memorable, mostly seasonal, desserts like peach-shiso sorbet and black- and blueberry shortcake with cinnamon-basil ice cream. Cree's desserts are much

  September 14, 2009

• This Week's Recipe: Amy Pennington's Apple-Quince Butter

  ​Amy Pennington is the wise-cracking, one-woman show behind GoGo Green Garden, the edible gardening business that's got her driving all over town in a Volkswagen whose trunk is overflowing with tarps, seeds, and shovels. Pennington, who grew up on Long Island with a front yard full of goats and a back yard full of vegetables, now builds, plants, and tends edible gardens for her clients in their Seattle backyards, with a special focus on regional and native foods. (Pennington's client list

  October 26, 2009