The chief problem with a cold snap is needing to leave the house in search of chocolate should the ration be dwindling. We were stuck with unsweetened baking chocolate and little else this weekend. I…
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Today, I’m taking advantage of a perfectly ordinary Thursday to share with you a very extraordinary recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Why today? Because we’re at the tail end of January and we’ve all…
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five little things that made my week: 1. this bread. {because james is basically on a bread-making bender at this stage. pretty good for everyone involved.} 2. this book. {because i’ve only just begun…
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five little things that made my week: 1. these stamps. {for what are rapidly becoming new year postcards}. 2. these lemons. {for making their way through airport security}. 3. these chocolates. {for arriving to…
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This is not the cake that I thought I was going to write about. That cake had a different and more complicated recipe. James was going to make it because he’s patient and good…
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1. this bouquet. {because every time i came back to my apartment this week, it smelled heavenly}. 2. this light bulb. {because we really needed a new one, and we just happened to sit…
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chocolate bars 19th century mélange | 21st century reproduction liqueur tasting it’s not every day that you get invited to see the inner workings of a chocolate factory, just ask arthur slugworth. you might imagine my…
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here’s a confession. i like my chocolate the way i like my coffee: milky. in fact, the creamier it is, the better i like it. this tea-infused milk chocolate from the tea room fits…
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on last week’s impromptu trip to newport, i decided to poke my head into a shop along the aptly named bellevue avenue. what i found could not have been more delightful: an entire shop…