Aisle Twelve

Let me introduce you to your new favorite dessert.  Not only will this be your favorite because it tastes so delicious, but its so easy to make and you probably already have all, if not most, of the ingredients in your pantry.  Am I the only one who does this?  Before I recycle a magazine, I go through it and tear out the pages I think I'll want to keep.  This helps in getting tons of magazines out of the house, but then I end up with a binder of pages that I will go through and eventually throw away.  However, I found this gem of a recipe in that pile.  It is from an issue of Kraft Food and Family years ago.  The magazine uses this recipe as a perfect compliment to coffee, and oh please don't torture me, I'm sure it is absolutely divine with coffee.  I have been accompanying these bars with a good old glass of milk and it is a delight.  I'm sure a glass of red wine wouldn't be a bad partner either... These are best when they are warmed so that the chocolate is me

Winter is a good time for soups.  At least they say it is winter; today is a balmy 50 degrees.  Not that I'm complaining, I just have a nagging feeling that the late arrival of winter means snow until May.  Let's hope that is not the case.  This soup was literally, and I mean literally literally, on every menu in Scotland.  This recipe for potato leek soup tastes different than the soups we had there, but it is every bit as good, and perfect for a winter's day.  I've become somewhat of a vegetarian since I've had a bun in the oven, mainly because the smell of meat cooking really does me in.  (Don't worry, dare I say I feel that I'm starting to turn a corner.  Please God, please God, please God let me turn this nausea corner.)  Nausea aside, this is a great vegetarian recipe since it really sticks to your ribs, you won't miss the meat at all! This is based on a recipe from Ina Garten's Back to Basics cookbook.  I think what makes it different from

It's a new year again!  2012 promises to bring some of the biggest and most exciting changes for me and I can't wait to share them with you!  You may have noticed that I haven't posted a new recipe on here in quite some time.  I apologize.  There is a big reason and it is mainly that I haven't been cooking very many new things to share with you.  A lot of the things I am making are old stand bys that I quickly whip together because (a) I have no energy to stand by a stove for more than 5 minutes (b) the things I am eating are probably of no particular interest to you, unless eating an entire jar of banana peppers chased with a tall glass of Fresca interests you or (c) because the thought of a certain food sends me running for the nearest toilet.  Sorry to mention toilet in a food blog.  Yes, I do have a mild case of morning sickness.  For the most part though, I am still cooking, but what I'm cooking happens to be a very specific something that sounds good at tha