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Best ice cream of 2010.

Donna L. Barstow — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:02:50 +0000

I’m on deadline, so that’s why this review is older (written in 2008), but it’s still true!! I warn you, this is very pricey, at an outrageous $4.99 a pint! (on sale at Gelson’s which is the only store that has it that I know of.) Normal people shouldn’t have to pay this much. But [...]

Eat, pray, sit.

Donna L. Barstow — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:52:30 +0000

Yes, we have free choice, but there are consequences. Eating the good things in life is a blessing, but one also wants to fit in nice clothes! I’ve only read a few food blogs. (Same with cartoons: I don’t like to read other peoples’ cartoons about a topic until I know what I’m going to [...]

Chocolates from Seattle, that city

Donna L. Barstow — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:26:51 +0000

In a more affluent year than 2009 my brother and sister in law gave me chocolates from fran’s, in Seattle. (They live in Seattle, too.) I had heard of fran’s years ago (but what’s with the lowercase name? In elegant wedding-announcement type script, yet?) There were only 6 chocolates in the box. I ate them [...]

How to make guilty honey toast.

Donna L. Barstow — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:51:42 +0000

I have a bad carbon footprint for making toast. On the other hand, I switched from white bread to grainy or dark bread years ago, so that part is good. For me, that is. (I like bagels and English muffins and crumpets to be grainy, too!) I like bread hot and cooked, but I don’t [...]

Baking chocolate – it’s big, baby.

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:55:08 +0000

It comes in hunks. Slabs. It smells up the whole bag you carry it in, and you want to keep sniffing it. Baking chocolate is when quality really counts. But unless you bake two similar items, at the same time, using different chocolates – and I’m not a scientist – it’s a little hard to [...]

Combine chocolate and caramel…

Donna L. Barstow — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:14:44 +0000

and you’ve got my full attention. At the California Restaurant Association Show here recently, I picked up a Ghirardelli Milk and Caramel bar. It has a very glammed up but attractive photo on the gold box. Nicely designed. The milk chocolate is a little sweeter than usual, but works well with the tangier taste of [...]

Chocolate pretzels or chocolate chunk cookies? Neither.

Donna L. Barstow — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:57:01 +0000

Absolute no for Trader Joe‘s Chocolate Chunk Cookies. The cookies are dry and the chocolate is not satisfying and tastes cheap. I’m Yankee thrifty, but I’m tempted to throw the rest of them out! Ingredients look fine (ie, no corn syrup, which I won’t eat anymore), and there’s a bit of honey, which will usually [...]

Dark is what’s for dinner.

Donna L. Barstow — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:46:38 +0000

I’ve done cartoons on chocolate from the very beginning of my cartoon career, even before chocolate became acceptable, healthy, and girly, instead of some shameful vice I had to hide. (Or was that just my family? ) So I had a nice stash of cartoons on chocolate to show the editor of my proposed book [...]

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