Jul 28 2010
Recipe: Smokin’-good bacon burger
From "Substitute Yourself Skinny" by Susan Irby. Note: Original recipe has 870 calories per serving.
Jul 27 2010
Recipe Finder: Rainbow cookies
Maria Scheufele from Baltimore was looking for a recipe for making rainbow or ribbon cake. She described the cake as a "layer cake made with several colored layers that resemble a rainbow and is frosted with chocolate." She said that these cakes can be found in local bakeries and delicatessens.
Jul 27 2010
Bringing out fruit’s best
A couple of weeks ago, I was out on the road in Northern California, heading southeast from Sacramento on Highway 16 toward the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It's a beautiful drive, and on that blistering summer day I might have noticed the massive old oaks dotting the rolling hills or the occasional solitary weathered barn as the highway shimmered in the heat up ahead. But I was on a mission.
Jul 27 2010
Culinary SOS: Light, bright-flavored passion fruit mousse
Dear SOS: Cafe Brasil in West L.A. has an amazing passion fruit mousse. I just returned from Brazil and even there didn't taste one as good. I now live in New York and have really been missing my favorite dessert! Is there any way you can get their recipe?
Jul 26 2010
Snack packed: Road food should be satisfyingly salty, sweet or both
The first time that I tore open a package of Prince chocolate cookies and started eating them in the car, my boyfriend, Xavier, just about came unglued.