Need a Recipe for National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day? Here’s One!

PULL UP A CHAIR, this will take a while. Chocolate chip cookies to me are like coffee.  They are so simple that they've been made for hundreds of years, and yet, like coffee, the methods to make, the final product, and their essence and qualities are the subject of endless debate.   Do you like your … Continue reading Need a Recipe for National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day? Here’s One!

World’s Best Chocolate Cake Recipe

Of all the things I make for people, this recipe is probably the single most requested.   I must admit, that I got the recipe from a web site, ingeniously titled "The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe."  The recipe there is nearly perfect.  Yet I felt I had to make a few modifications from the original … Continue reading World’s Best Chocolate Cake Recipe