Chocolate & Apricot Challah...
Posted by Ari in Breads Made With Yeast on 11 26th, 2006 | 52 Comments
“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight…”
When I was a child I spent my afternoons playing in my grandmother’s garden. It was a magical wonderland covered in green grass and surrounded...
Chocolate Pull-Apart Kuchen...
“As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to eat chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.”
Chocolate, as many a person will say,...
Homemade Coconut Ice Cream...
Posted by Ari in Desserts on 11 19th, 2006 | 37 Comments
“Me and ice cream. Best friends forever.”
For as long as I can remember I’ve loved ice cream. Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry… or when I was feeling indecisive, neapolitan! When I was a kid my parents used to take my brother and I to The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. Going...
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
