French Onion Soup with a Chocolate Twist
Fans of the TV show "Portlandia" might recall more than a few references to chocolate in its various forms throughout the series. Though not a [...]
Vegan Flourless Chocolate Cake
Happy New Year Cocoa Beantown fans! Over the holidays, I'm sure many folks indulged in more than a bit of chocolate. Whether it was left [...]
Mother’s Day Chocolate Buying Guide
Mother's Day is FAST approaching (yes, it's Sunday already) so let's hope you've figured out what you're going to get the woman. Just in case [...]
Recipe: Chocolate Lava Cakes
One of the most oft-referenced "favorite" chocolate desserts of my chocolate tour guests is the infamous chocolate lava cake. Sometimes referred to as "molten chocolate [...]
Recipe: Chocolate Peanut Butter Slices
This is a great recipe I've made a few times for friends that involves those two blissful ingredients we discussed in yesterday's post--chocolate and [...]
Recipe: Black-Bottom Banana Bars
Everyone who buys bananas often finds themselves with the rather common scenario of having a bunch of overripe (read: brown and mushy) bananas on their [...]
Tips for Making Healthier Milkshakes
My milkshake brings all the chocoholics to the yard. The summer before my sophomore year of college, I went through a very difficult [...]
Dirty Girl Scouts on St. Patty’s Day
Back in my increasingly longer ago college years, I actually was very tentative with my first forays into consuming alcohol. Going to college on a [...]
Hot Chocolate Kind of Day
Isn't it delightful when one of those march snowstorms charges through, leaving a ton more snow than the forecasters initially warned you about? Ahh, yes, [...]
Potato Chips + Chocolate = Always the Right Answer
At a birthday dinner not too long ago, I amazed my friends by combining two, pretty much universally lauded, food indulgences; chocolate, and potato chips. [...]
How to Win the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Category
Unless you live in an underground bunker in preparation of the polar ice cap melting apocalypse, you probably are aware that the Oscars were last [...]
Peanut Butter Pie With Pretzel Crust
A couple years ago, I went out for a dinner with my dear friend Erica (who has a fantastic travel blog called As Her World [...]