Browsing Tag cupcakes

I am a fan of delicious cupcakes. I could not resist these, Holiday specialty cupcakes by Richard Ruskell, executive pastry chef at
Montage Beverly Hills. These cupcakes are beautifully gift wrapped in deliciousness. Richard Ruskell is celebrity chef and most recent winner of Food Network’s Last Cake Standing, started offering specialty cupcakes which use seasonal flavors and ingredients.

These special holiday cupcakes make a perfect gift that can be delivered to homes and residences located in the greater Los Angeles area. Be the life of the office party with these cupcakes! Fourteen cupcakes come packaged in a beautiful holiday-themed box, about $60 per box. What an impressively beautiful, dessert option for Californians to “wow” their guests this holiday.

On the occasion of my baby boy’s 6-month birthday, I decided to throw a little party. I have always wanted to make Red Velvet cupcakes because when I discovered Red Velvet cake (just a few years ago), I was fascinated. The “Neiman Marcus” cookies (as I have also discovered are a hoax and not from Neiman Marcus) are also a favorite of my husband’s and mine.

As much as I love living in an ordered live, I have come to realize my cooking style is a bit chaotic. As you will see, I often don’t always have all the exact ingredients necessary for almost all my meals, so I improvise. And, as usual, I tend to multi-task. In case you are too bored to watch all the way through, I’ll recommend NOT ironing white curtains in the middle of making Red Velvet anything!

Some ingenious casual cooks have a way of creating fabulous festive parties without breaking sweat on cooking. Lon Taylor is on of those ingenious cooks. His Super Bowl spread was delicious and delightful. Lon shares with us his recipe for down and dirty Louisiana style rice and beans. As easy as 1 2 3:
 
The Recipe:
He simply bought a box of Zatarain’s and combined it with a can of Eden’s Organic rice & beans mix. Then slice up and cook an Andouille sausage on the stove top for about 10 minutes. Once the sausage is done just add it to the rice & beans mix simmer on the stove. I Added pinch of paprika, with Tabasco sauce to taste and it’s good to go.

 

Lon laughs out loud when he say, “Wish I could give you a story that the recipe was handed down from my great uncle who grew peppers in Louisiana!”

In addition to Lon’s Louisiana’s Rice and Bean he also constructed a sandwich with a two types of cheese, ham and salami, chopped relish and olive chutney, and lite olive oil spread.

 

 

For dessert we had a selection of cupcakes from More Cupcakes.

Lon is truly the host with the most!

Thanks to @jackvinson tweet this morning and he introduced his twitter followers to Tammy Green’s book, “Chicago Cupcake Crawl” a book I will probably find very valuable and enlightening. I love cupcakes!

In April I was introduced to More Cupcakes – Chicago. A great name for a cupcake shop and an excellent tasting cupcake. What made More Cupcakes taste even better was how nice the owner is – they allow sampling – you don’t want to buy something to eat and find you don’t like the taste.

Because of Jack’s intro to Tammy Green’s book I thought won’t it be great to organize a cupcake crawl with Tammy! It would be so much fun.

Much success to you Tammy on your book!

More more  more —I just delighted in a visual display of the most beautiful cupcakes at More. Kimberly Deason let me try the Salted Caramel moresel which was delicious and savory. More has such lovely and some unusual combinations like almond and apricot, apple gorgonzola, bacon maple, fois gras, potato our cream, strawberry balsamic, sweet pea, and truffled white cheddar. I love the idea of the petite flights of Moresels – what a lovely gift this will make.

More is more than just delectable tasty cupcakes there’s an enthusiasm from the folks that work – pride in what they do and a willingness to share this with their customers. Sounds like a wonderful transition back the ma-pa days of the local markets in which the owners new their patrons and were involved in their family lives.  That’s the vibe I got from More and beside going back for More cupcakes I will probably go back for the hometown treatment.

More
312-951-0008
One East Delaware Place
Chicago, IL 60611

New Yorkers are depressed because Magnolia Bakery was shut down for lack of a sink. They should have bribed the inspector with cupcakes.

What about the rest of world? fake food from China? Now this is really scary…could we be heading done the path of synthetics?

Would you know if you were eating fake food?

tags: fake food