This week, two of our close friends got married. It was a beautiful ceremony, the reception was so much fun, and it was special to see two people we love making such an important promise to each other. On Wednesday night I brought some treats over for the bride, Megan. I made a handful of [...]
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Chocolate Chess Pie
Chocolate Chess Pie was my grandmother Bobbie’s signature fall and winter pie. It made appearances on every holiday table and was the one pie that made it onto everyone’s dessert plate, along with a dollop of fresh whipped cream. Chess pie is a very southern concoction, the basic chess is sugar, eggs, and butter, with [...]
Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
While I usually boycott Valentine’s Day on principle (it’s a materialistic holiday that makes my gender look like a bunch of Vermont Teddy Bear hungry fools), I will go so far as buying Dan a stupid card (this year’s featured a matchbook and the phrase “burning love”) and making a nice dinner. If nothing else, [...]
Chocolate Mousse
This year, because of an impending wedding, my father’s new dive charter, and the fact that all of my siblings are either in school, employed by AmeriCorps, or in the Army, we are not exchanging Christmas gifts. Which is great, I was only asked to bring home pie, which is why this week I made [...]
