From Scratch

When this landed in my inbox last week from Nestle, I knew I had to make it for Valentine’s Day, but my dilemma was how to make it in advance, to share here, and show the layers without cutting into it. The solution was to make it in a springform pan instead of a square […]

Tomorrow’s New York Times, in a story online tonight, says Hillary Clinton’s campaign is “starting to come to terms” with her need to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out. The paper quotes a superdelegate who has endorsed Clinton and who has requested anonymity.
Campaign advisers, also speaking privately, confirmed that.
Those key primaries are […]

I love trying new products, even though I know some will disappoint me. It’s a bit like dating when you’re young and willing to wait for a new guy who promises to call to actually do so. Sometimes he calls in two or three days, other times you’re sitting by the phone a week later, checking to make […]

Chocolate truffles are always a perfect treat, and they’re especially appropriate for celebratory days, whether it’s a birthday, a holiday or Valentine’s Day. There are two ways to make them: the easy way and the time-consuming way. If you think I’m going for the latter, then you’re probably a first-time reader here.
This truffle is a […]

Barack Obama swept all four of  yesterday’s primaries in three states and the Virgin Islands, giving him a 6-delegate lead over Hillary Clinton. In both Nebraska and Washington state, his share of the vote was more than double hers. (see below for update)
As the leaderboard shows, Obama has 861 delegates to Clinton’s 855. To win […]

The latest casualty in the presidential races is Repubican Mitt Romney, who had the dubious distinction last May of winning this blog’s first Flip-Flop Award. He could have won many more; I came to think of him as The Weathervane for the way he would spin, depending on which way the wind was blowing.
The end of […]

Say what you will about us Americans, but we never miss a chance to commercialize a holiday, even in weird ways. And this is definitely weird. Even for us.
The Piggly Wiggly supermarket chain, with stores in the South and parts of the Midwest, thinks a hunk of beef is a great gift for Valentine’s Day, […]

Meatless meals are always welcome on my table, and because I observe Lent I have several mandatory meatless days ahead of me between now and Easter. A new recipe as quick and delicious as this one definitely makes life easier. It’s the kind of dish that you can make once and never have to look at […]

Please take this widget with you; you can even email it. After Super Tuesday we know two things: John McCain is the undisputed frontrunner for the GOP, in a comeback that was unthinkable last summer when everyone, including me, wrote him off. And we know the Democrats have a true contest, the likes of which […]

At long last, it’s Super Tuesday. You don’t have to be in a Super Tuesday state — or even in the US — to cast a vote. You can do it right here, just for fun. Only once, please!

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In my corner of the world, fresh fruit in the dead of winter often comes from Chile. Many supermarkets have Chilean promotions or “summer in January” sales, as if a bounty of fruit might trick me into forgetting I’m wearing so many layers that I’m as bulky as a teddy bear. I’m rightly skeptical about a […]

Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in a statistical dead heat, heading into the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.
National polling for The Washington Post and ABC News shows 47% of Democrats likely to vote on Tuesday back Clinton, while 43% favor Obama. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus four […]

It was a crackerjack week for political cartoons, but one item in the news could affect all of us who use the internets, no matter where we might live: Microsoft’s unsolicited $44 billion bid for Yahoo. Daryl Cagle of Cagle Cartoons and MSNBC.com took a wry look at that.

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For decades foodies turned their noses up at the slow cooker, one of the most popular countertop appliances in America. Some of the disdain was justified, when so many recipes were nothing more than a hunk of protein topped by a couple cans of cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup — or both. […]

They said this day would never come.
Illinois Senator Barack Obama, beginnng his victory speech after the Democrats’ Iowa Caucuses January 3.
See it and hear it: Obama Wins Iowa