recipes: success!
chocolate cake becomes chocolate raspberry bread pudding
People who know me personally know that the chocolate cake pictured on the back of The Love Diet is not only my favorite recipe in the book, it is one of my absolute favorite foods. That layer cake a transformative food for me (is that weird?) For that few minutes I am eating the... »
the aphrodisiac christmas cookie
I know its been months since I promised to offer variations on the books’ recipes with nothing but silence on my part (frankly, I think I have a fantastic excuse for my silence). Although I’m still reeling from the events in my life, I have been baking. The Love Diet’s Chocolate Mint Seduction Cookies... »
the great ingredient substitution
What do you do when you promise your guests The Love Diet tangerine-lemongrass mimosas and tangerines are out of season? You improvise like crazy! …And sometimes you come up with something even better than the original. Although I tend to shop and cook seasonally, when you’re promoting a cookbook, you’re at the mercy of... »
The Love Diet is Here, Let’s Party
In light of recent events, it was a little tough to put on my dancing shoes and celebrate my new arrival, but a new book must be feted. (Did I mention that in the middle of everything, I broke my foot? Just a little bone luckily, but a break nonetheless.) It is hard for... »
New Tricks
One of my latest hairbrained ideas was to take Juan-Carlos’ blue cheese walnut snack recipe and turn it into a brittle. Good-natured JC went along yet again but pulled out a surprise of his own. I’d always made brittle with water and sugar as the base of the recipe but as I pulled ingredients... »
stove top sous vide – a water wing on the high seas of haute cuisine
JC and I both had a heavy week of recipe testing. Between us, I believe we tried 15 recipes and finalized about 8 of those. Great progress! But we are at the crunch time. (And I am feeling the pressure!) Sometimes my ideas for recipes are weird. This week, one of my more strange thoughts... »
testing together day 2
Am still behind on posting but trying to develop the habit. In the meantime, I’m going to catch you up from memory on our pursuits of the best recipes for our book of love. JC and I planned our second day of recipe testing to coincide with our publisher, Life of Reiley’s annual holiday... »
cooking together: day 1
I should start by saying that JC and I both love the idea of the blog. We just don’t seem to have the discipline to sit down at regular intervals to fill you in on the development of our project. (We’ve been very busy in the kitchen!) I’m going to try to catch you... »
let the recipe testing begin
This week I started testing recipes for the Love Diet book. We’re going to break up the recipes by their “love potency” – there are the recipes for maintaining a healthy libido, the long romantic weekend decadences, the foods to snare yourself a lover, recipes for a slim and sexy you and, of course,... »