—A Recipe for the Ultimate Ultratruffle featuring Chocolate Macaroon (almond-coconut) nut butter, Amarena Italian cherries, and dark chocolate. –For my dad I love the combination of chocolate and cherry. This fondness may stem (no pun intended!) back to my childhood and my dad. His favorite candies were chocolate covered cherries, his favorite sundae was black…
—For my Uncle Dan Introduction Every year around the holidays, I make almond chocolate chip biscotti cookies: LOTS of them. Everyone seems to want a batch: I even start getting texts from the neighbors in early November asking if it’s almost biscotti time. My Uncle Dan is no exception to this and I always try…
I have been reminiscing about Boston lately. My husband and I lived in Brookline, MA for about 8 years before our daughters were born. I love the city and one of my favorite haunts is the North End. On my days off, I would meander the several miles between our condo and the North End,…