Overnight Breakfast & Brunch Casseroles: Cinnamon Buns & Blueberry Muffins

February 21st is National Sticky Bun Day. Sticky buns and cinnamon rolls were the biggest treat of our childhood breakfasts: Better than waffles or pancakes. The Horn & Hardart Automat, Americas’s first fast food chain, had such popular items that customers clamored to take them home. They set up a retail arm to package and…
Continue reading “Overnight Breakfast & Brunch Casseroles: Cinnamon Buns & Blueberry Muffins”

TIP OF THE DAY: Make Easter Eggs Filled With Cake!

Steph of The Cupcake Project created a recipe called How to Make Cupcakes in Egg Shells. But, if you decorate the eggs before serving, you have Easter Egg Surprise: an egg with cake inside. It’s fun and memorable: Most people won’t have seen anything like it. Here’s the recipe. We took it one step further,…
Continue reading “TIP OF THE DAY: Make Easter Eggs Filled With Cake!”

FOOD FUN: Passover Matzoh

[1] Chopped chicken liver on matzoh: a classic. Here’s the recipe from Williams-Sonoma. [2] A deconstructed version from Chef Alex Guarnashelli at Butter restaurant. [3] Mr. Alpenglow created his recipe, inspired by Guarnashelli’s. Here’s the recipe.   When is a piece of matzoh with chopped chicken liver (photo #1) greater than the sum of its…
Continue reading “FOOD FUN: Passover Matzoh”

An Old Fashioned Sponge (Honeycomb) Candy Recipe, For Passover & Anytime

How about an old-fashioned sponge candy recipe? It has that “honeycomb crunch” and can be made for Passover. A recipe is below, thanks to our colleague Hannah Kaminsky of Bittersweet Blog. She wondered about the old-fashioned confection variously known as: Angel food candy (Wisconsin) Cinder toffee (Canada and U.K.) Dalgona (South Korea) Fairy food candy…
Continue reading “An Old Fashioned Sponge (Honeycomb) Candy Recipe, For Passover & Anytime”

TIP OF THE DAY: Gourmet Burritos & Burrito History

The first Thursday of April National Burrito Day. You don’t have to twist most arms to enjoy one. THE NIBBLE is having a lunch of gourmet burritos. We share the ingredients below, but first, a bit of…     BURRITO HISTORY A step back in history: In 1519 the Spanish conquistadors arrived in what today…
Continue reading “TIP OF THE DAY: Gourmet Burritos & Burrito History”