Monthly Archives: December 2010
Piattini – Wine Cafe
Miss Yunks always likes to try new restaurants. She picked Back Bay’s Piattini Wine Cafe, after reading several raving Yelp reviews, as the destination for dinner with A +B. Piattini features Italian small plates and has an extensive wine menu. Naturally, we started with a glass of wine. I chose the Shoofly Shiraz, described as [...]
Posted in Boston, Italian, Reviews 9 Comments
Holiday Eats
Miss Yunks had a very foodie holiday. She ate delicious treats and spent Christmas day with her family. I started the day with chocolate pancakes. I added some leftover chocolate ganache to my pancake batter and topped the finished pancakes with butter and maple syrup. I like to have a balanced breakfast of carbs, sugar, [...]
Posted in Chocolate, Dessert, Holiday, Recipes Tagged bon appetit, chocolate cookies, christmas, hot chocolate surprise cookies, salted caramel 5 Comments
These are a Few of our Favorite Things…
Here is a list of the things A-Tooch and Miss Yunks are looking forward to this Christmastime: A-Tooch Family, all together, in one place Time off and sleeping late Making these tasty treats again for guests Trying new recipes Kicking off the snowboarding season (I am determined to dismount the chair lift without falling this [...]
Posted in Foodie Ramblings 2 Comments
Foodie Rambling: How to eat a Box of Chocolate
Talking about A-Tooch’s box of chocolates she received from a co-worker A-Tooch: having my 1 chocolate piece a day from this box that’s sitting on my desk, turkish coffee! yum Miss Yunks: omg how can you have just 1? A-Tooch: haha b/c my tum hurts if I have too many chocolates like you feel with [...]
Chocolate Christmas Pretzels
Looks like A-Tooch and Miss Yunks both have peppermint and holiday baking on the brain this week! A-Tooch was in the mood to make some holiday treats for the office, but cookies… not so much. A former coworker once created these “chocolate huggles” as she called them and they were delish. Pardon in advance the [...]
Peppermint Meringues with Chocolate Ganache Filling
When Miss Yunks saw Kathy was planning a Boston blogger cookie swap she knew she needed to find a really interesting cookie to make. While flipping through a Martha Stewart magazine at her parents’ house, she found a recipe and photos for peppermint meringue cups filled with chocolate ganache. That’ll do! I left the magazine [...]
Posted in Blogger Event, Boston, Dessert, Holiday, Recipes Tagged chocolate ganache, cookie, Joy of Baking, martha stewart, meringue, Whole Foods 5 Comments
Food, Friends, & Fun
Miss Yunks loves playing hostess and cooking for others. Shes puts a lot of love into her kitchen creations and likes to share and spread that foodie love. I invited my two college friends A + B over for dinner. We planned to eat eggplant parm and cheese fries, the obvious combination. After I raved [...]
Posted in Cheese, Vegeterian Tagged appetizer, cheese sauce, eggplant parm, fries, gingerbread, goat cheese, Trader Joe's 11 Comments




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