Nothing is as appreciated as home baking, especially in Cupid's month. As a baker, I've learned to divide people's tastes into three main categories. There are the chocolate addicts (totally unreasonable about chocolate but overall, an easy please), the cinnamon/sugar/buttery pastry fans (count me in), and the lemon and berry crowd. This issue of BB has something for all of them - even a low-fat vinaigrette for the heart healthy cooks wanting a low-cal, low fat and all flavor recipe such as Goldman No Fat, All Flavor House Vinaigrette. So many people to bake for, so many recipes, so little time! Start with these beautiful butter and jam cookie hearts and then chill out with another treat from the recipe offerings of the month. It's all in A Note from Marcy http://www.betterbaking.com/viewArticle.php?article_id=159
Madeleines, A Baking Romance
Many recipes, especially traditional or historical ones, have a story, if not a legacy behind them. Madeleines are one such recipe with longevity and an illustrious aside that references Marcel Proust who mentioned madeleines in his writing. Personally, I think madeleines have a romantic back story no one's ever told until now. It's just in time for Valentine's Day. Enoy the free recipe for Classic French Madeleines and the sweet Valentine's Day Baking tale that goes with it in Madeleines, a Story of Cake and Love.
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Scent of a Baker New!! Perfume Picks beautiful Idylle perfume from Guerlain. It's exceptional, feminine, mystical and light. An instant classic from who else? Guerlain.
Aromas from the kitchen, scent from the boudoir, flowers from the garden: fragrances everywhere! As a baker girl/chef, it is no surprise that I am seduced by scent. In addition to working with fragrance and flavors in the bakery and kitchen, I also dabble in custom perfumes and create specialty tea and coffee blend recipes. As a scent consultant and fragrance writer, I am delighted to share my ever evolving passion for scent in recipes and perfume reviews. It's just another way to nourish the senses.
BetterBaking.com Book Shelf Got Books, Music and Movies! Bakers read and review and here's the place to find out my book reviews on cookbooks, mind, body, spirit books, fiction, non-fiction - you name it. Sometimes there are some music reviews that also sneak in, not to mention some film and DVD rental musts. Forget the hype; bakers do not live by bread alone.
The 10th Anniversary Edition of A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking (with bonus Cooking chapter) andThe New Best of BetterBaking.com (with over 30 added recipes), both from www.WhitecapBooks.com are at Amazon.com or Chapters.ca as well as my treasured A Passion for Baking, with Oxmoor Books 2007.
Marcy Goldman will be appearing on Martha Stewart Sirius chatting about Irish Soda Bread (one of her favorite things), on March 17th, 2010. Stay tuned for the time. Always stay tuned here for my next Martha Stewart Whole Living and Morning Show appearance on either Sirius 112 or XM 157.
http://www.barkingirons.com/
Retro, edgy, and hot - that's Barking Irons famed tee-shirts. Just in time for Valentine's Day or a St. Pat's gift for the guy in your life (you know the one -the one who moons over "House's' great-tees - this is just the ticket). Check out the tee-shirts for gals. Reviews and more on this fabulous upstart company with historical New York roots soon.
Superb Tea from the Newest Tea Meister on the Internet Block, David's Tea www.DavidsTea.Com. Check out Forever Nuts or Read My Lips tea just in time for Valentine's Day.
From Bar Harbor, Maine, Gallery Leather is famous for the most gorgeous, hand-crafted leather journals, agendas, recipe books, and planners to be found. For a Valentine's Day or Mother's Day gift In butter soft leathers or crock, and a rainbow of colors. http://www.galleryleather.com/
Custom made, distressed leather journals and book covers of all sorts (even for your nifty Moleskine). These are rugged, historical looking, one-of-a-kind leather goods you'll hold onto forever.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, a treasure of a romantic comedy with heart and intelligence, by Anchor Entertainment A great review http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/9408/Falling+Up+(2009/Anchor+Bay+DVD)
This is a totally unexpected, realistic, contemporary love story that is perfect to add to your favorite chick flick ro-coms.
Our favorite, wholesome, low-fat snack folks from Snyder's. Visit http://www.snydersofhanover.com/Home/
Our Favorite Vanilla used in the BetterBaking.com Test Kitchen. http://www.nielsenmassey.com/ Quality vanillas without rival, single strength and double-strength, Madagascar, Tahitian, Mexican, Vanilla Powder, and pure extracts such as Chocolate, Lemon, Orange and Almond Nothing makes your baking shine like Nielsen Massey.
We just adore Yankee Candles for their quality (they infuse scent in any room even when they are not lit), fanciful scents and beautiful jars and containers - decor in themselves. Yankee Candles have just about cornered the market on concept candles. Senior VP of Brand Marketing and Innovations Mangaer, Rick Ruffolo refers to the Yankee Candle approach as ‘scentertaining" and "scentmosphere". And in this way, given this trendy market for ‘smell good’ things, Yankee Candles have been ahead of their time –providing gorgeous, quality candles in both traditional scents and innovative ones that keep things fresh.
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