Soft Pretzel baking class

Baking the Bread – The Philly Soft Pretzel

When I lived with my parents, I didn’t need an alarm clock on Saturdays, I would smell the freshly baked Philly soft pretzels that my dad would bring home, steaming hot from the pretzel bakery.  Years before I knew of calories counters, ingredient labels and generally all the stuff you […]

FriFotos – If you can’t stand the heat….go get a tasty treat!

The famous quote “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” immediately came to mind with this week’s FriFotos theme of “Heat”.  I’m taking a bit of liberty with the quote’s meaning to have some fun sharing my love of desserts around the world. With three trips […]

My Philly favorites: Cheesesteaks and the Cheesesteak Springroll

Growing up in Philadelphia, the cheesesteak is as local a food staple as are the soft pretzel, tastykakes and hoagies (back before we counted calories).  I would accompany my mom first to the butcher shop to buy the sliced rib-eye meat and then to the local deli to pick up […]

Parc Philadelphia macarons

My Philly favorites: 5 Restaurants in Rittenhouse Square

Philadelphia – You may know us for the history,  the Rocky steps (hey, there is an awesome Art Museum at the top of the steps so keep running to explore it!) or the cheesesteak (Jim’s on South Street please). In the past decade, our restaurant scene has exploded with so […]

My Philadelphia favorites: Main Line restaurants and shops

The Merion Golf Club hosted the US Open last year bringing with it the celebrities of the golf world as well as thousands of fans and media to the small town of Ardmore, Pennsylvania (a suburb outside of Philadelphia).  Ardmore is one of many towns collectively referred to as “The Main Line“.  The […]