The Fuzzy Chef & Friends

Entries tagged as chocolate

Chalk & Chocolate In Berkeley

Sunday, June 7. 2009

Last week was Berkeley's annual Chalk and Chocolate festival, which is held in Gourmet Gulch (Shattuck Ave. from University to Solano, where Chez Panisse is). The idea of the festival is to support both chalk sidewalk art and chocolate at local merchants.

Continue reading "Chalk & Chocolate In Berkeley"

Posted by The Fuzzy Chef in Events at 15:47 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: berkeley, california, chocolate, events

Home Tasting Party Ideas

Saturday, February 28. 2009

Recently Lynn, on the Bulletin Board, raised the topic of doing home food tastings. I've done quite a number of these, and they are a lot of fun -- great "foodie" activities for a medium-sized group. If you stick to tastings of purchased, semi-perishable foods, then you have an activity for a weeknight party as well; you do your shopping the weekend before.

The classic tastings are wine, cheese and chocolate, because they offer quite range of variety and almost everyone likes them. They even go together; I've done a number of wine-and-chocolate tastings myself. Even for the "big three" though, you have to decide what kind of tasting you're going to do.

Continue reading "Home Tasting Party Ideas"

Posted by The Fuzzy Chef in Cooking Experiences at 12:02 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: cheese, chocolate, cooking experiences, party, tastings, wine

Christmas Eve Dinner 2008

Sunday, December 28. 2008

Christmas Eve was very different from Thanksgiving as far as cooking was concerned this year. Thanksgiving dinner I had planned out 2 weeks in advance. Christmas, I was still thinking about things on Monday. So it didn't throw me much when dinner had to be revised and revised. Also, we had a surprisingly "white Christmas" for Oregon; it snowed nonstop for several days, which is a rarity for Medford. So what did all of this snow make me think of? Why, sunny Brazil and Spain, of course!

First, I was pleasantly surprised to find Brazillian ingredients at Food4Less in Medford, OR. So I was going to do a Brazillian feast. However, then we invited over two new guests, who apparently were not used to "exotic" foods and both Pat and I thought Bahian cuisine might be going a little far. So we revised it to Spanish food: salt-crusted steelhead trout, asparagus, and tortilla. Except ... I'd forgotten about the Oregon-CA-Washington fishing ban this year. So no wild whole steelhead. So, instead ...

Continue reading "Christmas Eve Dinner 2008"

Posted by The Fuzzy Chef in Cooking Experiences at 22:45 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: asparagus, chocolate, cooking experiences, holiday, medford, oregon, paella, rice, seafood, sourdough, spanish food

Gourmet Salzburg

Monday, November 17. 2008

The Salzburg day begins with a filling breakfast of coffee, water, rolls, cheese, ham, speck, fruit, tomatoes, butter, jam and a soft-boiled egg. Of these, the bread is really the best part; nobody matches German-speakers for the quality and variety of their breads, especially whole-grain breads. I generally prefer an Italian breakfast (panino and espresso) but a good Austrian breakfast is a close second.

Continue reading "Gourmet Salzburg"

Posted by The Fuzzy Chef in Food Tourism at 21:37 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: alps, austria, chocolate, coffee, food tourism, market, salzburg

Gourmet Portland

Saturday, November 1. 2008

Portland, Oregon is a great food city. Many residents of San Francisco and Seattle act superior to Portland, but Stumptown has quite a few things going for it, including its own brand of West Coast cuisine and very pleasantly low prices.

Continue reading "Gourmet Portland"

Posted by The Fuzzy Chef in Food Tourism at 18:11 | Comments (2) | Trackback (1)

Defined tags for this entry: beer, chocolate, coffee, cupcake, food tourism, market, oregon, portland

(Page 1 of 2, totaling 6 entries) » next page

Competition entry by David Cummins powered by Serendipity v1.0