Attention home cooks – You don’t even have to turn on your oven to enter the Princeton Pi Day Pie contest! Just email your best dessert pie recipe to lillipies@yahoo.com to enter. The top entries will be prepared by local chefs for judging on March 13. Details on the website, of course.
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Pi[e] Day Rules! (or measures…)
Got Pie? As part of the 2011 Princeton Pi Day festivities, there is a pie-judging contest. That takes place at the Nassau Inn on March 13, and your’s truly will be judging along with several other local culinary “luminaries”! Home bakers should submit their family favorite pie recipe by March 1 to lillipies@yahoo.com. Selected pies will be … Continue reading
Save Our Whoopie Pie!
A culinary battle is forming over the humble whoopie pie. I have always associated this cake/filling sandwich with Lancaster County PA and the Amish. Now the state of Maine is horning in, and trying to claim the pie for their own, and may even name it their official state treat! The Wall Street Journal exposed this dastardly plot … Continue reading
Lucy’s got some ‘splaining to do!
Seen at Robinson’s Fine Candies in the Montgomery Shopping Center – this gorgeous vintage Barbie set of Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory! (No, it’s not for sale.) They’ve also got a sweet Lucy clock, and, in back of the counter, an old-fashioned conveyer belt, just like the one in the hilarious I Love Lucy episode, that you … Continue reading
Valentine’s Day and More
There are lots of special events, before, during, and after Valentine’s Day; here is some of what has arrived in my Inbox lately. On February 10, 11:00am-5:00pm, the Princeton Farmers Market with both farmers and crafters participating will be in the community room of the Princeton Public Library. Info at 609-356-0558. Taste of Crete, in Hillsborough, … Continue reading
Chocolate Cannele
Wegmans spells it cannele, Wikipedia spells it canelé. Either way, it was cute and good. This cylindrical pastry, made in a special mold, was avaialbe in plain (vanilla?) or chocolate at the Wegmans pastry counter the other day. It is cake-like with a custard filling, and at $1.50, a nice treat. You could even put … Continue reading
All gone!
This is what remains of a delicious granola bar I picked up at the Whole Earth Center recently. Not even a crumb! It’s made by Jen Carson, owner of Jen’s Cakes & Pastries; she is a member of the Cooperative Kitchen in Princeton, home to several bakers and Wooden Spoon Catering. Her little pies (Lillipies) … Continue reading
University Catering – Sweet!
Thank you to Princeton University Catering for sending me a holiday tin of their new New Premium Gourmet cookies: Cookie Royale featured Hawaiian macadamia nuts, fresh coconut and semisweet chocolate. Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk was a great mix of tart and sweet. Oatmeal Cinnaraisin Cravin’ was sweet and chewy. These all disappeared so quickly, our staff … Continue reading
Lobster & Cookies
This was a great Christmas Eve dinner, on an evening I was home finishing up preparations for Christmas Day. I made a lazy cook’s version of the Lobster with Browned Cream from the Fall/Holiday edition of Canal House Cooking. (That’s the one with the blue cover, snap one up while you can.) Instead of dealing … Continue reading
Oh Say Can You See’s?
Yes you can! You can just make out those magic words under the white wrapping at left: See’s Famous Old Time Candies. Lucky me, this box arrived at my doorstep complements of See’s public relations firm, but I still made the pilgrimage to their holiday store at Marketfair to stock up right after they opened last week – … Continue reading
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