Anyone can make Tiramisu

Origin of TIRAMISU

Italian tiramisù, from tirami su!, literally, pull me up!

Are there certain foods that intimidate you?  I know for me I have several.  My current fear is Indian food, which I'm trying to muster up enough courage to get over.  I have learned from the past those I'm most intimidated to try cooking are ones I end up falling in love with.  For the longest time I was completely at loss for how to even begin cooking Greek food.  Then I experimented with a few recipes and fell in love.  Another past fear was Tiramisu.  I loved it in recipes but had no clue how to start making it.  Then I began looking online and found quite a few simple recipes.  I took what I liked from all of them and put together an amazing recipe that I use over and over again.  This is a great one to make in advance and take to a friends home.  It does need to sit at least 4 hours to overnight so it is a great dish to make for parties the day before.  I can't wait to share it with you and hope you love it as much as I do!!!

Chocolate Popcorn

drizzled choc. popcorn

"What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate." - Katherine Hepburn

Well I had planned to attempt to make the caramel popcorn the other night and got home from the grocery store only to realize that I had forgotten corn syrup.  So I attempted another one of my favorites… chocolate drizzled popcorn.  This is something I tried the first time I went to NYC and fell in love.  When I went back the store that had sold it had closed down and I haven’t been able to find it since.  I will admit Target carries a pretty amazing white chocolate/cinnamon popcorn but it still didn’t compare to the chocolate drizzled popcorn.  So I made my own chocolate drizzled and sprinkled with sea salt.  It was the perfect combination of sweet and salty.  I was surprised by how incredibly easy it was to make and couldn’t wait to pass it on!