What do you do when you always have a stash of fresh, soft-baked biscotti in your house? You find yourself eating them at all hours of the day, thinking about how you can incorporate them into every meal (crumble on yogurt for breakfast! Dip them in milk for lunch! Warm up and toss over ice cream after dinner!) and what other potentially exotic and newfangled ways you can eat them.
Choices of what? New flavors of soft-baked biscotti, of course! A blessing and curse, really. See, the base of the cookie recipe that my grandmother created is incredibly versatile and like a blank canvas; ingredients that effortlessly meld together and result is a cookie foundation upon which dozens of flavor combinations can be built and played with.
Most likely where you live the air is getting cooler and that fabulous fall smell is permeating crisp mornings and early evenings- unless you live in San Francisco, like us, and you're thinking how sick you are of this October heat.
One of the reasons I love traveling so much is the opportunity to experience other cultures through their food. There is nothing quite like being unfamiliar with a menu's contents or even taking a morning to stroll through a farmer's market in a foreign place to see what undiscovered foods may delight (or sometimes, repel) your palate.
We can't believe it: 3 years ago Marlo's Bakeshop was launched with a secret family recipe and a hunger to share it with the world. Today, because of your SUPPORT, LOVE & APPETITE FOR WORTHY ADDICTIONS, our cookies are sold in over 400 stores with additional accounts coming on board each week.
What feels like decades ago (pretty sure it was less than a year ago though), I asked my fancy private chef friend Kellan to come have a drink with me. The idea of doing a food-centric podcast had been percolating in my brain for several months but I hadn't nailed...
There are few things more invigorating and motivating than when the sun starts to peak out at 6am or stay present until well after seven in the evening. It's like nature's way of saying, 'Wake up! And stay up! Take advantage of me."
We posted a photo on Instagram last week of some treadmill's at our local gym and the caption spoke to the eternal search for *balance* in one's life. Over the last couple years this concept has taken on more gravity and profundity for me since starting to work on Marlo's Bakeshop.
We had the sweet pleasure of being invited to the commissary kitchen of Kara's Cupcakes this week to spend some quality time with the empire's founder, baking genius Kara Lind.
