0 TIRAMISÙ - THE DARING BAKERS

Is it me or time is really passing so fast? It seems that since I last blogged about the January Daring Bakers' challenge I barely have been able to sit down and think about the following one. Nowadays, I never get to finish completing my challenges before the very last minute (last day mostly)...Anyhow, it is with great joy that I write about the February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge which is hosted by Aparna of "My Diverse Kitchen" and Deeba of "Passionate About Baking". They chose "Tiramisù" as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, "Cordon Bleu At Home" and Baking Obsession.As...

0 H2OPE FOR HAITI

From Sunday, February 21 to Sunday, February 28th, BloggerAid Changing the Face of Famine (BA-CFF) will be launching H2Ope for Haiti, an online raffle to raise funds for Concern Worldwide's relief effort in Haiti.According to Tom Arnold, CEO of Concern Worldwide:“The destruction is profound, you see the devastation everywhere, but you see the depth of this tragedy most in the eyes of the people you meet as they struggle to survive, to respond and to grieve. The task ahead is huge.”Concern Worldwide estimates that its initial response to the emergency will last at least six months. In the coming weeks, Concern Worldwide’s priorities are to: Initiate...

0 MARDI GRAS KING CAKE - GÂTEAU DU ROI

I first got introduced to New Orleans when I started reading Anne Rice's novels on the Mayfair Witches. I remember how much I loved the context in which the story was told and how much magnificent NOLA was so poetically depicted...The scent of the place, it's incomparable atmosphere entwined with a long as well as tragic history of slavery and French bourgeoisie, it's fascinating old houses as well as it's musical background and vibrantly exotic exhuberance are all so well described in the writings of Anne Rice. For all those reasons, for me, New Orleans is synonymous with mystery, eery religious practices, good food, romantism as well as cheerfulness....