Was Chocolate the very First Thing for Milton Hershey?
Well, if you answered, “Yes” to the titular question, you got it wrong!
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Apr 8
Sep 2
Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter Treats
These special treats are easy to make in a snap and soooooo yummy! Read more
Feb 18
No Guilt Chocolate
Last Thursday we celebrated Valentine’s Day. Do you have any idea just HOW MUCH chocolate was eaten? Read more
Nov 11
Ah…..Chocolate!
It is odd to think of life without a good piece of chocolate! Although the peoples of the United States were introduced to drinking chocolate in the mid-1700’s, it was not until the mid-1800’s that they were able to enjoy chocolates, as we know them today, and not until later on in the 1800’s that milk chocolate was being made.
Feb 27
Minny’s Chocolate Pie
Last night was one of my favorite of the year. It was Oscar night, or as my husband refers to it, “the super bowl for women”. He isn’t much interested in all the Red Carpet interviews with the stars and the clothes and jewelry, some of the things I LOVE about this event, but he participates because he enjoys movies almost as much as I do, and besides, he knows there will be food involved. Every year there is a small group of us who watch the Oscars together and the entree is themed around one of the Best Picture nominees. Read more
Feb 20
A Cherry on Top
Today as a nation we celebrate Presidents’ Day, which is basically a combined celebration of the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. When I was a child Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays were separate holidays and celebrated on their actual birthdays, which meant we had two days off of school unless, of course, one of them fell on a weekend. Read more
Feb 10
The Perfect Chocolate Cake
This is the story of how I came to have a recipe for THE PERFECT CHOCOLATE CAKE.
I am blessed with a husband who is extremely easy to please, at least as far as food is concerned. We will have been married 36 years on the 28th of this month, and in all that time he has never complained or had a negative comment about anything I have made for him. Anything, that is, except chocolate cake.
I love to bake (probably because I love to eat, but that’s another story) and I learned early on in our relationship that chocolate cake is Randy’s favorite. So, since I love to bake and I love Randy, I wanted to make him the best chocolate cake he had ever eaten on the first Valentine’s Day after we were married. I used a delicious sounding Bon Appetit recipe I had been saving and was thrilled at how it turned out. But to my dismay, when I served him my masterpiece, he was underwhelmed to say the least. I was sooooo disappointed because I wanted badly to make him happy and knowing that he was so easy to please about everything else, I was perplexed as to why he wasn’t delighted with the cake I had made especially for him.
