Tarte Tatin

Tarte Tatin

Tarte Tatin This traditional French apple dessert reminds me of the caramel apples we get when we visit the orchard, just in a more elegant presentation.  It really isn’t that indulgent a dessert, filled with mostly fresh apples with some buttery pastry to go with...
Remember the Mousse?

Remember the Mousse?

We forgot the mousse! Never forget the mousse, especially Chocolate Mousse as prepared by Gourmet Business publisher David Spencer. We’d intended to add it to our Special New Year’s Dinner of Maple Leaf Farms delicious Duck! So, here’s the Mousse!...
A Vespar Cocktail with Singani 63

A Vespar Cocktail with Singani 63

Singani 63 www.singani63.com Singani 63 is a special spirit that is created with White Muscat grapes traced back to Alexandria Egypt, which have been grown in the Bolivian mountains at an altitude of 600 feet for over 500 years.  The spirit is recently available...
Inspiration for the New Year

Inspiration for the New Year

2020 is finally done…yet so much of 2021 is about rebuilding our human connections. We’ve learned a lot in confinement, most importantly that there is more to us than our careers or that we are our careers. Being self-reliant has become an artform in...