Pastry Chef Richard Ruskell’s Delicious Dessert Class
“Yes You Can Desserts” Class With Chef Richard Chef Richard & Your DBF Blogger. I took a “Yes You Can Desserts” class last Wednesday at The Montage Beverly Hills in the new Scarpetta restaurant...
View ArticleDeathbed Dessert Alert: Mom’s (Gravenstein) Apple Tart
Gravensteins? You Gotta Make a Bon Appetit Tart … but, Sorry! Mom Won’t Share her Secret Recipe Modification Sometimes I need to break away from restaurants, chefs, food trends to get back home to...
View ArticleTop 8 DeathbedFood Desserts of 2011
I Ate 8 DeathbedFood Desserts This Year A key part of “DeathbedFood” for me is Dessert. As noted in many of my adventures this year, Dessert is often the most memorable part of a DeathbedFood...
View ArticleLA Foodie Goes To New York: ABC Kitchen Is Destination #1
New York’s ABC Kitchen Is Dining To Die For As an LA Foodie, I’m quite often defensive of my turf. Don’t you talk smack about how much you love our “strip mall food” (hello, Anthony Bourdain). Still,...
View ArticleSeasons 52 Mini Desserts To Die For
No Guilt Gluttony At Seasons 52 Why go to Seasons 52 in Century City – or any of their locations throughout the country? Two words: mini dessert. Each is 300 calories or less so no guilt! My kind of...
View ArticleRed Velvet Recipe That’s DeathbedFood
Don’t Judge a Cake by its Photo. My Red Velvet Cake may not be pretty, but it’s DeathbedFood. Today I’m sharing the recipe! I learned about Red Velvet when I lived in Michigan in 1999. A girl in my...
View ArticleThe Lamborghini Of Kouign-Amann
Milo + Olive Kouign-Amann’s My Dream Car. At the first bite of Milo + Olive‘s Mexican Chocolate Kouign-Amann, I fanned myself while blurting out “This is the Ferrari of kouign-amann”. Pastry chef Zoe...
View ArticleFarmshop Marin Desserts Are DeathbedFood.
I die for Meringue + Ricotta. I’ve written about Farmshop Marin before (Farmshop made my day in 2015) but two of their current desserts made me do it again: Ricotta Cake with roasted stonefruit and...
View ArticleHow To Make 50-year-old Apple Pie.
The oldest recipes are the best recipes. I recently made an apple pie with my mom using her favorite Betty Crocker recipe. Her cookbook is more than 50 years old and looks it. She’s written notes,...
View ArticleNana’s Chocolate Chip Cake.
Cream cheese makes it DeathbedFood. I never thought I’d have a cooking blog but it’s looking like it might go that way. I’ve done a pandemic pivot from on-the-scene bar bellying to sock-clad cooking...
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