A week ago today, I was still riding off the sugar high that was the Chile Chocolate Takedown. In the middle of the gorgeous Brooklyn Botanic Garden, six contenders met to battle chiles and chocolate. Only one victor emerged, and if you can’t tell from the above picture, the winner was ME! Every year, there is a Chile Fiesta at BBG and
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For the full story behind these babies, check out my chocolate chile adventure. These are bars in the loosest sense of the word. A simple graham cracker crust, a rich ganache held together with an egg, and a marshmallow that at times, acts like it will never sit on top of the base. That’s ok – no matter if things fall
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Being an adult is hard. Being an adult in New York City is like Double Double, Animal Style hard – awesome, amazing, but holy hell does it challenge and overwhelm you. (Yeah, I’m another East Coast resident slightly obsessed with In n Out and insisted on using that phrase even if it didn’t make sense.) Lately, I ‘ve had some
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