Posts tagged ‘Chocolate’
I must admit, 2008 is going to be a lot of fun if I can stick to Mark Stibich’s (PhD) top 10 ways to live longer. I will aspire to all ten but look forward to dedicating extra effort for some of the others 
Care to join me in a New Year’s Resolution ?
I’ve been trying to figure out what to get a friend of mine for her birthday. Carl’s comment following Lotusphere gave me the idea. You may recall that Instant Technologies had some really cool candies made with their company name in them. Carl noted …
If anyone is interested we gave out just over half a million calories in rock and lollipops at Lotusphere.
Not wanting a funny idea to go to waste (or waist as it were), I came up with the gift pictured here ! (There is approximately 150oz or 275 individually wrapped chocolate truffles in the jar.)
I’ve worked on my scone recipe for quite a while.
My cooking “process” is to get a good recipe / result and then try to find out just how simple / fast I can make it. For my scone recipe, the evolution took some time but the results are well worth it.
For anyone wanting to make this recipe, my word of advice is to make it *verbatim* until you get a good result and then and only then, start to tinker with it. Continue reading ‘White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Scones’ »
I start my day like a lot of you – with a caffeinated beverage. I never learned to drink coffee. (My unofficial servey shows the pivot point for most people was college; that was the early 80’s for me and I was drinking dew and cola then.)
A few years ago, ironically on the eve of Lotusphere, I had a huge project due and two presentations for the conference and I’m a big advocate for serious (aka real world) demos so I found myself working long hours and a few all nighters. I started drinking a poor man’s mocha. Continue reading ‘Morning Java (in Concentrate)’ »
