Surprise your chocolate loving Valentine with this calzone stuffed with raspberries and chocolate pudding! 2017 update: I created this recipe back in 2012 and it still one of my favorite recipes I make for Valentine’s Day. Sadly, Teresa’s has taken it off their menu but at least I can make it at home now and …

The Paris bakery sold only macarons – that’s right a patisserie displaying brightly colored hot pink, lavender, mint green, baby blue and light brown chocolate macarons. It was five year ago, but I still remember opening the door and stepping down a few steps as the sweet cookie aromas washed over me. Since then, I’ve …

I’ve never been a meatball-making expert – maybe it’s because I don’t have an Italian grandmother. (Grandma is Alsatian, but she makes a mean lasagna.) I could never quite master the art of browning meatballs evenly on all sides. Frying them yielded meatballs which were slightly charred on one side because I couldn’t get all …