A Nice Healthy Fruit Salad, Chock Full of Marshmallow and Chocolate

First off, sorry for the two weeks of not posting, I’d intended to post while on vacation, but the Atlantic Ocean got the better of me. Anyhow, here’s to a higher posting frequency in the future! I have always held the opinion that a fruit salad just isn’t a proper fruit salad without chocolate. I [...]

My unending search for good marzipan

I have a bit of marzipan obsession. Not the weird marzipan that gets shaped into fruits, I’m talking about super awesome European marzipan that is coated in chocolate. Ok, I’m not actually sure I’ve ever tried the fruit-shaped marzipan, to be honest. I’m just intimidated by eating fruit that isn’t fruit! In any case, for [...]

Coctel de Camarones: Both Delicious and Shrimptastic

Coctel de camarones is Spanish for “shrimp cocktail”, but it’s quite different than shrimp cocktail. The English-speaking version of shrimp cocktail generally involves giant shrimp which are dipped into a red cocktail sauce – delicious, but primarily an appetizer. Coctel de camarones, however, is a cold soup filled with vegetables and shrimp, sort of like [...]