Posted by Jamie Forrest, June 10, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Photograph from sabotrax on Flickr
This week is the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates the Jews receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai. The holiday is perhaps most famous for its connection with eating dairy foods, a tradition whose origin is usually traced to a line in Exodus (3:17) that refers to Israel as a land "flowing with milk and honey." It is fitting, then, that one of the most prominent dairy foods Jews eat on Shavuot is cheesecake, one of the greatest expressions of the beautiful marriage between sweetness and cream.
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Posted by Robyn Lee, June 18, 2007 at 5:30 PM
I initially found it strange that something whose main flavors are green tea, cheesecake, and white chocolate could be called a brownie, but Amy of Nook & Pantry explained that blondie wasn't the right term because blondies tend to be made with brown sugar and regular chocolate chips, not white chocolate. Admittedly, I can't think of a better name; I would refer to the angelic looking bars as, "Oh Sweet Pastry Gods, I Really Want That." You can make your own by using Amy's recipe.
Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 6, 2007 at 9:59 AM
yumsugar points out that today, March 6, is somehow both Chocolate Cheesecake Day and the day Nabisco debuted the Oreo cookie in 1912, so hey, why not make a Chocolate Oreo Cheesecake to celebrate?
