Chocolate-Dipped Peeps

For a little fun on Easter, and to use up extra chocolate coating I had in the fridge from Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Bananas, I decided to give some Peeps a chocolate bath.  I skewered the little yellow bunnies with toothpicks and then dunked them in a narrow wine glass in which I put the coating.

Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Bananas

One of the simplest frozen desserts to make is chocolate-dipped frozen bananas. It’s a great way to use up bananas that are at the peak of ripeness but that you don’t want to eat right away. There are many recipes around for it, but of the ones I tried I wasn’t satisfied for one reason [...]

Point Reyes Wildflowers

I tried out my new camera on a recent trip to Point Reyes with Lisa. Here’s some nice pics of wildflowers there, with an explanation of each one. This one above is called Bleeding Hearts (Dicentra formosa). It’s not hard to see why. It’s one of the more unusual wildflowers I’ve seen. They seemed to [...]