Anthony Lombardi

I’ve made quite a few Christmas treats this holiday season. Here’s some pictures of some of them. This is one of my family’s favorite Christmas cookies.  They’re called Wandering Jews but none of us quite know why.  We also don’t know where our grandma got the recipe.   This is one of those cookies that only [...]

I’ve wanted to try making pop tarts for a while now, and I finally did after finding this blog about it: Chez Pim. My version is puff pastry (instead of pie pastry) wrapped around 2 squares of Ghirardelli chocolate.  I like the airy flakiness of puff pastry.  It works quite well with the chocolate because [...]

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.

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 [...]