This summer hasn't been too brutal, so there's no reason not to turn on the AC and make candies. These little truffles are addictive and delicious. To personalize them, you can use whichever spices you prefer to flavor the ganache. If you use milk chocolate instead of dark, however, you'll need to adapt the recipe by using a 1:2.5 ratio of heavy cream to chocolate instead of the 1:2 ratio specified in this recipe......

After garlic scape season is over, garlic flowers are ready, full of garlic seeds. You don't usually see these at the greenmarkets unless you ask a kind farmer to bring them in for you, but if you do, they are just wonderful, a rare treat. The garlic flowers are bursting with seeds like tiny cloves of garlic, packed all around the surface of the spherical flower. When you get them home, it takes some......

These crostini make wonderful appetizers and snacks, a rich bright complex flavor for very little time and effort. If you don't want to cook in this heat (and who can blame you for fleeing the stove during the summer?), you can buy duck confit pre-made at any gourmet grocery and only spend a minute at the stove reheating it and sizzling the aromatics to put these crostini together. Fresh curry leaves are easy to......