Food In The Fort

I don’t know who Patty is, or how she could cram such insane levels of yumminess into one recipe, but her Ricotta and Chocolate Cake recipe is so good that we made it twice in as many days. Of course, when a recipe starts with ricotta cheese, sugar, chocolate chips and not one, but two sticks of butter you pretty much know right away that you have a winner.

Catherine made the first instance of this cake for the students she advises in the International Student Organization meeting at Canterbury School. After sampling it for breakfast, and then seeing the way it was devoured by the students we decided we absolutely had to make it again for ourselves. Despite our springform pan deciding to suddenly fall apart just before putting the cake in the oven (don’t worry — all was saved) it was not a decision we regretted. Read the rest of this entry »

Would you know your fusilli from your orecchiette? How about the difference between linguine and fetucine? Maybe not, but I’d be willing to bet that you’d know pasta is delicious no matter what the shape. Still, if you’d like to impress your friends and family with your command of all pasta, great and small, then this fun and informative quiz is just what you need to shore up your shaky knowledge of pasta shapes. Alas, I only scored 71% but you can probably do better. Let us know in comments. Hat tip goes to Slashfood for this enjoyable time waster.

Photo credit: Rachel Been, AOL.