Category Archives: Food and Drink

Lulu’s Sweets Make Life Decadent

Wouldn’t it be nice to have biscotti delivered to you every morning? I got hooked on biscotti when I lived in Italy with a 79-year-old woman I called Nona. She was so frugal that she used to weigh the pasta everyday before she cooked it so we had no leftovers. I used to think she was trying to starve me to death because she would only give me three biscotti in the morning with a tiny espresso. Then I found the biscotti bag hidden in the china cabinet. It’s amazing I didn’t gain 50 pounds.

Mondel BreadLauren Harris of the online bakery LuLu’s Sweets makes a mean Mondel Bread, which are almond biscuits of Jewish origin. (“Mandlin” means almonds in Yiddish and “mandole” means almonds in Italian. There are other words to describe these cookies like Mandelbrot and Mandel Brod–aren’t languages fun?). Lauren uses a recipe handed down from her grandma, who fled Russia in 1918.

Lulu’s Sweets offers selections like lemon poppy seed, pistachio and dried cherries, and white chocolate. Other decadent offerings include her chocolate choc_chip_cookieschip cookies, smores_cookieschoc_toffee_matzasmores and chocolate toffee matzo. Wow.

I’ve sampled the goods. They’re delicious!

www.lulussweets.com

-Stylechica.

Rancho La Puerta-exercise and eat veggies!

The funny thing about this article is that a few friends have told me, "Oh how cool, you got to go to baja!" Very cool…except the transmission to our car broke on the return trip and we literally coasted over the border before coming to a halt in an abandoned mini mall in Tecate, Calif. We left a trail of transmission fluid behind us. Then we bought a bottle of new fluid and poured it into the car, which leaked right through all over the cement. The stench! Anyway, the first tow-truck that came was the wrong kind and the proper tow truck arrived at 2 a.m. We didn’t get towed to San Diego until 4 a.m. That’s my association with this article…

Rancho La Puerta Article