This is one of those rare times where two of my passions — pets and chocolate — collide, and without doing any harm to anyone!

From now until the holidays, when you make an online purchase from one of my personal chocolate recommendations, Sucré in New Orleans, one dollar from every order goes directly to the Louisiana SPCA!
Sucré Executive Pastry Chef Tariq Hanna and his dog Bon Bon are making this holiday season even sweeter. Bon Bon knows what it is like to have a kind, caring owner and she wants all of her less fortunate furry friends have the same …read more

I usually make these chocolate chips accordion treats during the holidays but they’re also good anytime of the year. They are cute little treats to munch on or pair with a cup of hot tea.

INGREDIENTS :
2 sheets of foil, about a cookie sheet long
3/4 cup of butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup of mini-chocolate chips

Congratulations are in order for many occasions, and Hershey’s has decided to help you say it in a personal way 

If you read and/or buy just one cookbook this season, make it “Chocolate for Breakfast,” the new pictorial cookbook produced by the people at Napa Valley’s Oak Knoll Inn, written by Barbara Passino, and with photographs by Hoberman. This delightful 285-page tome is nice enough as a coffee table book or to display in your kitchen, but in addition to the beautiful, color photographs, the book features some surprising–and tasty–food combinations.

Among the more than 100 recipes are fun things like Chocolate Tacos (chocolate tortillas filled with berries and sorbet), Watermelon and Feta Salad (dusted with chocolate!), a Lacy Singapore …read more

I sometimes have this recurring dream where I obsessively devour chocolate. I always have to find it, because there really isn’t any in the house, so I’ll go to a store and buy up all the best chocolate – like when I used to get the stoned munchies.

I’ll shove chocolate filled and iced donuts in my mouth, savoring the slippery cream, licking it off my fingers.

I’ll pile chocolate candies on the counter and be panting with my need to shove it in my mouth.

I’ll dream of deliciously pretty cakes and eating the whole thing.

In my dreams, eating the chocolate is …read more

Much of the time, I feel like such a fraudulent lightweight, compared to so many of my colleagues here at b5.media. I mean look at the important work, for example, that Noel is doing over at Unplugged Living, Shai over at Self Help Diva, Elizabeth at GenBetween — and of course, the prolific Ingrid who is everywhere.
Yes, it’s true, we’ve covered meaty topics such as employee/employer relationships, adversity during a presentation, the benefits and drawbacks of owning a small business — but most of the time, I wish I were on a perpetual coffee …read more