Dessert Party

Happy Valentine's Day - a day early. We are having our even-year-dessert party on Valentine's Day, celebrating love with much chocolate. And fruit, don't forget the fruit. Here is the list:

1. Chocolate espresso fudge cake
2. Chocolate chip peanut butter cake
3. Triple chocolate pumpkin pie
4. Chocolate pudding pie with whipped cream (aka fire)
5. Apple pie
6. Lemon bars
7. Large & luscious oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
8. Deep dark chocolate fudge cookies
9. Chocolate chip cookies
10. Fudgy brownies
11. Salted fudge brownies
12. Supernatural brownies
13. Fruit crisps
    Apple
    Cherry
    Cranberry
    Blueberry
14. Ice cream
    Stewart's
    Soy
15. Fruit - mixed

Our recipe sources:

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman (our new food bible)

Vegan Express by Nava Atlas (a local woman, she got a master's from SUNY New Paltz)

Death by Chocolate by Marcel Desaulniers (given to me by Candace Vancko after our first party in 2007)

Various things clipped from the New York Times and magazines, including the Thanksgiving issue of the Martha Stewart magazine, seen at TresOlay, my salon in New Paltz.

Our food sources:

Local as much as possible. Flour and oatmeal from Wild Hive (://www.wildhivefarm.com/), local and close. Ice cream from Stewart's (made near Albany). Eggs from Farm and Granary (farmandgranary@gmail.com), local and close. Organic chocolate. Unsalted butter made as close to the Hudson Valley as possible. Apples, blueberries and cherries frozen from the local harvest last fall.

Already stored in the garage: cookies and brownies. To come today: everything else.

Excess on the way!