Happy Day Before Valentine’s Day, everyone! Shake and I are not really Valentine’s Day people, but I do have a soft spot for the girly things in life, like hearts and flowers and pink. So although Mom always said not play with our food, here’s a little foodie heart-shaped love... Read More
So, a while back, it seemed like “no-churn ice cream” was popping up all over my Pinterest feed. And then, Food52 did a post on making an ice cream cake with a meringue crust. And THEN it just kept getting hotter and hotter. So I did it. I made a no-churn... Read More
Just a really quick post today because I’m both sick and totally slammed at work… In the calm before the storm, I sick-no-baked (translation: while sick, I puttered in the kitchen without involving the oven because it is SO RIDICULOUSLY HOT). I bought two pounds of Kula strawberries from Kula... Read More
A few weekends ago, I did a bit of experimental baking. On our Summer Road Trip, I picked up a bottle of Woodford Reserve Sassafras and Sorghum Bitters. Not long after we returned, our friend Malia gave us a bottle of Bar Keep Apple Bitters. (These aren’t the exact same... Read More
This is not the sort of thing that normally comes out of my kitchen. For one thing, it’s much more fantastically decorated than anything I usually make.* For another, not only is it not edible, it’s made of the last thing you’d ever expect to find in the Sugar +... Read More
When you have a “Best Neighbor Ever” like @Melissa808, you get to come home and find awesome stuff like a bag full of kaffir limes hanging on your door. Last month, when we went to the Maui AgFest, Melissa bought a whole bunch of kaffir limes and was kind enough... Read More
I was never that kid who went into paroxysms of glee over a spoonful of peanut butter. (I preferred my peanut butter spread on a slice of whole wheat bread…topped off with a healthy helping of chocolate chips.) But Shake really likes peanut butter. So for his Family Birthday Dinner... Read More
After a round of baking, the sight of all the dishes to clean up usually bums me out. But sometimes there’s beauty to be found. I made a batch of Peanut Butter & Jelly Blondies (recipe from a recent issue of Bon Appétit) for Shake’s birthday. No one else was... Read More