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

I haven’t done a “We Ate It” Round-Up in a while (since March!!) because apparently, I have been eating nothing but cookies. OK, that’s not really true (it’s really because we’ve been traveling and going to so many events). But seriously, when I called up all the photos taken in... Read More

Today’s Friday Photo is just a plea to ask you to vote for my “Smoking Jacket Cookies” (Dark Chocolate & Cheesecake Chunk Smoked Tea Shortcake Cookies) in the Fonseca BIN 27 Port Cookie Rumble contest. Here’s the link to vote: http://bit.ly/16qZBYm. The recipe is there too, but if you check... Read More

I found out a couple weeks ago that Fonseca BIN 27 Port is holding a contest, asking entrants to create a cookie recipe that pairs well with, well, duh, port. “Oh, that’s a good idea!” said Shake, when I told him about what I had in mind to make for... Read More

This photo comes from one of my earliest blog posts, “Strawberry Shortcake, Huckleberry Pie,” and one of my first photo sessions documenting the baking process, setting out props and using the lovely natural daylight that I hadn’t really been using before, previously only shooting dinner dishes at night. It was... Read More

Shake got samples of Sea Salts of Hawai‘i’s variety packs for a photo shoot recently and I got to keep them to play with! What to make, what to make…? Cookies!! Who doesn’t love cookies, right? Honestly, I don’t know how I got the idea to do these; I think... Read More

Shake had been after me for a while to make him Momofuku Milk Bar Corn Cookies. You see, Williams-Sonoma carries a ready-to-bake mix, and every time we visited the store, he’d say, “See, look, you can make me Corn Cookies — you just have to get this box!” But, since... Read More

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Strawberry Shortcake. I had a Strawberry Shortcake dress my mom made me, a Strawberry Shortcake sleeping bag for school naptime, Strawberry Shortcake board games, Strawberry Shortcake lotions and nail polish and, of course, little smelly Strawberry Shortcake dolls. But I don’t... Read More