This week, Shake is spending the weekend in Hāna, and I am incredibly envious. I’m just fanning the flames of jealousy by looking at these photos, but since I hadn’t gotten around to posting about our Hāna trip we took back in May, now’s as good a time as any!... 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
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 it comes to crumb cake, I really have no idea what I’m doing. I’m not sure if I’ve ever had an “authentic” crumb cake, nor one that really excited me. But it still seemed like a good pairing for ice cream. You see, a friend of ours gave us... Read More
Blood orange + olive oil? Is this one of those zany food combos that tastes amazing?” asked one of my friends when I posted this photo. Yes, indeedy, it is. Ever since discovering it at a shop in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Shake and I have been head over heels... Read More
It would be cute to say that my “Deep Freeze Tiki” ice cream flavor and orgeat-making experiment were inspired by this past weekend’s cocktail seminar with Julie Reiner and Francesco Lafranconi, but the truth is, I was actually planning this flavor before I knew I’d be going to the event.... Read More
For Valentine’s Day (yes, I know—that was five months ago) Shake bought me an ice cream maker. It sounds like just one yuppie step up from the oft-mocked husband-buys-wife-a-blender shtick, but I really did want one! (“You keep looking at that thing. Why don’t you just buy it already?!” Shake... Read More