Sweet, Simple, Seriously Chocolate Pudding
Sometimes you just need things to be easy and uncomplicated. To cap off a long week, you want something familiar. Something simple and delicious. That’s what this chocolate pudding is, just simple....
View ArticleCold Drip Coffee Chip Ice Cream
Over the last year, Wolf has been on a mission to get back in shape and now he’s been doing various half marathons and triathalons. As his diet shifted from calorie restricted to training, one of the...
View ArticleSoft and Chewy Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Miso Cookies
It always makes me laugh that instant ramen is (dis)regarded as college food. It’s the savior for the days when you’re so broke you drink Keystone Light and survive on a 33 cent pack of noodles. You...
View ArticleFinding My Way Back: Maple Walnut Squares
Walnuts. Ruiner of fudgy chocolate brownies, scourge of chocolate chip cookies, I’ve tolerated you, but there’s no love lost between us. You’re slightly bitter and unless you’re incognito, almonds and...
View ArticleBirthday Cakes & Simple Apple Galettes
Sometimes you just have to do a little something for yourself. My birthday was on a Monday this year, so I didn’t take it as a day off. Instead, I thought about getting myself cupcakes or a dozen...
View ArticleCarrot Cake Cookies for January (and All the Year Through)
It’s the first Monday in the new year. Gyms will be packed, kale will be in short supply and you’ll be able to get a drink at your favorite bar as everyone is trading gin for juice (mean green, that...
View ArticleFlying to New York for a Froyo Break
I blew through New York City a couple of weeks ago, rolling in on a Red Eye Tuesday morning, and jetting out on Wednesday evening. Road warriors, I do not envy you. The red eye is a killer. Even...
View ArticleMade: Cake Merchant’s Vegan Double Chocolate Cookies
Premise: Chocolate Chocolate Chip cookies gone vegan. Recipe: Cake Merchant’s Vegan Dark Chocolate Olive Oil Sea Salt Cookies Tweaks: I used slightly less granulated sugar (er, no I didn’t measure)...
View ArticleAre you Sincerious?* >> Salted Caramel Ice Cream
I had a brief moment of panic. The sugar and water was quickly moving from golden brown to mahogany, so I took it off the heat. It continued to bubble and I thought, what, I’m just supposed to pour...
View ArticleOnly 8 Years: Pizzelle & Raspberry Gelato
It took extreme laziness and a heat wave to finally get me here. All I needed was a box of ice cream cones, but it was too hot to walk and I too lazy to get in the car. After eight years, I finally...
View ArticleTillamook + Stumptown > Hazelnut Cold Brew Ice Cream Sodas
Tillamook recently released a new line of “super premium” ice cream, frozen custard and gelato with flavors including Salted Caramel Toffee, California Pistachio, TCHO Double Dark Chocolate,...
View ArticlePeach Melba Ice Cream – the Easy Way
I think of Peach Melba as an old school dessert. It’s true, the real peach melba dates back to the 1890s, but for me, it dates back to the 1980s when that peach-raspberry combo was my mom’s...
View ArticleZucchini Cake with Ginger & Hazelnuts
I’m on a bit of a zucchini kick. For a vegetable that doesn’t offer a whole heck of a lot of flavor on it’s own, it’s turning up on our table a lot these days. There was that simple zucchini salad last...
View ArticleBrandied Cranberry Hazelnut Bars
Are you ready to put aside the pumpkin? Let's get a move on. It's cranberry time.
View ArticleNantucket Cranberry Pie – It’s Really a Cake
During the holidays, Trader Joe’s is a minefield of treats, from Peppermint Joe Joe’s to chocolate advent calendars to Jingle Jangle candy-pretzel mix. You almost have to put on blinders to avoid...
View ArticleWhat Do You Do with Coffee Flour?
Food media first talked about Coffee Flour as a speciality product in 2015 and it’s just landed at Trader Joe’s, as part of a caffeine-fueled blitz of coffee-flavored products. I like the idea of...
View ArticleHot Cross Buns or Not Cross Buns? The Choice is Yours
I’m known to bake hot cross buns any time of year, except maybe summer. Since Easter isn’t a huge holiday for us, Good Friday usually sneaks up on me. This year, I’m ready. Over the last few years,...
View ArticleSMITTEN KITCHEN PRETZEL LINZERS WITH SALTED CARAMEL
You may have breezed past these Pretzel Linzers with Salted Caramel when you picked up Deb Perelman’s latest, Smitten Kitchen EveryDay. When I did my first look at the book, they caught my eye, but...
View ArticleBaked Chocolate Donuts with Strawberry Glaze
I make everything about food. So when I finished reading Jasmine Guillory’s fantastic novel, The Wedding Date, one of the things I latched onto was the heroine’s love for pink donuts with sprinkles....
View ArticleGUINNESS CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES WITH IRISH CREAM From Ottolenghi’s Sweet
There are about a zillion recipes for Guinness brownies out there. Some use store bought brownie mix, some go from scratch. This year I put all that aside when I saw the Guinness chocolate cakes with...
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