A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
My sister texted me the other day, “I felt an inspiration for you to make a bake with Andes mints.” There’s nothing like letting someone else know you felt an inspiration for them to do something. I feel inspiration for a lot of people to do a lot of things and, wouldn’t you know, they…
This was just going to be a “3 Ingredient Pumpkin Soup” that I saw on Bon Appetit the other day. But then I thought… why not make it a bit more exciting? Like, I’ve got the 3 base ingredients I suppose. but why not make it a bit more substantial? So I added onions and…
Now that it’s October, I have been easing in to the pumpkin baking season. But I was flabbergasted by a recent Bon Appetit headline recently. It said we’re now in “baking season.” Not just pumpkin baking season. Baking season. And it occurred to me… are there people out there who only bake during Oct-Dec? Exclusively…
I firmly believe that most meals can be zhuzhed-up very easily. You can take an average meal – pasta, soup, eggs and bagel – and transform it by just putting in a bit more care, a bit more seasoning, a bit more butter… a bit more sauce! And I have to say… taking an average…
The past few times I’ve asked my family if they have any dessert requests, my sister’s answer has just been “chocolate.” Simple, to the point. And last time she said that, I realized that in all the variations, I’ve never made a chocolate version of these sugar cookies! It seemed about time. So I went…
Basque cheesecake is truly some of the best possible cheesecake, I think. But, it doesn’t have a crust! And I am usually someone who is all about the crust on my pies and cheesecakes. So when my brother requested cheesecake for his birthday, I decided on Basque cheesecake with a crumb to sprinkle on top…
I was bemoaning the amount of graham crackers I had, but a stroke of genius led me to a way to use them up. Key lime pie sugar cookies! Another twist on the now classic recipe. I need to remember for the future. Graham crackers = s’mores, but there are also plenty of other use…
I think people frequently think that I don’t like ideas for my baking. So many times I ask people what they want or if they have any requests, and they just say “oh, whatever you can come up with.” I can come up with things all day, but sometimes I don’t want to! And sometimes…