love, actually at home: a very cupid-inspired recipe roundup
As much as I want to love Valentine’s Day, it admittedly has a knack for falling a bit flat. Sure I love getting a gorgeous bunch of flowers and being treated to a nice dinner just as much as the...
View Articleon breakfast disclosures: honeyed peanut ice cream with dark chocolate freckles
Confession: I had a (very generous) spoonful of ice cream this morning before I even took one sip of my coffee or one bite of my seven-whole-grain-fiber-packed-uber-healthy Kashi-nuggets. And of...
View Articlean impulsive spring: strawberry, rhubarb, + pear bake with lemon basil crumble
If ever there was a time that impulse shopping were permissible (and even encouraged), it is now. After a long Winter full of hard-skinned squash and potatoes, and then an early Spring awash with...
View Articleimpulsively waiting: lemon icebox pie
This pie was folded up and tucked into the pages of this year’s January issue of Saveur, which made its way into my shopping cart as I stood in the checkout line at the market just a few days before...
View Articlea taste of my old city: cornflake chocolate chip marshmallow cookies
I’ve not minced my words when it comes to the fact that I will always have a big ole’ soft spot for my former stomping grounds. Besides the people – my fabulous friends, hysterical co-workers, the...
View Articleso the time bode well: carrot cake with mascarpone-cream cheese icing
Though I can’t say there are many good things to come out of spending the better part of three hours at the Department of Motor Vehicles with what always feels like...
View Articlea birthday treat best: cappuccino ice cream with dark chocolate + sea salt
Sort of along the lines of “What do you get a girl that has everything?” is the perhaps not-asked-as-oft question: “What do you get a girl that positively swoons over scoops of ice cream?” Of course...
View Articlewith that sweet southern drawl: king cake
Two of my favorite Manhattanites arrived in New York by way of Mississippi, and without a doubt I always received the most attention while keeping their company. The harsh staccato of a New Yawk...
View Articlethe whole shebang: 6300 miles and a whole (lazy) lemon tart, iphone edition
My past 28 days have looked something like this: Santa Barbara, CA –> Baltimore, MD –> Wilton, CT –> Lake Joseph, Ontario (Canada) –> New York City, NY –> Baltimore, MD –> Santa...
View Articlethe more they change, the more they stay the same: salted dark chocolate...
At times it feels like I just left New York; though it was three years ago (and nearly exactly to the day), The City still holds court as the single place I’ve rested my head for the most nights...
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