Brownies are the perfect dessert. I could pretend to have more refined tastes (and I’ve never said no to anything sweet – yum!) but brownies are the perfect mix of my two favorite things – chocolate and bread. Brownies are easy to make too but until yesterday, I had not made a great one. I [...]
Here’s a quick update of what we’ve been up to. First, it snowed. A lot. There was enough snow that David and Zoe made an igloo. We made snow cream. (About a cup of milk, a bit of vanilla and a bit of sugar, stir it up and pour it over a bowl of fresh [...]
This time of year makes me want to use exclamation points all the time! I’ll try to keep it to a minimum but its hard, especially when you’re making whoopie pies! Zoe and Tommy saw this recipe in the newspaper for Two Bite Gingerbread Whoopie Pies and thought it was the funniest name they’d ever [...]
One of the things I hate buying at the grocery store are crackers. So much packaging, so expensive and so few actual crackers in the box. But on the flip side, they are a fabulous go-to quick snack with peanut butter or cheese or hummus or even just plain, so I always buy them. And [...]
This week has been a comical one in the kitchen. On Monday, I made a sweet potato-onion-parsnip galette with a spare pie crust I had in the freezer. Everything was going great until I tried to add some more sweet potatoes to the pan 10 minutes into the baking and managed to drop the entire [...]