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I loved Tartine.
Tartine Bakery Window While looking at the admin page for my website just now, I noticed a few blog posts about my honeymoon that I started months and months ago and never posted. These posts were all...
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A year of fearless cooking.
Chocolate Macarons For the first time in a while, I got to spend all of last weekend at home with no real plans. I love weekends like this every now and again as they’re usually the weekends when I get...
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Making marshmallows is magical.
Homemade marshmallows! Last week I wrote a blog post stating that 2012 would be a year of fearless cooking. In that post, I listed a number of things I’d like to cook or bake for the first time ever....
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I no longer fail at making bread pudding.
Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce It’s only 37 days into 2012 and I’ve already successfully cooked several things I had never cooked before and as of yesterday, I finally made a decent batch of bread...
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The best French macarons in France?
French Macarons! Before we ever set foot in Paris, I knew that we would be headed to two famous French pastry shops, Pierre Hermé and Ladurée, to sample French macarons. Just in case you haven’t tried...
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A wagon full of strawberries.
Fresh strawberries Strawberry season is starting to wind down in my part of Virginia, but I took full advantage of it this year. Or as full advantage as a person with a small freezer can take. Since I...
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Remedy for a dearth of cake.
It’s recently come to my attention that I haven’t baked enough cake this year. I think my husband has been subtly mentioning this for months, but I apparently chose to pretend I didn’t hear him for...
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Lemony Cream Puffs
I haven’t made a lot of progress lately towards completing all of the items on the Year of Fearless Cooking list that I posted in January. But today I made a Boston cream pie and successfully (I...
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Selfless baking (and a banana cake recipe)
Banana Bread Bundt Cake with Chocolate Peanut Butter Glaze I like to share the things I bake with others (by and large, “others” refers to my husband), but I must admit that when I choose what to bake,...
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Sometimes I make terrible food.
The first weeks of 2015 have made me realize that I cook very few meals in any given week. To save time on weeknights and to supply our weekday lunches, I tend to cook meals that yield several days...
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