Have you ever noticed how all of the best baked goods start from the same simple ingredients? It’s pretty amazing when you think about it: By using little more than flour, sugar, butter, eggs and salt in varying amounts, you can create all sorts of wonderful things — and different wonderful things at that. It’s…
Reflecting on a brownie
Brownies are tricky. Amidst all my baking escapades during the past few years, I haven’t been able to perfect a homemade brownie. It’s certainly possible that I’m doing something wrong: mixing things too much, not enough or not in the right order. But for the most part, I blame the box. Boxed brownies that is….
Project NYT: Julia et Katrina?
La, la, la laaaaaa! Behold Amanda Hesser’s New York Times Essential Cookbook, the monster of a cookbook I’ve been eyeing for the past few months, brought to Jared and me this Christmas from the man in red. Woo hoo! I am beyond excited to crack it open and get started. And with 932 pages of…
Happy Christmas, Harry!
As my chocolate-filled advent calendar was kind enough to point out this morning: It’s here, it’s here! Christmas Eve is here! Woo to the hoo! Woot woot! And every other happy exclamation I use on this blog o’ mine (Yay! Yahoo! Eep!)! Today will no doubt be filled with bunches of baking and wrapping, spending time…
House, you look like a cold mess
Jared and I both consider ourselves to be pretty clean people (you’re relieved to hear that, I’m sure). But after three and a half years of marriage, I’ve learned that clean is one of those to-each-his/her-own kind of things. For all the things that drive me bonkers (clutter, dirty dishes, things not being in their…
Ode to a cookie: Recipe for a masterpiece
I love cookies (cue Cookie Monster: Om, nom, nom). Mixing, rolling, cutting, baking: I love every step of the process. Oh yes, and the eating. That’s good, too. During the past year especially, I’ve found that baking, particularly baking cookies, works wonders for my stress level (I realized while writing this that my go-to stress…
Tour de lights = tour de force
A few years ago, Jared and I stumbled upon a new tradition after finishing up some last-minute Christmas shopping. It was just getting dark outside when we pulled into the Starbucks drive-thru, grabbed a few festive beverages and started to head back home. A pretty decent snowstorm had passed through the area a few days…
Waffles: I like ’em pipying hoot from the gleede.
With Christmas less than a week away (which means mountains of baked goods, candy and holiday grub are on the very close horizon), it would probably behoove us to start preparing our tummies for the impending feast. Then again, muscles tend to work better with frequent use, so perhaps the tummy works the same way….
The making of a wrap star
As per my usual, I’m running on list-y mode via a checklist I started a few days ago with all of my pre-holiday to-dos: addressing Christmas cards, mailing Christmas cards, buying stamps for Christmas cards (as Clarice, Rudolph’s lady love, sang, “There’s always tomorrow…”). But last night, it was all about the wrapping. Wrapping has…
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