i’m unable these days to really take on any big cooking projects, due to exhaustion from school. anything that requires more than an hour is pretty much out of the question right now, unless i don’t have to babysit it – making chicken stock comes […]
so i found these cookies on photograzing: apple-cider cookies with caramel inside. the photo looks amazing – a ribbon of caramel stretching lusciously between two halves of a cookie – and i’m thinking to myself, a stuffed cookie like a caramel-filled truffle? no awkward compression […]
for the past several months, i’ve been taking friday evenings off – it’s the end of the week, and i’m really feeling the sleep deprivation for that particular week. plus, i work the weekends, so essentially friday nights are my weekend. usually i find myself making dinner with mary, though at this point we’re fairly notorious for not actually eating until 10pm or later. by the time mary gets out of work and to central, it’s 7:30, and then we invariably go food shopping; we start cooking around 8:30 or 9…you get the point.
i’ve had a craving for pumpkin pie ever since fall really arrived – there’s just something so festive and seasonal about it. we never really ate pie growing up – cheesecake was our MO – and so now i love all kinds of pies: pumpkin, pecan, chocolate, custard, cream. and of course the best kind of pie is leftover pie – leftover pie for breakfast the next day. (more…)
a couple weeks ago, i fell in love. i don’t normally go for non-classic bundt pans because they are usually too complicated. why would i want a sunflower-, rose-, or sandcastle-shaped bundt pan? that the cake isn’t a standard layer cake is already enough for […]