One of the tropes of the food blog is the home cook who reviews a recipe despite completely changing the recipe with “improvements.” Well, today is the day that I present to you a recipe that I have, in fact, completely changed — although as […]
When I was in college, I used to open my door during final exams and find a box of cookies underfoot. This meant that Jessica had been hard at work, somehow baking off hundreds of cookies in between studying for and taking exams. For […]
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…)