Thanksgiving happened! I helped my mom by making the green bean casserole, peeling potatoes, forming the rolls, confirming that turkey was getting a nice bronze tan, and by making this cheesecake. My mom loves cheesecake, so I figured she’d be the perfect lady to hang out with and bake my first real one. I mean, I’ve made mini’s before and cupcakes before, but this was the real deal … 2 pounds of cream cheese, baked…
I made these on Sunday. Maybe I needed to make them because I was thinking about going to Minnesota (Minne-snow-duh) for Thanksgiving. So, now I’m in Minnesota! I’m cooking with my mom and there sure is snow (duh!). These look kinda snowy, so they look kinda festive. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! These could be the appetizer dessert (dessertetizer) before all the pies and pumpkin goodness. What I’m trying to say is that this Thanksgiving I’m thankful for…
What do you do when you are in a funk? I find that there a few things I do. I cheer myself up by wearing my most favorite high-healed clogs that make boring outfits look hip. Walking Elliot always helps. In those minutes we are outside and he’s prancy-walking and I’m girly-walking, things are good. Putting beer in cake and browning butter for a glaze helps too. My day got a lot better once this…
These scones look like awkwardly shaped cookies, and they kinda taste like them. They are like cookie-granola bar-scones. They have a really good personality. Basically, this is the go-to recipe when you have a few kinds of chocolate chips, and a 6 walnuts, and a little bag of coconut left. They are good at making all those things feel like they were in your pantry for a reason. They make the end-bits feel good about themselves.…
I’ve been craving Pad Thai for exactly one week. So finally, I perused around for recipes and Jake and I cooked it up. Elliot didn’t help. He doesn’t have thumbs. Except he did eat the chicken that flew out of the pot, because I stir in a very messy way. So I guess, he did help … in the eating-flying-chicken way. I had no idea that Napa cabbage was such a big part of this…
Since these are best warm, I ate three. Three’s not a crowd in my belly. I’m glad these worked out and taste like heaven … especially since I tried to make pumpkin goodness, but messed it up by using too much evaporated milk because I don’t know what a “tall can” is. But these made me feel way better! I think I’ll make these the next time I get my hair cut and the stylist…
Breakfast should always be disguised as dessert on the weekend. When I was a kid, my mom would sometimes make waffles and sandwich ice cream in the middle. I think these waffles would be really good at that. They’d taste like a breakfast malt, and that sounds like the best idea yet! Have you bought the Baked Explorations cookbook yet? If you haven’t, you should probably get right on it. Every single recipe is dreamy looking.…
Rumor has it, this bread was named after a sassy husband and his wife Anna. The husband was sick of corn meal mush in his life. He said, “Damn it, Anna, I’m just really sick of corn meal mush, and now you’re putting it in bread?! I’m over it, bia.” So now you have it. Unlike that sassy husband, I love corn meal everything. If it was up to me I’d call this bread Thanksanna…
When I was a kid, I thought carrot cake was super gross. Now I know better. It’s not scary at all; it’s just a really pretty orange spice cake with cream cheese frosting. I grated a pound of carrots. (While grating, I wondered why the YMCA doesn’t have a carrot-grating class, because it wore my arms out.) Anyhow, I grated them really teeny so that they wouldn’t be weird and crunchy in the cake, but…
My mom’s love for biscuits has passed on to me. Like her, I make these willy nilly. Late night snack? Sure thing. Saturday breakfast? Yum. These biscuits taste like an after-work snack or like a weekend miracle. They taste especially good right out of the oven, with a nice little crunch. They taste dreamy for a couple days, but I doubt they’ll last that long. I recommend throwing these together while you’re waiting for beef…