I hope your day is as lovely as you are! PLUS: a cake memory for you to tuck into your Easter basket. Below is a throwback photo of a cake I made with my friend Mike, years ago. This cake wasn’t baked all the way and was decorated with dinosaur sprinkles. It was a really fun mess. Cheers to medium rare cake and mismatched sprinkles! Red Velvet Cake // 2004
Rumor has it these are girly, healthy muffins. But let me tell you, boys liked them too, despite the gingham papers. Taryn (friend, stylist, blogger) asked me to make these for the next photo shoot we’d both be at. And I’m so glad I did! These are the perfect muffin to have around when you’re at a photo shoot or anywhere where lunch is postponed. These kept me from being crazy-hungry. And really, any recipe…
Three things that make me happy, no matter what, are: Naive Melody by the Talking Heads, Marie Antoinette (the movie!), and pizza of all types; I don’t discriminate. Jake and I used to eat breadsticks on the drive home from picking up our tasty whole wheat pizza from Strawberry Moon bakery. But, sadly, they closed in February. There went our breadstick-eating drives, impulsive brownie-buying, Jake’s Mexican Coke-chugging, and our summer plans to walk and get…
Saturdays are for napping and giant-cookie making. Toasted coconut makes hoodie-wearing, cookie-making, messy-hair days better. After taking that picture I couldn’t remember how much flour I put in the sifter so I had to re-scoop 3 cups worth of whole wheat flour. Whew, talk about a hassle. … ha! This recipe is one that can be thrown together in minutes. It uses cold butter! So you don’t even have to remember to take butter out…
I know. These just look like brown waffles. Don’t be fooled by their snooze-fest outfits, they are: flavorful, crispy-edged, spiced, brown waffles. Cardamom is such a unique spice. It’s warm and almost citrus-y? I don’t know how to explain it, but let me tell you, it’s tasty. Honesty, I’d like to make these again and sandwich cinnamon ice cream in the middle of one, and eat one like a burrito. That’s just me, though. Cardamom…
These cookies are crunchy. Turn the volume up on Law & Order, blare the The Kills. They might drown out people when they’re trying to talk to you. They’re rude like that. Their tastiness though, will make you embrace the crunch. And I haven’t tried it yet, but I know that if you dunk these in milk it’ll be a dreamy after-school-type snack. I had to eat one right out of the oven; I wanted…
We don’t care about being fancy. We do care about pizza and beer. We chatted about an elephant and a dog being best friends; because of this. We ate tasty Cappaletti Soup that had the prettiest scallop-edged noodles in it. We got a small pizza with pepperoni, sausage, and mushrooms. My half was bigger! Then we got really full yet finished our pitcher so the waitress wouldn’t judge us. We’ll probably go back next week…
I wish I had a candle that smelled exactly like this coffee cake. But then again, it’d probably make my stomach growl like the time I had a chocolate chip cookie candle… Basically, this coffee cake is a major childhood favorite. I’m pretty sure my mom’s recipe card still says: Megan’s Favorite Coffee Cake. And there’s good reason. It tastes dreamy and has a crumbly top. So what else matters, really? I guess I’ve got…
Oh, this was an average week. It involved hitting up a bar I’ve never been to with hopes to run into Ryan Gosling, playing pool and missing the ball trying to sink a solid, burger eating, pastel nail polish, pre-dinner napping, and peace outs. Today started out with ice cream for breakfast, so I guess this week is above average after all. How was your week? I hope it was lovely. P.S. Can I just tell…
I’m the luckiest lady to have finally met the hip lovechild of a lemon and a mandarin orange. I had three Meyer lemons and wasn’t about to waste a pinch of zest. And I’ve got these blueberries that are better than I’ve ever had. Elliot agrees. He likes for me to roll them into the living room so he can chase them. I decided to dot the scones with blueberries instead of mixing them in.…