Smoked sea salt makes ribs extra good in the summer, or in the winter when you wish it was summer. It also makes chocolate taste like a bonfire, in a really good way. It’s subtle and tasty. I bet it’d be fun to eat these with wine, since bittersweet chocolate is wine’s BFF. They always talk on the phone about their days. Can you believe I didn’t cut myself chopping all this nonsense? I’m kinda…
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…
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…
Last weekend, my Mom came to visit. She brought me snazzy parfait cups that I totally remember her making blue jell-o in when I was a kid. She even put a gummy shark in there for scary-swimmy-tasty goodness. Talk about awesome. Instead of jell-o, this time, we opted for mousse. And when I found this recipe on the kitchn, I knew it was the one I was dreaming of. It has all of my favorite…
I frosted this cake on my lunch break. I also managed to pump gas, get a few groceries, bring Elliot out twice for backyard-prancing, make a disaster of the kitchen, take photos, give Elliot a strawberry, make two willy-nilly veggie burritos, and then zoom back to work. Get your very own flags here: Guinness Chocolate Cake Flags! Last night, I ate cake before dinner, appetizer-style. Eating dessert first is where it’s at, especially on St. Patrick’s Day Eve.…
Caramel ice cream is the prettiest ice cream of all the ice cream. It’s prettiness was the main reason I wanted an ice cream maker. The combo of this frozen goodness and these cookies is love. That’s what all the silly arrows, asterisks and that heart mean. So after a few pep talks to myself and after reading through the recipe 57 times, I finally felt prepared to tackle all the sugar-melting and caramel-making. Jake…
I can’t resist gray v-neck t-shirts, tasty Bavarian brews, and Poppy-colored nail polish. I can’t resist ankle boots, Ben & Jerry’s Half-Baked ice cream, and I really can’t resist these chocolate malt cupcakes. Did you know that malt powder is a magic ingredient? It makes waffles even better and it sure makes chocolate cupcakes irresistible. I made these for a birthday party. I topped them with little flags so if I wasn’t around people would know…
Oops. I forgot to have anybody take a picture of Jake and me at the brunch party. And Jake was looking super hip and I was wearing tights with hearts on them. And we forgot to get a picture of Jake’s charcuterie tray with garlic sausage and proscuitto and McClure’s pickles. And I forgot to take pictures of these mid-party. They were on the table, on my favorite pink cake stand, behind the daffodils.* These…
These cookies were meant to be. I had exactly one stick of butter plus six tablespoons and I had sugar cookies on my mind. It was a butter miracle. So, I guess now I need to buy more butter. I’m in love with these vintage Valentine cookie cutters. They cut out cookies like it’s the 60’s, like Betty Draper, like they mean it. Rumor has it these cookies taste as if a Keebler elf helped…
I love Nutella. So I’m really glad it has it’s own day. I’m thinking about asking it to be my Valentine this year. Cross your fingers for me! I also love pancakes, and so I’ve been daydreaming about these muffins for weeks. They are especially good topped with Nutella. Or, top them with a Nutella AND a banana slice and get out of town, for real. These are mini, so you can eat them like…