Occasionally, I wonder how different I would be if I had been born into a family of bakers. I wonder if I’d still be baking if I’d learned, as a child, to speak the language of dough. I wonder if the beauty of butter would still fascinate me, or if the magic of eggs would…
Archives for 2015
Chocolate Chile Cake with Chocolate Avocado Buttercream
Due to the fact that the local theater runs a weekly $5 special on tickets, Tuesday has become movie night. S and I like all kinds of movies, but we’ve been into more serious ones lately, beginning with Black Mass a few weeks ago, then The Martian after that, and, most recently: Bridge of Spies….
#TotoroWeek – {Totoro Cronuts/Totoronuts}
When Steph (I am a Food Blog) put out a call for participants for this year’s #TotoroWeek, I could not WAIT to get involved with what she and Lyndsay (Coco Cake Land) were planning!. I watched My Neighbor Totoro over and over as a kid, and it breaks my heart to know that others didn’t…
Engaged – {Bacon Cheddar Grilled Cheese Egg in a Hole}
A few weeks ago, S and I had one of those busy weekends that wasn’t really a weekend at all. We barely saw each other; our time consumed separately by personal commitments that kept us apart well into the early hours of the morning. When I finally saw him on Sunday evening, he suggested that…
Celebration – {Momofuku Milk Bar Birthday Cake}
I remember one year, as a kid, I got all worked up about my birthday. I didn’t have a cellphone or an alarm clock at the time, so the only way to know what time it was from my bed was to switch from Cartoon Network over to TV Guide. Shockingly, this didn’t make it…
Spent – {Strawberry Tarts with Honey Balsamic Goat Cheese}
It’s 4:30 and I’m leaning heavily on the kitchen counter. My skin is radiating heat in regurgitated sunshine, an unglamorous exodus of energy leaving me as I lay halfway sprawled across the formica. There’s no weight left on my feet, and, even still, my left heel feels like it’s going to split. Taking stock of…