All my life, I’ve had a really hard time picking favorites. When I was little, people always asked me about my favorite color, favorite food, favorite book etc. All of the other kids seemed to have an immediate response to these questions, while I would just stand there dumbfounded for a few minutes weighing the […]
Author: Erica
lemon raspberry cupcakes
Surprises are funny, you either love ’em or you hate ’em.Scratch that. That’s not true at all. It just sounded like a good hook for this post.Personally, I’m in the middle. Sometimes, I like to be in the know. For example, I set different ringtones for different people. It takes the anxiety out of texting. […]
sex in a pan
Did I catch your attention? Good.This is a sinfully decadent, sinfully easy dessert with a sinfully rewarding response. It’s not the daintiest, nor the prettiest. As a matter of fact, it’s basically a hot mess in a pan. But you know what? Despite it’s frightening appearance, people just can’t keep their hands off of it.I […]
rosemary chicken
“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at ones most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.” My dad just got home from Newport and brought me a little tin box full of family recipes. They’re […]
too much chocolate cake
Cakes are a pain. Literally. Layer cakes are beautiful, rewarding, and… dangerous. I’ll spare you the gruesome details, but a slip up while cutting cake layers sent me to the ER last night. Now I can say that I’m one of the few people who got a laceration while making a birthday cake. Nonetheless, I […]
gooey nutella butter cake
Sometimes things that look awesome aren’t really so great after all. I remember in 1st grade I desperately wanted a retainer. A few of my friends had them. I knew that they came in tons of different colors: pink with glitter, rainbow, even metallic. I would walk around with a paper clip in my mouth […]
recipe showdown: healthy banana bread
This sh!t is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Thank you Gwen Stefani. Whenever I hear Gwen, I am instantly transported back to 4th grade when I went to a very strict religious school. I still vividly remember the first day of school — I got dressed in my rumpled white chapel dress, and penny loafers. When I saw […]
overnight raised waffles
I just wrote about waffles, and I thought I found the one. But then yeast came in the picture, and things got complicated. Last night, Emilia, Veda and I had our annual end-of-season girl’s night out to celebrate the end of the winter track season. I don’t know about you all, but I love traditions. […]
recipe showdown: belgian waffles
It’s humiliating. It’s tragic. It’s the decay of Western civilization…. and I can’t stop watching it. Ever since I heard that little, blond, 4-foot-tall toddler’s famous catchphrase”a dollar makes me holler honey boo boo,” I’ve been in love.She’s hyperactive, uninhibited, and foul-mouthed… and I’m kind of obsessed. But since this is technically a food blog, […]
red velvet cupcakes
Somehow it has become socially acceptable to dislike Valentine’s Day. Some people say that it’s a meaningless marketing scam run by card and chocolate companies. Others try to be witty, saying that we should profess our love every day of the year. You all need to relax. I hate Halloween — but you don’t hear […]