I know I recently complained about the New Year Resolutioners that crowd my gym every January, and I’m glad to finally be able to say it’s become a little more normal. Now that I can finally work out relatively in peace, I’ve been trying to …
Oops. The packaging for the tea-themed cookies I made for last year’s Holiday Bake-A-Thon totally slipped my mind. I picked a new design for my holiday cookie boxes, which the Earl Grey Tea Shortbread, Chai Spiced Snickerdoodle, Glazed Lemon Cookies, and Chocolate-Mint (Nightmare Before Christmas) Pinwheel Cookies …
People don’t traditionally associate dessert with Super Bowl food, so I combined two of America’s favorite snacks (the cookie and the potato chip) for this year’s Super Bowl party! I’m proud to say I’ve been getting a little braver with my baking and improvising a …
Alex, Lingie, and I made the trek up to the Pacific Northwest back in December to visit our beloved Andrew. The four of us, being the laid back yet eccentric group that we are, decided that the first bullet point on our itinerary was for …
It is literally too cold to do anything but go from my home to work to home. Anything beyond that requires too many layers of clothing and too much discipline. I did, however, manage to get myself out to play some pick-up basketball last night …
Here’s another update from my Holiday Bake-A-Thon 2012 – I found this recipe on Martha Stewart. I chose these because lemon is a great compliment for tea, though there is no actual tea in these cookies themselves. The cookies themselves were good and really easy to …
Lingie sent me a FANTASTIC link about writing earlier today. Please read it, especially if you write. I was totally inspired to flail my fingers away helplessly across a keyboard after driving 90 minutes in rush hour traffic to a restaurant my mom picked for …
Happy 2013, everyone! Hope everyone had a lot of fun and made lots of mistakes last night! I decorated this cake during another class I took at the Gourmandise School of Sweets and Savories, which is where I took my Intro to Macarons and French …
Sup. April is the best month of the year. Hands down. Everyone knows it. But something happened in early November. Allison was born. Oh, don’t get me wrong April is still the greatest month of the year. Last year Alex and I, along with the beautiful …
I took an intermediate macaron class as a follow-up to the intro class I took Thanksgiving weekend. In the class, we made three different types of macarons and fillings: pistachio with a lemon curd filling, hazelnut with a chocolate ganache filling and candied crushed hazelnuts, …