My second day of college, our Resident Advisor, Katie, decided we should take a bonding trip to one of the nearby coffee shops. It was there that she introduced me to the wondrous chai latte. One sip and I was hooked, partially because the flavor reminded me so much of pumpkin pie – my absolute [...]
I know. Another chocolate chip cookie recipe? Does the Internet really need that?
Well, yes. My extensive research shows that people never tire of chocolate chip cookie recipes. After all, we’re all trying to find our favorite, the elusive recipe that connects us to that one cookie we had that one time in a place [...]
While I was trying to figure out how to create a fine-for-canning fig-chocolate combination similar to Ficoco, I got sidetracked by brownies. I’m not sure how, but really, it’s only a short hop from chocolate to brownies. Sometimes brownies just can’t be beat when you want chocolate. More than once I’ve sent my husband [...]
As if I wasn’t doing enough, I have this whole Daring Bakers’ thing to keep doing…
The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet.
I was a bit concerned about [...]
It snowed on Friday.
Yep, here in Austin, Texas, the flakes flew for about 15 minutes. Just long enough for half the adults in my office to run outside giggling. Weather is always interesting here, because instead it being part of the normal routine, anything other than 76 and sunny sort of makes people [...]











