I’ve always been a lover of sushi, this is in part due to the abundance of fresh salmon in the Pacific northwest and the large number of Japanese immigrants, which resulted in an abundance of really good and really affordable sushi places around the...

I’ve spent the past few weeks going through everything in our house in a bit of a reverse fall-cleaning frenzy. It all began when we came home with the wedding presents and I realized we had absolutely nowhere to put them, and since we...

Ah, September. For most of the country, this means the beginning of fall. But in my little North Hollywood bungalow it means a miniature heat wave, with temperatures creeping past 100 degrees outside. While the warmth has been less than pleasant for myself, Jeremy,...

  When I returned from my trip to Saint Paul & Minneapolis, I knew I wanted to make something similarly refreshing with their new organic gin, and decided to take advantage of the our local summer peaches. I used the peaches to make a...

  Before I dive into talking about honey at length, I just wanted to say that our wedding brought me more joy than I could have ever hoped for. My only regret was not being able to spend more time in Oregon with my...

  At the present moment, I’m nestled up in my parents’ house up in Oregon getting all the wedding prep in order and anxiously awaiting Sunday afternoon, when I’ll become a Mrs. It’s crazy to think back to when I first got engaged a...

I’ll be honest with you friends, this cake was born out of my own laziness. A couple weeks ago I desperately wanted a cake, but I only had enough butter in the cupboard for frosting and not for the cake itself. Having no desire...

Jeremy has been out of town the past couple days, and normally that means I get lazy with cooking and treat myself to In n’ Out and street burritos (much less sketchy than they sound), but with the wedding less than two weeks away...

I’ve been on a bit of a cake kick lately, so much so that I ended up making two cakes in one weekend just so I could eat all the cake. My brain on cake is pretty much exactly like this. Yep, dangerous times....

Sometimes in the summer I find myself craving the nutty flavors of fall, slightly over-excited for the next season on the docket. But the heat…oh the heat. It makes baking things like warm nutty pies a bit of a challenge, especially when you live...

  Sometimes when the stress of the world gets to be too much, you just want to curl up with a nice hunk of cheese on the sofa and spend an hour watching Frasier to thaw out your brain…That’s exactly what I’ve been doing...

About a month ago, I got a special request from Jeremy’s mom to come up with a recipe for a watermelon cake so she could make it for his younger brother’s birthday (he is a watermelon enthusiast). It was a tricky challenge, since watermelon...