A couple weeks ago me and my friends Sarah and Amanda went to an apple orchard near Big Bear in southern California. They had great apple cider, and a TON of different apples. There were samples everywhere and it was pretty amazing to see...

      My roommates and I are throwing a Halloween party, tonight in fact! In honor of the occasion, I made these cute mummy dogs, as well as the monstrous creation of a Spooky Toffee Cake with Dark Chocolate Icing that you can...

    Back home in Portland there’s a little coffee stand on 23rd street that always has this amazing fresh lavender lemonade, and whenever I’m home I always try to make a point to stop there and grab a cup because it is THE...

In the fall of 2007 I studied abroad in Dusseldorf, Germany through my school’s film program. It was an amazing experience and one of my favorite parts of the trip was all of the German food that I got to eat. (Mmmm sauerkraut!) One...

There’s been a massive heat wave this past week here in Culver City, and in response I decided to avoid using the oven at all costs. This was pretty easy to do, (thanks, microwave!), but it still didn’t keep the heat down in the...

I’ve been wanting to share this spiced baked pumpkin with you for a while now, but things have been really hectic on the work front lately. It has been a very long time since I last posted, the reason being that I’ve been very...

    After seeing thisfantastic Plum Tart recipe at Sugarlaws, I decided I needed to make something with plums. Plums bake beautifully, when they’re at high temperatures the heat causes the purple skin to bleed into the yellow flesh and creates this gorgeous magenta...

I based the recipe for this orange almond cake cake off of a Greek recipe on my other blog for Ravani, a syrupy Greek lemon cake. I wanted to make it with orange, though, so I swapped that out and added some almond, too,...

  My absolute favorite dip in the world is guacamole. Not only is it creamily delicious, it’s actually pretty good for you. Yes, avocados have a high fat content, but they’re the good fats that make your skin springy and soft! Jeremy, (my live-in...

      If there was one TV show that could summarize my childhood in its entirety, it would be Rugrats. I absolutely loved that show as a kid, probably because it was so darn relatable with all the wild imaginary adventures the kids...

S’mores are a fantastically simple dessert that deserve to be consumed outside of a campfire setting. They’re also very versatile in so far as the astounding amount of add-ins you can toss on them. I decided to add some homemade dulce de leche to...

I’d recently been craving a berry-flavored cake, and since kuchen is like a cake with berries and crumbles on top, I decided to try my hand at a blueberry kuchen and, darn it, it turned out so good that I ended up eating most...