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...
I must admit that, although I do try to eat healthy on a regular basis, most of the recipes I post here are fairly fattening, and this recipe is by far the most fattening of them all. But I will tell you one thing,...
I have a confession to make. I love cinnamon rolls, but I am not a huge fan of standard dough-making. Bread is fun because you can put nuts and seeds in it, and cakes and brownies and cookies...
By the time you read this I’ll be in the woods on another foraging adventure. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a bit obsessed with mushrooms, they’re one of my favorite ingredients and I’m very lucky to live in a place where...
Several weeks ago I tried a new snack from Costco called “Cashew Clusters” and became completely obsessed with it. It is amazingly and utterly delicious! They’re these kind of granola chunks with cashews, pumpkin seeds and almonds in them. I decided to try to...
Last week I went home to Portland for a few days, and while I was there my Mom gave me a stack of old recipes she had held onto for years and years. I went through the little hand-written notes and random clippings and...
Late last week I saw that a shipment of blood oranges had come into the supermarket, I’d only had them once before and loved their flavor, so I decided to try and make something with them. Blood oranges in a pastry or dough just...
So, remember last post when I bought a pound of shredded coconut? Well, I wasn’t sure how long coconut lasts before it goes bad, so I just decided to try and use as much of it as possible as soon as possible. Thus, coconut...
On a recent trip to Surfas, (my favorite specialty ingredient supply store), I stumbled across a one pound bag of unsweetened coconut shards. I didn’t purchase them at the time because I didn’t know what I would make with them. They stuck...
Squash is hands-down my favorite vegetable, and my favorite member of the squash family is pumpkin, but it is out of season now so I used my other go-to, which is summer squash. There’s a ton of different ways to use this little vegetable,...
The sweet smell of a rose is one of my favorite scents of all the garden’s flowers, and it’s also one of my favorite flavors. Growing up my family had a large rose garden lining the pathways in our backyard, and walking through it...
