I have a particular affinity for baked goods with a crumb topping. There’s nothing like the tender crumb of a muffin, contrasting joyfully against the crunchy, sweet, buttery topping. And when you add fruit like ripe tannic berries and sweet creamy banana to the...

I am slightly obsessed with the animated television series King of the Hill, where Peggy Hill makes frito pie on a frequent basis and brags regularly about the quality of her frito pie recipe. I had never had frito pie, nor did I even...

  I recently made this tart for a Christmas party my friends and I had while I was back home in Oregon for the holidays. I’d never made anything with brown butter before, nor had I ever tried my hand at “browning” butter, but it...

About a year and a half ago I was driving up from Los Angeles to Portland and I stopped in Eugene for the night because my brother attends the University of Oregon there. The next day we skipped breakfast and went out for an...

A few years ago while I was studying abroad in Germany I was lucky enough to get to visit Holland, twice! The first time we went to Amsterdam on a school field trip to attend a media-product-type convention. We stayed there for the weekend...

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...