carrot cake baked oatmeal cups

carrot cake baked oatmeal cups

It was a Saturday morning, I had the house to myself and it was raining. Any of these things alone might elicit the need to bake, but collectively they left no doubt. I pulled up a recipe on Shape magazine’s website that had caught my eye earlier in the week,...
crabless cakes with hearts of palm & corn

crabless cakes with hearts of palm & corn

I know this is a food blog and all, and generally speaking everything posted here should (and does) taste good, but I have to say, these crab less cakes are one of the best things I’ve made in a long time. Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been working...
a bitty bit of Bittman

a bitty bit of Bittman

If there’s my one go-to cookbook, it’s How to Cook Everything. As you might have concurred by the name, it’s a book filled with solutions for almost, well, everything. The problem with naming a cookbook, or any book for that matter, with this kind of...
cranberry walnut banana bread

cranberry walnut banana bread

It’s the kind of day that makes me want to bake something. It’s cloudy and windy and I’m stuck inside so why not fill the house with warm, yummy smells? This is a slippery slope though fueled by visions of comfort food – macaroni and cheese, cakes,...
day 8 – starting week two

day 8 – starting week two

I can’t believe it’s been a whole week already on the Bon Appétit Food Lover’s Cleanse but in a way it seems like a really long time too when I consider all the great tasting meals I’ve had in the past seven days. There’s been something...