This is one of my favourite Barefoot Contessa Recipes, adapted to a personal pan size for those “emergency brownie days”. Emergency brownie days in my books are usually also accompanied by vodka, if it happens to be available in the fridge. That’s how I concluded brownies were probably, most likely, created by stressed out women [...]
TAGS: brownies • chocolate
After reading Alexis Stewart’s post on making this Heaven and Hell Cake from Saveur.com, I wanted to give it a whirl, too. Since then, I’ve whirled at least three times to get it right. Today, I can finally share something. The reason why it’s called Heaven and Hell Cake is because the cake layers are [...]
TAGS: cake • chocolate • heaven and hell cake • peanut butter
I never used to like pancakes, and was always more of a waffle person. However, these days whenever I decide to eat healthy and cut out refined carbs, I always get this weird craving for pancakes – yummy, dense, carby goodness for breakfast. After making these pancakes, I also think I might’ve just had bad [...]
TAGS: blueberry • breakfast • pancakes
Last Wednesday I got home from work and just wanted to veg. I was agitated, annoyed, and frustrated with everything that’s been happening. To sum up, life at work has been absolutely nutty for the past six weeks, and I have a few things that I am working on outside of work that are adding [...]
TAGS: me • pasta • work
If you’re blissfully unaware of the nerdiness that today inspired, I apologize for ruining this ignorance. Apparently, March 14th is a recognized “holiday” called Pi Day, and yes, people celebrate by having pie at 1:59 (am? pm? undetermined). While I can’t say I’m a big pie person, Alex loves apple pie. So when he pointed [...]
TAGS: Alex • apple pie • pie