We’ll just make a general understatement today and tell you that I am still recovering from this weekend. For some reason I agreed to host both sides of our families for an Easter lunch (and, also, for some reason, I have agreed to let this become a new tradition). Gerrit and I spent all of…
Author: Erin
There’s a lot of magic that goes on in the kitchen. Stirring together sauces until they are delicious and creamy. Browning chicken to that perfect crispiness. The endless cookie possibilities you can get by stirring the same things together over and over; butter, sugar, eggs, flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder. Baking custards into perfection….
There are a lot of things that I love about having this food blog. I love that it forces me to be constantly finding new recipes. I love the way that it makes me try new things, dishes and desserts and breakfasts that I might not otherwise feel tempted to attempt. I love the it…
This recipe has now been updated. I’ve started and deleted this post about five times in the last two days, not because I don’t want to tell you how wonderful these mushrooms are, but because, well, it’s Spring. And I am, well, feverish. Feverish to grill out and have friends and family over. Feverish to…
When I was a kid regular old birthday cake never particularly appealed to me. I would enjoy the token piece, but really I preferred to just have a bowl of the ice cream. So I went through phases of different types of birthday cakes/desserts that strayed a bit from the traditional frosted yellow cake. There…