I think that I have been so wrapped up in unpacking and painting and taking time to sometimes tell you about the food I make, that I have neglected to actually tell you about our new house. First of all it is amazing. So amazing in fact that we just may never move. But not…
Category: bars and brownies
In case you haven’t figured it out by now, there are few things I am obsessed with more than peanut butter. Actually there is probably nothing I am more obsessed with in the food realm…aside from perhaps chocolate. And steak. And in the non-food realm, aside from the generalizations of family that everyone will give…
I have a new fascination with finding classic recipes for classic desserts that we all too often buy in boxed mixes which, while fine and convenient, also lacks that sense of knowing what we’re eating. Not that I dislike brownies mixes. On the contrary, I don’t particularly love most homemade brownies precisely because they don’t…
The main reason I wanted to make these is because I was drawn to the name. Even though it has nothing to do with salt, it made me think of the Ocoee River and how much I miss the mountains and going rafting in the summers. Also, these involve chocolate and peanut butter, so…there was…
This past weekend Gerrit and I ventured to the bustling metropolis of Boerne, Texas to visit some of his extended family. It was a quiet weekend of relaxing and reading and sitting on the front porch in the almost cool mornings. It was nice to be without our computers. Although that part was an accident,…