Colorful recipes with seasonal food
The toughest part of creating a new recipe is coming up with a name. I am TERRIBLE at naming recipes. I either go with way too much information in the title and it ends up being 4 paragraphs long, or I try to be all clever and completely miss the mark. This time I…
If you ever want to be pushed into coming up with recipes you normally wouldn’t think of then I recommend hosting a Chopped-type contest. You give your participants 2 mystery ingredients that they have to use to create a recipe. I have been hosting a Chopped: Quarantine Edition contest for just over a month now…
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These cookies are big. BIIIIG BIG. I’m not going to lie, they’re also pretty sweet, *shocker* I know… but I’m always surprised when people comment that a cookie recipe is “really sweet”. Okay…. but it’s a cookie soooo… To be fair, I suppose some cookies are not sweet.. like.. healthy cookies… but these are NOT…
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I’ve been on a bit of a donut (doughnut?) bender lately. I’ve had so much fun creating new donut flavors so bear with me, there will be several donut posts coming your way in the next little while. I’m starting with my caramel macchiato recipe because caramel happens to be a little bit of heaven…
I was in Irvine recently for a family vacation, and one of the places I looked forward to going to the most was 85°C, a cafe and bakery chain from Taiwan. Their most popular drink is probably the sea salt coffee, an iced coffee drink with cream and a pinch of sea salt for that…
Ten years ago I paddled in my first dragon boat race. Two years later, I started my own team and named it The Boat for Kids Who Don’t Paddle Good. Every year, before the Boston Dragon Boat Festival, we get together for a potluck and watch Zoolander. Every year, in the official program, our team…
