Friends, I have a question for you: when you see a blog post for macaroni and cheese (like this one!) does it A) make you want to try that *specific* macaroni and cheese or B) send you running to the kitchen to make your tried and true favorite mac and cheese? Here is my hunch. [...]
Category Archives: Baking
Sour Cream Banana Bread
September 6, 2010 – 10:59 am
Here is the thing about banana bread: as each recipe gets passed along someone adds a banana. And if they didn’t add a banana, they added more vanilla. Eventually there will be a banana bread recipe that is nothing but bananas and vanilla. I have never been offered a slice of homemade banana bread without [...]
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
August 11, 2010 – 11:19 pm
Tis the season to have more summer squash in your possession then you have friends on Facebook. If you haven’t grown your own bushel, someone has given you one. It’s inescapable. And why would you want to escape it, anyway? Zucchini, patty pan, crookneck — there’s nothing not to be happy about. Did you know [...]
Raspberry Almond Muffins
July 21, 2010 – 5:06 pm
We live in the age of the large muffin. The size of your head muffin. The it-can-take-a-whole-day-to-eat-it muffin. While they definitely offer bulk, they usually don’t offer much else. These mass produced behemoths lack flavor and texture — wholly unsatisfying which is a little surprising since it took two hands to lift. But not all [...]
