“I made pop-tarts today.” That wasn’t a sentence I thought I would say. I made pop-tarts from scratch!

The crust was super easy to make, the longest stretch of ‘work’ was the rolling, measuring and cutting into proper rectangles. But then, the filling was super easy: I just used nutella, jam and a quick cinnamon blend. [...]

It is interesting when you revamp your environment (e.g. going abroad for a year), to see what adjustments we make in our eating and cooking habits.
In Florence, I find myself converting measurements such as kilograms, pints, liters and grams, Celsius. In the states I relied on cups, teaspoons, Fahrenheit, ounces and pounds. I thought in [...]

I figure everyone makes this special treat with leftover pie dough. Am I right?
I grew up with this little treat.
When we were on our snowy, cabin-in-the-woods vacation, I brought two frozen pie crusts. One I used to make quiche; but we were low on eggs so instead of making a second quiche, I made this [...]

Hey mom, why don’t you post on smoothies? My reflex response: because they are so typical in our family I don’t think they count. They couldn’t possibly be interesting to people.
And yet.
We love them and have them almost every day. And they are so easy to make, they evade the rigid parameters of a recipe. [...]

The truth is, you shouldn’t make these.
They aren’t good for you. In fact, not only are they not good for you, they are bad for you.
But if you are at a coffee shop and order the cherry studded scone or the nanaimo bar or that big slice of white chocolate and strawberry cream cake—then you [...]

For a short while I had two blogs, this and another called Brown Bag Blues.
I [unofficially] decommissioned that site so I could focus more on this one. But all is not lost, I plan to occasionally bring you boredom-beating brilliance to cure your brown bag blues. A few of my favorite recipes will find a [...]