Shrimp Scampi
Restaurant Quality Shrimp Scampi at Home Seafood is my favorite food. I’m not sure I have ever eaten a seafood dish I didn’t like. As a kid, I would eat some fairly terrible seafood TV dinner on Friday night and I could not wait! In …
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Lemon Olive Oil Ricotta Cake
Dreaming of Lemon Olive Oil Ricotta Cake I think about cake a lot. Not necessarily eating it. Baking it. I love to think up new styles and flavors and imagine what works well together. The other night I was in bed stress watching a DVRed …
Pear Tarts
An Accidental Dessert: Pear Tarts The other day I poached some pears. I was trying to recreate a savory tart – pears with cheese – that I saw on the internet. The tart was not a big success. It was fine but it had a …
Thyme Roasted Sweet Potatoes
A Delicious Winter Side Dish: Thyme Roast Sweet Potatoes Like a lot of people, I’m not a perfect eater. I would describe myself as healthy-ish. One of the big advantages of cooking pretty much all of our food myself, though, is that we are able …
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Old Fashioned Baking: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies I am often torn between wanting to bake “fancy” things and wanting to bake comfort foods from my childhood. Fancy things include macarons, French pastries, croissants. Comfort foods include brownies, layer cakes, and cookies – the old-fashioned kind like …
Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies
Cozy Up to Winter with Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies I always think it’s kind of weird the way people put up their holiday decorations the day after Halloween and then take them down the day after Christmas. This is the hard part of the year, …
Super Fudgy Brownies
Cooking Math: Chocolate & Chocolate = Super Fudgy Brownies The first thing I ever learned to bake were brownies from a box. I mixed the powder together with water, eggs, and oil, straining my super weak, skinny arms with endless stirring. Then I spread the …
Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes
Summer Produce: Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes The end of summer – and my vacation – is rapidly approaching. I can’t believe I am already going back to school on Monday! One thing that isn’t ending, though, is a supply of farm fresh produce. Yesterday a …
Shrimp Fried Rice
Fake Takeout: Shrimp Fried Rice I don’t like to go out. If the pandemic taught me anything, it’s just how much I love staying home. While other people were discovering cooking and baking and crafts like they had just been invented, I was able to …
Mammoth Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mammoth Chocolate Chip Cookies: The Cure for What Ails You Do you know someone who has to wake up really early for work or school? I bet they never stop talking about it. I would know; I’m that person. To know me is to have …
