S'mores Cookies

Graham cracker cookies, marshmellow topping, and chocolate glaze = S’mores cookies! They were really good, but they were messy to make and didn’t taste exactly like “s’mores”, per se.

The cookies alone are WAAAAY good enough to make again, even without the chocolate and marshmellow. 

 

Curry and Polenta

Two really great dishes I made for myself recently.

Yam Chai Muffins

I followed Mickey’s muffin mix recipe for this. Mick, you forgot to say when to add the vanilla. Not that I couldn’t figure it out, I just forgot to.

 

Raspberry Bavarian Cream

For a cool, creamy, summer treat, may I recommend a bavarian cream?

Peanut Butter Chocolate"Tag-Alongs"

Girl Scouts ain't got nothing on me, fool. Guarantee these are way better than any box of $4.99 cookies you'll buy outside Ralph's.

Strawberry Shortcake

Mickey and I collaborated on this layer cake for Haley's birthday! It was so yummy.

We used this recipe for the cake. It was PERFECT.

Chicken pot pie

Some of my friends were over the other day and I made them Chicken Pot Pie, because they had never had it and I love making it. It was delicious!

Lemon Sugar Cookies with Honey Buttercream

These were gone fast.

I decided to make lemon sugar cookies (using a lemon from my new lemon tree!) and I was gonna sandwich them with vanilla buttercream, when I got the brilliant idea to add honey to the frosting. SO GOOD.

Marble Cake

I recently went to Florida with my family to visit my Grandma, Aunt, and Uncle. While we were there, my Grandma showed me how to make her famous marble cake.

 

Brioche

I couldn't resist the sound of a buttery, rich, and delicious home-baked loaf of bread. Now that I've begun bringing peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches to work, having something a bit fresher and more wholesome* than Wonder bread sounded great.



*wholesome used here to indicate extreme amounts of butter.

Hollandaise Sauce

While I waited for my bread to bake, I decided to try my hand at Hollandaise Sauce. 

 

Chocolate Banana Bread

This recipe originally was for Nutella Bread, but I didn't have enough nutella. What I DID have was THIS:

No way would I eat this in any other context... but in this bread it turned out BOMB.COM.

Whoopie Pies

WHOA!

These are good.

I made whoopie pies. Salty chocolate cookies. Cream cheese frosting. Classic delicious.

Fruit Tart

Fruit Tart!

Blueberry ginger muffins

A friend of mine had a tea party on Saturday. Not wanting to show up empty-handed, I baked a batch of blueberry ginger muffins using a recipe I got for free at Ralphs.

These muffins are so tasty. There's just a hint of ginger that bounces around while the rest of your mouth focuses on the tartness of the blueberries and the soft, sweet, warm bread of the muffin. Some may be opposed to the flavor of ginger with fruit, but my fellow tea partiers and I found it to be a perfect combination.

Quinoa by Ginoa

I was recently introduced to what some claim to be a legendary Incan miracle food; quinoa (or as Mickey calls it, "living alien pod food").

Christmas Cooking

This Christmas I decided to make a lot of Italian food and watch the Godfather.