A cake of another sort…

Tonight I wanted a simple meal that would be entirely filling…and I think I hit it well.
Again, I headed over to the always amazing, always reliable, and always salivate-inducing Smitten Kitchen–but this time it was no browsing…I immediately knew what I wanted: potato pancakes.
Ever since I ordered some Zaftig’s famous potato pancakes last week to [...]

No, it’s not knitting a ‘raspberry beret’…still, I think I love her…

It’s been quite some time since I took to the kitchen and baked. Sure, I’ve experimented quite a bit with regular ol’ meals–but nothing in the way of sweet treats. And for some reason today, while purusing cooking blogs, figured it was high time I hit the mixing bowls and measures.
And wow was it a [...]

Quite “nutty” about this concoction…

Today I made some delicious spicy Thai peanut noodles, and damn if I’m not proud of this fact. I’ve always loved peanut-inspired dishes, and anything involving noodles, really.
This dish is a simple concotion of thick spaghetti, garlic, red bell pepper, baby bok choy, and carrot. I begun by sauteeing some garlic in a dash of [...]

Yup…cheese.

There are some days when I wish I were back on the piggie. One of those days is today. Especially after I stumbled upon To Be Mrs. Marv’s brilliant blog about variations on the delicious classic Grilled Cheese, which boasted a whole host of strange ingredients together betwixt bread with the constant cheese that sounded [...]

I’ll have a few cups of…beer? Cake? Beer? Cake? Oh heck, both?

For some reason, cupcakes and beer seem like an ultimate combination–welp, at least for those who actually like these mini-cakes with fluffy homemade marshmallow topping. And so, I whipped up a batch of these babies last night to take along to Foleys Pub as random party favors…and boy were they a hit.
Not only were the [...]

Nothing chocolate…nothing gained?

For some reason, I had a serious hankering to whip up a new cookie recipe featured in the October issue of Everyday Food by Martha Stewart, which not only has death by chocolate desserts, but delicious looking one pot wonders and yummy talapia which make me drool.
Everyday Food is one of my favorite monthly recipe [...]

It’s never a debate whether these will leave you satisfied…

Yesterday was gray and pouring and generally one akin to a few blues here or there, and you know what the pefect medicine is?
Visiting your sister and experiencing her homemade tortillas. They are truly heaven on earth–and warm right on the tortilla press is just yet another reason to be thankful for existence.
So, in order [...]