Holy toledo, you’ve been invited to a group thing or a party or a whatever last minute during the holiday season. What can you bring?! Or oh boy, you’ve got a crowd for a holiday shindig, one pie won’t cut it. And with the plates and the utensils and the stuff and the junk …..yikes. […]
Ah. Ah ha. The obligatory Pumpkin Pie. But in this case, this pie, this pie is anything but obligatory. Aaaand I know. Alllllll the other folks out there claiming to have the best recipe, so many….this is the one you should be making though. I am, ahem, not a pumpkin fan. “So wait,” you […]
It’s funny, starting this blog, rarities like buttermilk and heavy cream and various flours and heaps of chocolate and etcetera and etcetera are now on permanent standby, at the ready for drop-of-the-hat baking. Which is generally my M.O. Life is hard, yup, and poor Mike suffers so. However, things like cream cheese are not, oddly […]
Let us not forget our furry four-legged barrels of fun this pumpkin season, shall we? It’s Pumpkin & Peanut Butter Pupcakes! Yay! Yes, going for a non-bipedal treat today. You could eat these yourself though if you wanted to. Finn, our dopey nutcase, came into our lives right near exactly four years ago at a […]
Ya know, one of the bestest things about this spiffy baking blog of ours is that I finally have an excuse to rip-roar through the myriad of goodies I have always wanted to bake but never had a chance to. Now I do. Woot! So thank you! Thank you for being here! Then, eeerrrrtttt, I […]
Hey, here’s a hot baking tip for ya (is that a pun?): just because a recipe is maybe miswritten or isn’t written to your liking or is incomplete or ingredients or instructions lead you awry, doesn’t mean you can’t bake. I hear you scoffing. And I mean no offense there, recipe writers. Don’t give […]
There are generally only two seasons in Chicago: sunny and gray. Construction and winter. We’re still somehow in construction despite the changing thermometer readings and the roadways are getting worse rather than better but at the same time, we’ve far too quickly switched to gray. As it goes here. This is a long way to […]
Growing up, I was one heck of a lucky kid to go on oodles of road trips with the family, all across the country. There are only a scant few states we didn’t visit but for the most part, we hit the vast majority of the continental U.S. My brother doesn’t remember much of any […]
I must admit, I’m a wee loathe to give this one up. But it’s sooo good, I think the world should enjoy the yumminess that is my Grandma’s Honey Cake. Before we roll along though, did you see Jen’s Lazy Peach Crisp-Cobbler? Holy moly, Mike has shot me fifty+ stinky side eyes of the make-this-now […]
Hey, it’s block party season in Chicago! Woot! This will make sense, hang on. Truthfully, I was cloooose to sharing a chocolate goodie with you and no doubt we’re gonna be sharing A LOT of chocolate goodies with you and Jen shared her awesomely fun Best Damn Chocolate Cake last week so I thought I’d […]
