I’ve done a little bit of baking lately, like these carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. I really wanted to try out the frosting tips I bought.
The Meyer Lemon Fairy paid me a visit, so I made lemon muffins. mmmm… lemon is the best.
Posts under ‘yummy’
“This freedom of choice in the USA drives everybody crazy”
A rainbow of sweeteners from brunch at Bottega Louie.
Avocado Ice Cream
Several years ago, we visited the California Avocado Festival in Carpenteria. I tasted some avocado ice cream and was delighted with it, but had since completely forgotten about it. A couple of weeks ago I was trying to decide what to make with the large bag of avocados I had bought from the market downstairs [...]
Broken Glass Jello
For the last visit with my Finnish nephews I decided to bring Broken Glass Jello. I first saw it on JustJenn’s excellent blog, and thought it looked like fun. I went shopping for the ingredients, which are pretty much Jello, Jello, Jello, sweetened condensed milk, and more Jello. When I got to the store, I [...]
BrownieFest 2009, part 1
My Memorial Day weekend plan was to make three different brownie recipes, using recipes from Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, Baked: New Frontiers in Baking, and Martha Stewart’s Cookies. My plan got a derailed by rotten pecans, Rick’s toothache, and my own overwhelming laziness on Monday.
I made the Dorie Greenspan recipe. [...]
