Food & Beverage

Mocha Cookie Cake

Food & Beverage

i cheated on valentines day. no no not on joe duh, on my diet. but just a little bit. and just a little bit for a little bit of this cake. this cake…. is not like any other cake. this cake is like pure heaven. it’s everything i want in a cake. not as rich […]

brown butter butternut pasta

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Nothing sounds better on a chilly fall night than brown butter butternut pasta. It’s rich, creamy and best of all simple. I created this dish when we needed a quick dinner for two. Trust me browning the butter is worth the extra step and brings out the deep nutty flavor of the vegetables. To gather […]

zucchini ricotta sandwich

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There is nothing better than finishing my first round at a flea market and sitting on the tailgate of my truck with my picnic lunch before heading back in for round two to make sure that there is not anything that I missed. One of my favorite go to sandwiches is this zucchini ricotta sandwich. […]

made from scratch confetti cake trifle

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so this confetti cake was a very happy accident. i was trying to make a beautiful layer cake from my momofoku milk bar cookbook until i set the pan down too hard and the cake crumbled. sigh. face palm. so i thought wwpd. what would phyllis (my grandma) do. she would make lemonade from lemons…. […]

Baking Champagne Cake

How to make a Champagne Cake

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I have been trying to squeeze in time to work on my photography skill and have been taking the time to go back and rephotograph some of the older recipes on this blog. Test them out and see how they still hold up. I have been craving  a nice fluffy cake lately so it seemed […]