Recipe from Alton Brown. They are amazing! If you like dark chocolate you MUST make these! I made them for our SB50 party and then again for Easter. Comments include “they are sooo dark” (they look almost blue!), “you can only eat just one” (they are so rich) and my personal fav “those brownies are insane!”…
Category: Adapted recipe
vodka penne
It seems that when I’m really craving vodka penne I have to make it, as I can never seem to find it on any restaurant menu anymore. I needed to bone up on how to make it (I made it I think 4 years ago last time and it was amazing!), so I referred to…
let a bundt cake do the talkin’
Recipe inspiration came from “Two Peas and Their Pod” when researching homemade chocolate bundt cake and yes the commercial jingle I’ve know since childhood inspired me as well (“a bundt cake says nice going and I’ve been thinking of you, but more than any other thing, a bundt cake says I love you!”). I adapted my…
bone stock does your body good
I’d been hearing the raves of the benefits of bone broth lately (google it there’s a lot out there on the topic!) and since my NY16 focus is to do my best to eat more healthy and fresh, I thought this was a good way to get that commitment into reality. Not hard at all-…
with all the trimmings christmas dinner – lovely leg of lamb, scalloped potatoes, acorn squash, green mint jelly and cranberry sauce
This holiday was super special for a couple of reasons. It was Michael and I’s first Christmas together in our home, the first time we would cook a holiday meal in the new kitchen (we are in love with it!), my mom was visiting in from Ohio to be with us, and Michael’s mom was…
orange liqueur olive oil pound cake with pomegranate glaze
The main inspiration on this one was a special gift for a dear friend’s birthday- the ideas started flowing remembering a rum cake the previous week at another good friend’s party (could I do it without a bundt cake pan and with another liqueur and get similar results?), having access to a very old bottle…
portspiration- blue cheese and fig salad, 30 year aged steaks and mascarpone tarte
A little less than a year ago, Michael took me to Paso Robles for a weekend for a lovely 4th of July weekend and also a celebration of my birthday, as I had been out of country for my birthday in both Germany and the UK for my new job at the time. Paso Robles is a…
thanksgiving roll back- the bird, glaze and gravy – from scratch
Getting Bird Ready I’ve been waiting to post this one for so long! And by far it’s one of those moments in the kitchen I will never forget. One because my mom was in town to spend some quality time with me. Being the oldest of five kids alone time with mom is always special, and…
Summer BBQ’s beckon some spice. Cornbread that will have you craving for another slice…
Wow it’s been awhile since I’ve posted on here… so while I am collecting ideas on my next postings, this one was easy enough to do. Since my last posting I got a new job at a company I love and did some traveling to Florida, UK and Germany (for the first time). Sadly I…
Heritage Love- the kolache project- just like gram’s, kinda. Part 1= overview and boozy fruit filling.
I’m super excited as shortly I’m going to embark on what I consider a “heritage” trip to both Poland (Krakow) and Czechoslovakia (Prague and hopefully a few outside cities). This is a bucket-list trip for me and came to pass via a friend traveling for work. Expenses on the low side (minus expensive flight there),…
It’s raining, it’s pouring… so let’s get our soup on
So my mom, after a car accident in January, sent me this basket with a totally adorable soup kit. Soups are definitely my thing and I usually make them from scratch. But today it’s raining and I don’t want to go to the store, and I have some chicken, so I thought, let’s get that…
Lemon sour cream almond pancakes/waffles
I woke up this morning thinking it’s a rainy day, perfect reason to cook. Craving something sweet and hearty. Going through in my mind what was in the kitchen, I started googling ideas, was my idea possible. Lemons (lots of them) sourcream and almonds. I’d made lemon cottage cheese pancakes before (will post later). So…
