Cooking What I Like With Love
I’m obviously a serious brownie lover. There is just something about that gooey, cakey, chewy, crispy texture that I love. I used to swear by Ruth Reichl’s Art Park Brownies, but they were actually too rich and fudgy not to mention they were insanely labor intensive. The […]
It’s hard to say why you pick a recipe. Sometimes, someone asks you to make a specific thing, because they’re craving it or they had something like it at a restaurant. Sometimes, it’s something you’ve had before and want to find a better way to […]
I’ve been obsessed with tomatoes since I was a kid. I actually once ate so many that I ended up at the doctor, who at first thought I had scarlet fever again because I was all red and itchy. But then he asked what I’d […]
I haven’t posted in awhile because I was celebrating my stepson’s 10th birthday in Virginia. Before I left, I thought about what to make him. He loves a bunch of desserts that I regularly make, but I wanted to surprise him with something special that he’d […]
I’ve worked in restaurants for a long time. Some of them were good and some of them were bad. Most of them had one dish that stood out to me. After college, I lived in Morristown, NJ and worked at a restaurant in the town […]
For Mother’s Day, I tested a couple of different recipe ideas for something special for my mom. She’s pretty awesome. She’s funny, smart, kind, and all the things you’d want in a mom. However, she cannot cook. Like, at all really. It’s not that she’s […]
I tried this recipe because of the movie “Big Night” with Tony Shaloub and Stanley Tucci. In the movie, there is a scene where they make a timbale, which means drum in Italian. It is an over-the-top production with multiple steps and ingredients, anticipated with […]
A friend asked me to bake a dessert for a former co-worker’s birthday. I thought about conversations we’ve had about food (he’s 17 but is really into cooking) and remembered how he said one of his favorite things was the Buckeye candies he makes with […]
I’m obsessed with cereal. If I didn’t limit carbs, I’d pretty much run on Rice Krispies. After having a much-anticipated cereal milk ice cream at Milk Bar, I was disappointed. The ice cream did have a cornflake flavor, but it just fell flat for me. […]
We took the kids to a street fair in Nyack, NY last summer and we had a sample of a Caribbean rum cake from a little stand. We immediately bought three. I’d never had anything like it. Buttery and sweet, moist but fluffy. We could […]