Posted in Baked Goods on Jun 14th, 2010
Let me explain. On Saturday, I took the GRE. I studied really hard (hence the blogging mini-break). And, I’m happy to say that I did pretty well. Well enough to have the GRE disappear — forever — from my life. Never again will I have to compare quantities that may or may not possibly be [...]
Posted in Baked Goods, Recipes on May 17th, 2010
Hello everyone! I feel terrible that it’s been an entire week since I’ve posted, but I have a really good story to explain that. Ready? It begins like this: I forgot. And it ends like this: The End. Great! I’m such an entertaining writer. Patting myself on the back as we speak Ok yes… that [...]
Posted in Baked Goods, Recipes on May 3rd, 2010
The last installment of our series on Puerto Rican food from my friend Courtney in Puerto Rico! Here in Puerto Rico the most common sweet bread is called Mallorca, a sweet light pastry in the shape of a little round coil. You can find this pastry pretty much anywhere here, but one of the places [...]
Posted in Baked Goods, Recipes on Apr 29th, 2010
The second (and last?) installment of a (very short?) series on no-bake desserts. These peanut butter and cocoa oatmeal cookie balls have a special place in my heart, because they were one of the first desserts I ever made in our Chicago apartment. It was last summer, when Sean had just moved in to our [...]
Posted in Baked Goods, Recipes on Apr 23rd, 2010
This post has been composing itself (in my head) since Monday — ya’ll might want to buckle your seat belts, because this is one of those rare occasions in which I know exactly what needs to be said here. And I’m sorry to say that the central point of this post will be this phrase, [...]