Jackpot Ultra Race Report, Cookies, and Bloody Stumps

April 29, 2021

(Warning: This is a total bait-and-switch post. If you are squeamish, turn back now.) Getting back to “normal” has been harder than I thought. I guess I believed that once we were vaccinated, the world would just go back to the way it was before. But so much has happened in the last year, and […]

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Blueberry Crumble Bars

March 3, 2021

Shhh…don’t tell anyone, but I’ve never been a fruit pie lover. Well, except those cardboard-esque Hostess apple pies I used to get as a kid. And the deep fried pies from Whataburger. Okay, let me rephrase: I’ve never really liked fruit pies that would be considered “good” by anyone over the age of nine. But […]

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Instant Pot Risotto with Parmesan and Peas – A Thames Path Adventure

November 30, 2020

A couple of years ago, Tim and I ran the length of the Thames River. It was one of the most magical adventures I’d ever been on. Whenever given the choice of vacations, I always prefer an active one. I’m not much for museums or shopping, and really only enjoy sightseeing when it is done […]

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Basic Brown Butter Vanilla Pound Cake

November 16, 2020

Calling something “basic” these days is seen as an insult. Pejoratively, basic connotes “bland,” “uninteresting,” or, at its worst, “unworthy”. But the reality is, without “basics” nothing else could flourish and become unique and interesting. We need to understand basic techniques and foundations, both as humans, and as bakers, before we can go off in […]

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No Hard Feelings, Pizza

September 23, 2020

  I don’t LOVE pizza. At least not in the way other people do. In fact, when Tim and I were first married, it drove him crazy that I was not a pizza person. Pizza was cheap, easy, and filling – a perfect triumvirate for two starving law students. But I had not grown up […]

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Lemon Meringue Bars (or, Bribing My Baby)

July 18, 2020

I don’t love lemon meringue pie, but Grant was about to head back to D.C. after being stuck with us for three months, and he loves lemon meringue. So, there it is. Poor guy, the courthouse was evacuated, and his judge pushed all her clerks to get out of D.C., and even though he was […]

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