My grandmother called herself a pagan, and the way she demonstrated this spiritual identity to herself was by throwing me a Spring party every year. I’m not quite sure how this tradition started, but somewhere along the way she started making black bottom cupcakes, and I still remember munching them with my friends under the…
Archives for March 2009
The Daring Lasagne
OK, let me just say here once and for all that I am one daring kitchen ninja. Over and over I takn the daring baker’s challenge like a good little blogger, and then I make it at the last minute, inevitably and usually when I am about to throw a party. It makes sense right?…
Cupcakes for Spring
My grandmother called herself a pagan, and the way she demonstrated this spiritual identity to herself was by throwing me a Spring party every year. I’m not quite sure how this tradition started, but somewhere along the way she started making black bottom cupcakes, and I still remember munching them with my friends under the…
America Runs on Dunkin
So I must admit that these past few weeks, we’ve been reading quite a bit of Arnie the Doughnut This is a classic and delicious book brought to us by a friends Liz and J a few years ago. It is a fabulous book which will inevitably make your children want to eat doughnuts.Now we…
Golden Brussels Sprouts
Okay, so I wasn’t even going to write about these, because the recipe’s all simple, and it has already been beautifully documented here, but this is what I made tonight, and it might just have been the best thing I’ve ever had. Or almost, I mean I know that’s an odd thing to say about…