When I got my ice cream maker a few months ago, I knew this was going to have to be one of the first ice creams I tried. I thought throwing a bunch of mint in a vanilla ice cream base would bring me the technicolor Baskin Robbins cone of my youth and that it […]
I feel like I could write a book, or at the very least a small-but-wordy pamphlet, on how the concept behind this recipe has evolved, altered, metamorphosed, doubled back and landed straight into a heap of tiramisu. It certainly wasn’t supposed to. The idea was simple enough (it always is): I set out to twist […]
One of my inspirations for starting a retro-themed blog was the gigantic, exploding green binder that lives on a shelf in my parents kitchen. It’s stuffed with a collection of crinkled papers from the past, recipes cut from magazines and newspapers, single leafs torn from tattered cookbooks, the odd school report card or holiday to-do […]
I think I’ve made one million pans of lemon bars. I don’t know quite what it is about them but people who love them reallllly love them and request them often. I love them too except I can really only eat them sparingly after an incident we will just refer to as the back-of-the-car, leftover […]
I’m keeping things short and sweet this week because I am in full-swing Easter prep mode. As a side note, how did this happen? I swear I was wrapping Christmas presents only yesterday and now I’m up to my neck in cellophane grass. I’m not complaining though, this winter has nearly killed me. I guess […]
