When I was a kid my parents had a birthday party cake book in their cookbook collection that I was slightly obsessed with. The book was very 90s in style with tons of cut-out cakes made to look like objects such as a telephone, a castle, and oddly, a bus. I poured over the pages […]
Just over three years ago, in November of 2018, I began working on my Rosehill Cottage Gingerbread House. It was not my first gingerbread house ever, but it was definitely the first of its scale and scope. It took me about a month and a half to complete, and almost immediately after I finished it […]
I’ve got the back to school bug. I haven’t been a student in what feels like forever and yet come every September, I get this sudden onset of half-giddy, half-nervous energy like I’m about to have to pick out a killer first day of school outfit and find my locker. I’ve said it before, this […]
In the 1998 facsimile edition of Betty Crocker’s Picture Book (originally released in 1950), there is a picture of this pie above the caption: Fresh Cherry Pie Gay with hatchets and a garland of cherry leaves. “Festive ending to a Washington’s birthday dinner. For other occasions, use cutouts of pumpkins for hallowe’en, bells for New Year’s […]
Whenever I’m tasked with planning a menu, I always look for recipes that make sense in the larger context of the meal. I want flavors that complement each other, first and foremost, but they also have to be practical to prepare and seasonally appropriate. I also try to contrast the heaviness and lightness of foods […]
La Retro Recipe 