I have friends coming over for a birthday dinner tonight. I'm making this for the birthday cake. In fact, I should get started on...

This would be fantastic in my kitchen!

Well, I think that my very favorite tea to drink is chai, so some cardamom cookies may be my very most favorite thing to eat with the tea. The flavors go so well together.

Often times it seems like a lot of things that are made on the stovetop initially can be reheated/kept warm in the oven. So I may saute some veggies somewhat early in the prep and then stick them ...

Microwave some frozen blueberries until they burst. Add a sliced nectarine. Top with some whipped cream or (better!) some vanilla ice cream.

Tonight, I'm making the confit byaldi recipe from last year's NYT (the one that Thomas Keller used that became the inspiration for the ratatouille in Ratatouille). I'm going to serve it with some ...

I made some butter yesterday! I started out doing it by hand with a whisk, but then wimped out and brought out the hand mixer to finish the job. But very easy! And that first taste, on a slice o...

This has been a topic of many dinner conversations between my friends and I, with the proposals getting more and more outlandish the more wine we consume. :) I'm pretty convinced tha...

Thanks for the wine tips! Bonny Doon's dry riesling is a favorite of mine. You can find it quite cheap (definitely under $10 and sometimes under $7 during a good sale) in the grocery stores and i...

I agree with Rosie! I love all of these smells filling up my house...it makes it seem, I don't know, more like a home.

I'm having lots of folks over for a weekend fiesta! I'm making homemade tortilla soup and calabacitas as well as some homemade tortilla chips, horchata, and, of course, margaritas. Others are pit...

I don't know if it's just me, but I can't click through to the slide show on any of these entries. :(

Wednesdays are my 'treat myself to lunch' days. Today will probably be Kung Pao chicken as I've had a craving for it for a couple of weeks now and one thing about cravings like this is that they d...

I and most of my friends are grad students who live on what can only be considered a very tight budget. Instead of spending a lot of money going out to eat we try to make it a habit to go over to ...

I don't tend to cook food in the microwave, but that's because I love the aesthetic of cooking on the stove top. I like the boiling and bubbling and the process by which I cook my food (season, ta...

I love this sentiment! We live our lives in the houses and apartments that we decorate and so I think that how those houses and apartments look should be a reflection of those lives. Instead of b...

Oooh...someone already said this, but the malted milk ball eggs. I remember as a kid going for my little bag of malted milk ball eggs as soon as my mom let me (no candy before 11...being a kid is ...

Oh! And I have an apple pie baking away in the oven as I type, in celebration of Pi Day. :) Yay! to excuses to make and eat pie!

I'm having eggs florentine for dinner tonight. Maybe some hash browns with it. I plan on making some tortilla soup for dinner either tomorrow or Sunday night, depending upon how lazy my Saturday ...

I'd love to cook some steel cut oatmeal. Maybe slice and apple or two and let it simmer away with the oatmeal so that, in the end, you get deliciously soft apple oatmeal. The perfect way to spend...