I’ve been spending a lot of time the past couple of months trying to find the right recipe for homemade tomato sauce. Up until a couple of years ago I was always a “sauce in a jar from the grocery store” person. I used to keep a standby jar of whatever sauce happened to be…
Updates, etc… (i.e. I have nothing interesting to say)
So, it’s time for a moment of honesty – you really can’t have a great food blog unless you can take great photos of your food. In this area, I feel like I’m stunted. I have several cameras, and now I’m on a mission to learn how to use them. There’s something so immediately fulfilling…
Something New…
It’s time for something new. I need to get back to writing again. I let the stress of life take me away for a while, but now I realize that the stress only ever goes away when I focus on doing things I enjoy. So onward, blogging! This is, of course, simply a first step…
Out of the flames of disaster… Cherry Almond Granola
(Please Note: This entry will eventually get to Cherry Almond Granola… the title of the entry is not a misnomer). This weekend the results of several recipe tests were somewhat unsuccessful (largely due to my own mistakes – there was nothing inherently flawed in the recipes I was trying). Friday night Kirk and I got…
Kitty Emergency: Conclusion
Well… I have good news to report! The kitties were able to come home with Kirk and I last night 🙂 We called the vet’s office around 3:45 and all signs pointed to the cats being ok to come home. We are going to have to follow-up with our regular vet (now is as good…
Kitty Emergency
This was the weekend of the Kitty Emergency. Kirk and I were hoping to have a nice, relaxing weekend full of take-out food and rented movies (and maybe even a little baking), but it was not in the cards for us. We instead spent our weekend going and back and forth between our apartment and…
Spinach Feta Turkey Burgers
A couple of nights ago I was stumped – – – what the heck should I make for dinner? This is the perennial question that I seem to face at least a couple of times a week. Sometimes I get adventurous and try something new (and sometimes it works out… sometimes it doesn’t…), and other…
Boot Camp!
It’s official. I’m taking the plunge into the land of cakes, doughes, custards, fillings, icings, sauces, desert plating, garnishing, cookies, and cake decorating. That’s right… I’ve signed myself up for a Baking Boot Camp! It’s a 3-day intensive baking course offered by The Chopping Block, a cooking school here in Chicago that caters to (haha……
Paris Trip
Kirk and I just recently got back from our trip to Paris. It was so nice to let go of the stress of daily life (working, cooking, cleaning, etc…) and just have fun and explore a different place… a place drastically different from Chicago. We had a very full itinerary while we there, which included:…
Tiramisu
As promised in one of my last posts, I wanted to share the recipe for the Tiramisu I made as dessert for the “meeting of the parents” a couple of weeks ago. The “meeting of the parents”, and my parent’s visit more generally, went really well. As I mentioned in one of my previous posts,…
Twizzling Whimsies 