Strawberry season might be one of my favorite times of the year. Growing up, this time of year always meant driving back to New Orleans to visit family and, most importantly, heading back to Texas with at least a few flats of fresh, sweet Ponchatoula strawberries. In case you’re saying to yourself, “Ponch-a-what?”, let me…
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Ever since I bought my new donut pan from Sur La Table, I’ve been on a donut kick. The first donuts I made were these blackberry donuts by Preppy Kitchen, a few weeks ago when we were hosting my boyfriend’s cousin + her boyfriend at our place. They were super moist, so easy to make,…
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Fun fact: the first time I ever used yeast (several years ago now) was to make homemade cinnamon rolls. Prior to that, I had thought of yeast as something complicated to work with that would require hours of waiting for it to rise and all the effort of kneading. And while some breads might require…
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Two weekends ago I discovered one of the best new cookie recipes I’ve made in a while: Chocolate Chai Cookies. They’re so good, I would encourage you all to go make a batch ASAP 🙂 These cookies by Two Cups Flour have definitely landed a spot towards the top of my all-time favorite cookies list.…
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Who here loves Nutella? Honestly, I don’t know that I’ve ever met anyone who’s not a fan of Nutella. An old friend of mine didn’t like chocolate, but he liked Nutella. When I was living with my Austrian host family, the little boy – Lukas – would eat Nutella on toast almost every day for…
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As someone who loves to bake, I tend to find myself making my own birthday cakes. Which is totally fine by me 😛 This year for my birthday, my bf and I hosted a party at our place with about 20 friends, and I decided to go all out with two different kinds of cake…
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Dark chocolate. Sea salt. Fudginess. (Are you drooling yet?) Super Bowl Sunday is soon upon us, so it’s time to break out the go-to, tried-and-true party favorites. And these brownies are it. I’ve tried lots of different brownie recipes over the years: there are tons out there! Classic, blondie, with peanut butter, with nuts, with…
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Let’s talk zucchini bread. It comes in quite a few varieties: chocolate chip zucchini bread, zucchini banana bread, lemon zucchini bread, zucchini bread with pineapple… the list goes on and on. Today, I’m bringing you blueberry zucchini bread. Zucchini is one of those great ingredients that you can add to a lot of different baked goods –…
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In an earlier blog post, I wrote about my time in Austria and discovery of the myriad of apricot dishes, especially in late summer. And while it’s not currently stone fruit season in NYC, it is a 3-day weekend and we’re expecting a snowstorm later this afternoon, so I decided to to dig out the…
Read MoreLemons lemons lemons! The past couple days I’ve seen a theme of lemon recipes on my Instagram feed – particularly Meyers lemons – which makes sense since winter is citrus season. So in keeping with this prevailing theme, I bring you: oatmeal lemon white chocolate chip cookies! A spin on a classic, these oatmeal cookies…
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