Getting in the Holiday Mood
As soon as all of the Junior Mints are consumed and my go-to monarch butterfly costume wings are stashed safely back into the closet my mind is finally free to...
Black Pepper-Cheddar-Chive Drop Biscuits
I love a good hot biscuit covered in melted butter. Don’t you? What I dislike is rolling out dough, making a mess, and then having the whole concoction fall flat...
Perfect Pumpkin Cookies
It’s pumpkin time again! A few weekends ago CK and I traveled to Connecticut for a joint October Kelly family birthday celebration. CK’s dad requested that I bring something pumpkin...
The Geometry of Pasta and Eggplant Lasagne
When I first received a copy of The Geometry of Pasta in the mail (thank you kind publisher!) my initial reaction was a bit less than impressed. For me, cookbooks...
Mint Julep Cupcakes
The first thing that came to mind as I topped these cupcakes with their frizzy hats of mint was that I’d obviously just baked an edible version of the Truffula...
Kitchen Little in Mystic, CT
On Monday morning I awoke to the official end of summer curled up in a cozy twin bed in CK’s grandparent’s house in Niantic, Connecticut. The air in the bedroom...
Flour’s Famous Banana Bread
A troupe of old gnarly bananas have commandeered my freezer. The bundles of blackened fruit take up a rather large amount of valuable real estate and the peas and chicken...
Bay Scallop Gratin
Have we discussed “sexy ugly” before? If you know where that term comes from (without googling it) than we are probably destined to be best friends. But since I don’t...