Let’s talk about pantries. This is apparently a pretty important topic for us homemakers. Oh Joy! just did a post on easy hors d’oeuvres for spontaneous entertaining that mentioned that she never has stuff on hand for guests. May Richer Fuller Be just reorganized her pantry. With spring on the immediate horizon, organization and easy, casualRead more
Last weekend I made marshmallows. It started as these things usually start – with Pinterest. I found this pin for bourbon-flavored marshmallows, and upon discovering that I had all the ingredients to make said marshmallows, five hours later we were eating marshmallows. There’s only one problem: we don’t really like marshmallows. I mean, we do,Read more
My wife’s favorite restaurant was the Daily Grill in Tyson’s II Galleria. I say “favorite” because it not only served genuine California cuisine like sourdough bread and fresh Cobb salad, but had a bartender who was a wizard at mixing Sidecars just the way Ali loves them. I say “was” because the property managers atRead more
As you might have noticed, I bake a lot. And I mean a lot. Between my business baking dog treats and all my little personal projects, I bake something nearly every day. So when my stupid cheapo rolling pin started to leak water on my dough (probably from being immersed, which granted you’re not supposedRead more
Tonight I went to my first ever cookie exchange. I know, how have I never never been to a cookie exchange? Anyway, a crafting group I belong to decided to host one and so I felt some pressure to step up my packaging game a little. I figured a crafting group would expect better than just aRead more
I was cruising Pinterest a few weeks ago while Doug was sitting next to me on the sofa. When I came to this Salted Caramel Six Layer Chocolate Cake, he said, “Um, could that be my birthday cake?” Why of course, darling! So last week I acquired some delicious semi-sweet Scharffenberger chocolate, a whole heck of aRead more
I wasn’t even going to blog this recipe for pumpkin cookies with brown butter frosting. I’d seen it repeated over and over by different bloggers on my blog feeds and on Pinterest and so I was just going to make the cookies I needed for a church function tonight and go on about my day. ThenRead more
Roasted chicken is proof of God’s love for us. Or, well, Southerners anyway. Go here. That’s all. This is a post from Pies and Puggles. Republishing this article in full or in part is a violation of copyright law. And it isn’t nice. © 2010-2013, all rights reserved.
I’m not obsessed with pizza. I swear. It’s just that I always have frozen pizza dough because I make it up in batches of six balls of dough at a time from this recipe, which I love. This last time I made the recipe though, my local Wegmans was out of pizza dough flour againRead more
I have a confession to make. I’m an obsessive baker. Once, in college, I insisted on making a chocolate hazelnut flourless chocolate cake twice in one night because the first one hadn’t turned out as well as I’d wished. I think that’s the moment my friends discovered that I am, as they say, not right.Read more