The Best Homemade Popcorn
It’s time to watch a movie. Any movie will do. The main attraction is the popcorn.
Eat Your Leftovers: Stale Bread
My two favorite things to do with stale bread.
Vodka + Lemonade
The easiest of cocktails.
Cream Cheese Spiderweb Brownies
This is lazy baking at its best.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Finally, after years of failure, I’ve made the tall, dark chocolate cake of my dreams—and its peanut butter filling makes it even yummier.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
August’s Favorite Exception is the perfect after-school snack: make-ahead coconut oatmeal chocolate chip cookies!
Blueberry Pie: July’s Exception
OK, all you Fourth of July barbeque-ers, I give you my favorite exception for July: a super yummy blueberry pie. I was in a debate recently…
New Feature: My Favorite Exceptions
Now that I’m almost 40, eating desserts has an immediate effect on my midsection. So I made a rule. But every good rule about desserts is going to need some major exceptions.
Food Good
I’d like to start posting more often than I do now, which is probably a long shot given that summer has just begun and no babysitting…
Chocolate Chip and Cream Cheese Pumpkin Muffins
Leftover pumpkin? Let me help you out. In college I was friends with a girl named Kim, whom I shall forever remember fondly for two things:…
This Is a Public Service Announcement
This is a public service announcement—not a terribly important one, I grant you, unless you are starting your period, or going through a divorce, or heaven…
A Miracle of a Mexican Martini
“Honey, this drink is a miracle!” I proclaimed last night in a volume that was perhaps just a smidge too high. “One drink and you’re set—you’re…
Cutting Costs
[I got this gazillion word opus on frugality to within a paragraph of completion and then sat on it for months. Why did I do this?…
Pretend Gingerbread Cookies
I love gingerbread cookies. Well, the way they look anyway. The way they taste? Not so much. So I decided to fake it. Here is a…
Extra Cinnamony Snickerdoodles
I never used to make mistakes while baking. Ever. I would get into this super-anal Martha mode and execute to a T. But now I have…
