Confession: When Harry Potter first came out, I wasn’t the biggest fan. To be fair, I was maybe ten-years-old and completely refused to even give the series a chance. I received the first two books for Christmas and didn’t touch them for months. It was only when my uncle decided to make a bet with me–that he …
Sometimes, the simplest things are the best things out there. For example, my favorite type of chocolate is a nice square of anything above 60% dark with salt added to it. When added to something sweet, salt actually helps accentuate the sweetness; it does it with a depth that simply adding more sugar can never …
One of my friends from college is from Canada. Our sophomore year, she introduced our suite to these amazing little treats that her mom sent her: Nanaimo bars. I’m pretty sure she regretted letting us know that she had them, because these are really the kind of dessert you want to keep all for yourself. …
The World Cup is in full swing, and I think the biggest surprise has been how little time I’ve actually had to watch it this year. Now, let me put this out there–for me, the World Cup is essentially my Olympics. I look forward to it every four years. Who can resist a full day …
Bacon. It’s so good that even Michael Scott was willing to injure himself just to wake up to the smell of it cooking. There’s a craze surrounding it. Literally. There is a full Wikipedia page out there about bacon mania. We dip it in chocolate, wrap it around the outside of sandwiches, and even make …
If you don’t know what a s’more is, I’m going to have to direct you to this video from the Sandlot. “Hey, you want a s’more?” Actually, even if you do know what a s’more is, I’m still going to need you to watch that video. The scene is a classic and gave us not …
Back in 2011, my friends and I stayed up all night to watch the Royal Wedding. We’d just come off a night out at the end of our senior year and probably all managed to fit in a two-hour nap in some of my friends’ house (otherwise known as Mildred). We gathered on the couch–and …
Happy Mother’s Day to all of you moms out there! I hope your kids are treating you right today and showing you the appreciation you deserve. My mom has been forced to eat these cookies all week–which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, except for the fact that I somehow forgot the peanut butter the first …
Did you ever have a snack that you just couldn’t resist? You open the bag and no matter how hard you try, you know you’ll never be able to put it down? For me, that used to be the chocolate-covered potato chips from Trader Joe’s. There maybe used to be eight in the bag total–ruffled …
You can tell it’s spring by the sheer amount of fruit and berries that have made their way into my recipes lately. First there were the Banoffee Cookies, then the Raspberry and Cream Shortbread, the Blueberry and Cream Cookies, and now there are these: Raspberry, Dark Chocolate, & Pistachio Cookies. This is one of those recipes …