And if you’re like me and you really could do without all the bug bites and sunburns that camping brings, just stay inside your apartment and make S’mores Cupcakes. They’re a lot prettier than regular S’mores, and last longer too! I found this recipe at Cupcake Bakeshop, a fabulous blog that chronicles the cupcake adventures [...]
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Marketwatch: Is it spring yet?
Reading Peter Singer and Jim Mason’s The Ethics of What We Eat (review) is making me question my gastro-values and it inspired me to go to the Union Square Greenmarket for the first time in a while (perhaps the first time this year…). Hopefully I will write a post after I finish the book. I [...]
Pumpkin Muffin Bliss
Until my recent baking revelation, I hadn’t had too much success with the desserts (see: iPile); especially delicate baked goods like muffins. Back in the November Gourmet, I was captivated by a pumpkin muffin recipe in You Asked For It. It seemed foolproof (and I won’t lie, that’s what I look for in baked goods). [...]
Gourmet’s French Macaroons
I don’t think I’ve ranted about my oven before. Since I moved in this past September, I hung a thermometer in there because it always seemed unreliable. We learned it was usually anywhere from 25 to 50 degrees off. And when the stars line up just right, as it turns out, the temperature can get [...]
Introducing iPile (and two other apple pies)
A few weeks ago I undertook to bake my first pie. Apple pie, as I’ve learned, is wrought with peril. In my three apple pie experiences I fell into three of the most notable traps: soupy filling, undercooked center, and ‘the incredible shrinking apple’. Before I talk about the failures, because, really, they weren’t failures [...]