Happy Tuesday! After all the excitement of Sunday, it's just been sunny peacefulness as usual here. (Phew.) Before blueberries go out of season, I thought I'd share the first of a couple of recipes with blueberries that I made earlier in the summer, during one of those kicks where boxes of fat blueberries are overflowing on the grocery shelves ...
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gooey brownies with peanut butter swirl, for two
easy turkey pesto club
So we're in the homestretch before the bar! It's one week from tomorrow. At this point, I'm more resigned than afraid (or in denial?), but I should still probably post this quick and scurry back to studying. Here's a quick and easy toasted club sandwich with pesto mayo, sliced turkey and chicken, my favorite spreadable cheese from Laughing Cow, ...
the best chocolate chip cookies i’ve ever baked
Today is Sunday. That, to me, feels like a cookie day. I was going to post a delectable recipe I just found on Taste Love & Nourish, these wonderfully decadent but (relatively) guilt-free chocolate fudge cookies, but I've been having problems with my new oven where none of my cookies will spread! And I don't know why! :( (If anyone happens to ...
a take on panera’s napa almond chicken salad
banana and blueberry pancakes
As it turns out, studying for the bar is no fun. No fun at all. But if there's anything that makes it okay, ridiculously fluffy homemade banana pancakes must be high on the list. This past Sunday, I thought we would take a break from memorizing the law by indulging in a traditional lazy, full-fat, extra-syrup brunch, and for the first time, I ...
triple berry tartlets
One of the first blogs I ever started following was Cupcakes and Cashmere. It's remarkable how much my focus has shifted over the last few years in terms of what blogs I like to read; initially it was purely fashion blogs, but as I've come to cook more and more, and especially in the years since I've come to live in my own apartment, blogs on ...
milk-stout-shakes!
A few weeks ago, I came upon this ingenious idea for porter milkshakes on Yellow Brick Home, and was so floored. Beer milkshakes! Why did this never occur to me before? We're not frequent porter drinkers, but we are huge fans of Left Hand Milk Stout, and usually have it in constant supply. So it was an easy step to go out and buy some vanilla ice ...
butter mochi
Butter mochi! The subject of my third and final installment of this little series on Hawaiian foods (parts 1 and 2 were on ahi poke and Spam musubi). I love all the ways that Hawaii is a blend of Asian and Western influences -- when it comes to food, it can only mean good things. For instance, I'm not the biggest fan of traditional Asian ...
spicy ahi poke, inspired by foodland
Spicy ahi poke is perhaps my greatest love in the food world. First introduced to me when I visited Bowl #2's family in Hawaii, poke is pretty much just fresh chunks of tuna marinated in soy sauce and other ingredients. Some describe it as a Hawaiian ceviche, which I find apt but not all-encompassing of its utter perfection (I just describe it as ...