We bought our Christmas tree this past weekend! Now my house is officially 73% cheerier, 45% good-smellier, 26% baby-endangeringer, and 100% pine-needlier than it was before. I love, love, love walking into the front room and seeing our tree decked out with glowing lights and sparkling ornaments. If there was a way to hug the…
I didn’t mean to post another pumpkin recipe so soon. “Play it cool, Liz,” I thought. “Space them out so people don’t think you’re a pumpkin freak. How about a nice vanilla cake recipe?” But then the sky split open. After a cloudy Sunday morning and a mostly-clear afternoon, a monstrous rainstorm just swooped in,…
Halloween is over and I barely remember it. I didn’t get to go trick or treating, I didn’t get to dress in that “sexy manatee” costume I had planned, and I didn’t eat nearly as many pumpkin-flavored goods as I wanted to. October was a bust and I want a do-over. Fortunately we still have…
Guess who just had a birthday? That’s right, the hungry hungry hubby, the ravenous rhino, the Cool J to my LL, just celebrated a milestone birthday. Guess how old he turned? Every day closer to decrepitude now! Guess how we celebrated? We had a little-boy party with old-fashioned party games, including this variation on Pin…
Dear Inventor of the Bundt Cake Mold, What is the deal with all of the ridges? Why would you purposely create more nooks and crannies for my poor cake to stick to? If I wanted to spend an hour scraping cake from the inside of a pan and then painstakingly cleaning it with a toothbrush,…
Ooooh this was a good one. Pecan pie has never really done it for me, I think it’s too sweet and too much like nuts suspended in corn syrup to really be exciting. However, adding melted dark chocolate and chunks of bittersweet chocolate to the mix made things really interesting. It was like a moist,…
I admit that pumpkin pie is not my favorite. I love pumpkin flavor in breads and other baked goods, but somehow that has never translated to pie love. I suspect it’s a texture thing mostly, but I’ve never been too bothered, as Thanksgiving means plenty of other desserts to eat. However, I was very pleasantly…
Orange rolls are my family’s traditional Thanksgiving bread of choice. I feel good including them on a dessert blog because with their sugar, butter, eggs, and sweet glaze, they’re not quite in the healthy carb category. (But rest assured, they are in the tasty carb category). I always make extra for leftover turkey sandwiches.
