This is the story of a last minute dessert. A dessert with the best of intentions that went from idea …. to failure… to success. Dare I say, an even better success than it would have been it everything had worked out. I invited my friend Ann over on Saturday for dinner. I lured her…
Did I paint my nails just for this picture? Yes. Did I paint just the left hand? Also yes. How long did it take for me to paint the right hand? 48 hours. I’ve been this way for years. It either takes me an hour to do my nails… or days. Or I never finish…
I’ve had this cake on my list for most of the summer. And sweet lord, it is good. It also has like a whole lot more steps than I normally take on. But, the minute I tasted this frosting I knew it was all worth it. I have literally never tasted anything so light and…
Yes, I made up this cake name. Yes, it is perfect for any firework related holiday but really perfect for the 4th of July. Or perhaps a child’s birthday? Either way, I have a lot of excess pop rocks and I’d like to find a new home for them preferably outside of my house. The…
Have you ever eaten a good, fudgy brownie … and been like why can’t this be a whole cake? If so, this is the cake for you. It is like a cake make out of just the middle fudgy part of the brownie. Not the crust not the bottom, not the edges… just the…
I’m going to make this quick… because green bean salad is pretty straight forward. I almost wouldn’t write it up but when I was menu planning for this years 4th of July… I realized I never wrote down what I made last year. Devastating. My formula for the 4th of July menu is always the…
I will continue to stand by the principle that I only make things I wouldn’t mind eating for several days. That will be the case 1000% with this pasta salad. Turns out I didn’t need to double it… one batch would have been just fine. Thankfully, this super easy pasta salad is light enough that…
I love a good potato salad. It can be so many things… extra creamy, extra savory, extra just about anything. There was this amazing potato salad we grew up with that had peas and bacon in it. I’m sure there were other things but I flipping love that stuff. It came as a side whenever…
I stumbled upon my own 2019 Intentions post last week – and realized I was dropping the ball. So with half the year almost behind us, it seemed like a good time to check-in and see how I was doing across the board. I can say with a great degree of confidence, I am failing…
… and when I say Quick, I really mean quick. This whole recipe was complete from start to finish in about 75 minutes – which is impressive considering its not just a “dump it all in” casserole. You have legit manual labor to do here. I was in the market for a good Father’s Day…
