Happy Leap Day! February has been one bitch of a month for me personally, so to celebrate the end of it I decided to bake something really, really naughty. I was inspired by monkey bread, a heavenly concoction of cinnamon sugar covered dough that is baked in a sticky brown sugar and butter sauce. The [...]
Saturday, December 31, 2011
There is something magic about food. The last few weeks have been somewhat difficult for me. Nothing too extreme, but I have had a fair amount of work related stress, the stress of Christmas Day, and I am coming up on my first deadline for the next book. Needless to say, I have been a [...]
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
I am a sucker for anything served with a poached egg. From salads to English muffins, poached eggs are among my favorite things to prepare and eat. A perfectly poached egg is a thing of beauty, and when you break into the golden, oozing yolk … well I can’t think of many things that are [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2011
When life gets busy I turn to easy comfort foods. I am currently working, quite furiously, on my next book. In fact, I just passed the half way point! My work on the book, as well as my trips to BlogHer and IFBC New Orleans, mean that this month I will not have as much [...]
Monday, June 27, 2011
Boy, has it been a LONG week … For the second time in three weeks I have gone AWOL, and I am sorry for that. I was hoping that after my last bout of family related drama things would quiet down, but it was not to be. Last week my father was feeling a little [...]
Monday, March 21, 2011
I’m a bad baker. Over the weekend I discovered, much to my shock and horror, that I had run out of butter. It does not happen often and I actually buy two or three pounds at a time as to have plenty on hand at all times. When I do run out I usually [...]
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Valentine’s Day is coming. We do not really celebrate Valentine’s Day here at Casa Shenanigans. No heart shaped boxes of candy, no bunches of wilted grocery store roses, and no adult-sized footie pajamas in the mail. No, we do not celebrate with silly tokens. We celebrate with food. Sometimes we go out, but more often [...]
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
I will admit, I am always looking for new ways to eat Nutella. It is probably one of the tastiest spreads out there, and I will admit to occasionally eating it straight from the jar. No, not my proudest moments. Anyway, I have been up to my eyeballs in pies this week so when it [...]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
It has been pretty cold here, and I have been pretty busy. I have been busy plugging away on my cookbook and that has taken a lot of my time. So much of my time, in fact, that I have dedicated very little time to recreational baking. So, when I decided to come out of [...]
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Forget the resolutions … I’ll take a muffin! It is a new year and rather than plague myself with empty promises about how I will eat better and work out more I decided to kick off the new year with a fragrant chocolate studded muffin. Muffins make a great breakfast, are always good to give [...]
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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