If there’s one magical power that college students possess, it is the ability to forgo sleep when necessary. You may think I’m joking, but wait until the week before finals start. Wander a residence hall around 3am and you’ll find quite a few lights on. The diligent students working on essays in the study lounges. [...]
It’s hot. Like really hot. Like can-you-grab-the-remote-for-me-I-don’t-want-to-move-at-all kind of hot. To be more precise, it is 90 degrees with a level of humidity that can only be described as choking. My hair is an unruly mass of frizz and my glasses keep fogging up whenever I step from the air conditioned house to the backyard garden. [...]
Take a good look at that photo. No. Really look at it. That right there, is my idea of perfection; a jar of Nutella and a spoon. My dad introduced me to the chocolate hazelnut spread when I was in highschool. “Really?” I gawked. “You can make sandwiches out of this stuff? You can buy [...]
Posted in Desserts, Recipes, Vegetarian on 29. Jun, 2009
Have you ever tried a Pluot? You should, because they seem to be taking my local farm market by storm right now. A pluot is an innovative hybrid between a plum and an apricot – get it? The result is a remarkably juicy fruit with a deep flavor. They come in at ten different varieties [...]
Everyone needs one really good cookie recipe for their arsenal. I’m giving you two. Because who doesn’t love cookies, right? The first recipe is one that I’ve used since I was in grade school, memorized like the alphabet or all the words to Hanson. Every time I go home, my family begs me to bake [...]
A buttery pastry shell, filled with a smooth lime custard and heaped with the fattest blueberries I’d ever seen. Almost unnecessarily, it was gilded with a simple fruit glaze. Like something out of a magazine, except I was eating it.
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