Archive for the ‘Breakfast’ Category

When the White Chocolate Pretzel Peanut Butter Spread is gone, it’ll be the lowest point thus far in your eating career, no exceptions.  There will never be such a void.  Never a valley so deep, chasm so wide, but most importantly, never a jar so empty.  And you’ll look too, you’ll look deep into the [...]

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Granola can be made by non-hippies too…. Click here for the recipe.


Delicious food, and lots of it, can be a clandestine form of torture.  Masquerading as risotto studded with sweet, piquant black garlic, roasted cauliflower with pepperoncini, capers and bacon, buttermilk fried chicken with garlic mashed potatoes, perfectly seared scallops with chive and rape pesto or, the most deceiving food trickery of all—or just for one [...]

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It’s here: the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Click here for the recipe.


If last week’s testimony to Georgetown coffee shop and bakery Baked and Wired didn’t convince you to visit, if the idea of banana cupcakes topped with peanut butter frosting and chocolate drizzle somehow didn’t justify a leisurely stroll, Metro ride, drive, train trip, plane flight, sail…let me try again. Yes, it may takes upwards of [...]

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Apple Crisp.

02Mar11

Bake your own apple crisp…guaranteed to be delicious and on the plus side, it’s like a homemade, cinnamon and fruity air freshener.



There is no contest between macarons and cupcakes, or even macarons and whoopee pies.  Dubbed the next ‘cupcakes’ in terms of baked good trends by Bon Appetit, macarons and whoopee pie have been set up for an explosive entry into mass consumption.  Move aside cupcake bakeries of the 2000’s, you’ve been replaced.  (Thank god.) But [...]

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My heart is broken.  In fact, it is twice broken, both times at the hands of baked goods.  The first instance of breakage was after the discovery that my beloved Great Harvest Bread Company of Evanston, IL on Central St. is in fact just one franchise of a national company.  The coziness, the steamy windows [...]

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Caffe Nute.

04Nov10

There are many things Italy can do apparently, and one of them is convert someone with a strong dislike of coffee into an espresso drinker.  It’s magic, I swear, that funny shaped peninsula filled with lovely sculpture, ridiculous amounts of silk and more than it’s fair share of pasta.  It’s converted my roommate, in what [...]

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