Archive for the ‘Quick’ Category
Brownies are great. For a while. Amazingly enough, it is possible to get a wee bit tired of the fudgey chocolaty dark squares. Enter blondies. Made with brown sugar, these beauties yield a butterscotch and caramel combination that is irresistible. Especially if you’re a chocolate and coconut fan. They’re great to wrap up and give [...]
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How have I not experienced the phenomenon that is toasted coconut until now? The mere scent of the nutty sweetness drifting from the oven is enough to make me smile in anticipation. Whoever thought to crack that ugly bowling ball looking sphere deserves a metal. And whoever thought to make them into marshmallows deserves a [...]
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Happy Labor Day, everyone! Today is a very special day for another reason as well. Today I claim my creative right to pretend that I’m ten years old. Because when you’re ten, no one looks at you funny when you happily munch on an entire bowl of caramel popcorn while reading a novel under the [...]
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Can you believe it? It’s almost September already, yet the signs of Fall have yet to arrive. Instead, here in sunny California, we have heated days and breezy nights, making me want to spend the entire day by the poolside with a cold drink in hand.
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I adore lemons. They’re always rolling around my kitchen somewhere, and definitely always on my shopping list. I use them on savory dishes, salad dressings, and of course, desserts. I’ve been making this recipe forever.
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One of my fondest memories of my childhood stay in Korea involve munching on crisp violet-hued watermelon slices on the front yard of my grandma’s country house. We would buy the perfectly round Korean fruit from the ridiculously loud farmer trucks that drove by everyday, loaded with fresh picked watermelon from the local farm.
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Pudding is a funny thing. Creamy, rich, satisfying yet deceptively light. The original recipe includes whipped cream for topping the pudding, but I decided to keep with the caramel theme and add some caramel candy shards on top. The great thing about the shards is that after a couple of hours in the fridge they [...]
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When I was little my mom used to make this breakfast concoction called “Egg Toast”. Contrary to what you would think, these were not eggs on toast. They were mutant simulations of what mother understood French toast to be. Which is amusing now that I figured out French toast is on the sweeter side of [...]
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I’m a Cali girl. Born and raised here, it’s who I am. I’ve never really been to the East Coast, much less the South.
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Warning: The following post is not intended for the squeamish or faint of heart. If you failed high school Biology because you ran out of the room crying at the sight of the frog you were supposed to dissect, please refrain from entering this post. Graphic photos involved. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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