This is what it looks like when everyone in a room is standing around eating ice cream and hot sauce.
The Heaven and Hell Takedown occurred back in August, but five months later seems like a good time to talk about it, right?
We competed in the hot sauce [...]
This weekend, I’ll be cooking for a crowd in the first annual Boston Ice Cream & Hot Sauce Takedown.
J & I are competing in the hot sauce division. We practically burnt off our own faces in the process of creating this recipe. At one point, I wished we had one of those emergency eye [...]
Sporcle is a fun online quiz site that can test your knowledge in just about anything. I recently found some food-related quizzes I have never taken, so I decided to save my scores and challenge you guys to beat them!
If you want to play along, take the quizzes (each has a 6-minute [...]
As I begin my second full year of blogging, I want to take some vows.
I have picked up a lot of tips over the course of the past year, so these blog goals are separate from the resolutions I already set as personal goals. I hope everything on this list [...]
We are just about to head out for the Cookie Swap for a Cause. I figured it is safe to tell you all about my cookie recipe now.
I wanted to make something special with a simple execution, because more cookies is better. I decided on thumbprints because they are a [...]
Don’t tell Santa, but I am making a lot of cookies this weekend and he isn’t getting a single one. These are cookies for a cause, not a Clause.
I very excitedly signed up for the Cookie Swap for a Cause as soon as I caught wind of it. Here is [...]
Something as basic as a chocolate chip cookie can translated into a thousand different recipes. When I think of a warm, freshly baked chocolate chip cookie, I imagine something like Mrs. Field’s:
But when I bake them at home, they come out like looking like this:
Round dough balls, light and [...]
Fast food is a major component of the American diet, whether we like it or not.
The convenience of quick, on-the-go meals in undeniable, but it shouldn’t take precedence over proper nutrition. There doesn’t have to be anything morally wrong with enjoying a hamburger and french fries out of a paper bag. Just [...]
I have a dream that I will win every recipe contest I ever enter, make a living off the prize money, and enjoy foodie vacations and kitchen swag for the rest of my life.
Last week, I spent an hour of my life plugging in every online recipe contest I could possibly enter [...]
Competing in a cooking event has always been a dream of mine. I have seen every variety of cooking competition on TV, featuring every skill level of cooks. I hoped that someday I would enter myself in a recipe contest for amateur home cooks. This weekend, I made that dream come true!
