Happy New Year! It’s taken me a while to get back to blogging since the holidays due to travel and other activities. I’ve been busy making but sometimes the path from camera to blog is slow. And now when I finally have time, the Lightroom->Flickr plugin is down 🙁 so my other posts will have to…
Wow, I did not mean to go a whole month without posting. It’s not that I haven’t done anything. On the contrary, it’s that I’ve done so much! So much to tell you. So I’ve got several posts coming up. But for now I leave you with this picture of a root beer macaron that…
Although it may seem that I did, I didn’t miss Macaron Day — or Jour Du Macaron as the French call it — on March 20. I made vanilla (see above) and raspberry macarons, trying out some new flavor options with the filling. My husband was sorely disappointed that there was nothing chocolate, but the…
For my birthday this year, my amazing husband got me one of the coolest gifts: a 48 bottle sampler of root beer from The Root Beer Store. This was the perfect gift for me because I love root beer and I love trying new things! My plan was to photograph and rate each one but…
For New Year’s Eve, I decided to make a traditional Norwegian celebration cake. It’s called kransekake which literally translates to “wreath cake” and you’ll soon see why. My husband’s family enjoys one at Christmas every year and we had one at our wedding. My parents really like it so I figured why not make one…
So there’s a bit of a back story to this one. My husband loooooves chicken tikka masala. But not just any chicken tikka masala. Specifically he liked the chicken tikka masala (CTM) from a local restaurant (Godavari formerly known as Sue’s). We were supposed to go there for his birthday last year but they had…
My friend Coco loves Black and White Cookies (aka the interracial cookie). Recently (okay, it was like months ago, but that’s my how my timeline is) she came back from New York raving about them and how she can’t get them here. So I told her I would make her some. I’m going to give…
For New Year’s I wanted to do something special for the dessert. Using a Martha Stewart cake as inspiration, here’s what I came up with. The M&Ms are dark chocolate, peanut butter and pretzel. The 2 and one 1 are vanilla and the 0 and the other 1 are chocolate. The frosting is a simple…
Somewhat a belated Food Friday . . . had a lovely Christmas dinner at my in-laws last night. Started off with the appetizers below. The salmon and caviar is traditional Norwegian fare as is the kransekake above. For those who aren’t familiar, kransekake is a traditional celebration cake in Norway. We had a fabulously large…
When my mom was in town, we stopped by Williams-Sonoma. They had these wonderful little pie molds there. Photo from Williams-Sonoma. So my mom got one for each of us. Recently hubby was bugging me for chicken pot pie again so I took the opportunity to test out my new pie mold using my tried…