Last winter, people got really excited about red wine hot chocolate. I thought it sounded kind of dumb, so I let it be. Well, here I am, months later, faced with a chocolate craving and a remaining third of a bottle of merlot. So I said, screw it, let’s try it. I’m going to come
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It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and a lot of you are probably wondering why I’ve decided to make a post about ham and potatoes instead of turkey and stuffing, like pretty much every other blogger on the planet. Honestly, I don’t have a good answer for that, but I do have a kind of funny,
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For this week’s post, we have a special sort of double feature. August 25th is National Banana Split Day. In honor of what might be one of the sweetest holidays ever, I’m here to bring you not one, but TWO delicious treats. One of them, of course, is food, but the icing on this cake
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As someone who grew up in an Italian household eating copious amounts of pasta and baking cookies every other day of the week, I never really had much of an interest in dieting. I was vegetarian for a while, but I was also an extremely competitive and active runner at the time, and I couldn’t
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I’m in a goofy mood, and the squash recipe I want to make will take longer than I have, tonight. So, instead, I’m going to provide you with a strange little editorial about pumpkin spice. For some reason, people seem to be obsessed with pumpkin spice. There’s the normal pumpkin-spice latte that every white girl
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Last year, when my friend Skyler was here at RIT, he often used to make me “emergency cookies” when I had a bad day. With the amount of stress I’ve been under so far this school year, I’ve really missed those cookies. Now, that’s not to say that I just miss the man for his
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So, I thought I already made a post on kielbasa and kraut, but apparently I didn’t. I’m rectifying that now, because even if I did make one, I a) can’t find it, and b) probably need to write it in the new format anyway.This recipe is for the slightly more experienced chef, and I say
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Since it’s football/sports-that-I-care-about season again, you’re probably going to see an influx of snack foods. This week brings you your first installment, courtesy of PB Bars and now some homemade pizza rolls.Honestly, this recipe is one I just kind of winged, based off of something I had at a Superbowl party, last year. According to
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I love peanut butter, so when I saw this recipe for peanut butter-based brownies on 12 Tomatoes, I got really excited. What’s even better, I had time to make them before a football party at a friend’s place, in Sunday. I had all the ingredients I needed, too, except for the peanut butter chips. Worried
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Sorry about the late post, all! I hope everyone had a great Labor Day, and I would just like to point you guys in the direction of RIT Behind the Bricks. I do writing and photography for them, and my boss was kind enough to let me do a joint post, this week, between BTB
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