Category Archives: The Internet

Black Bean Soup

Lest you think we are only about sugar and cream and flour around here, take a look at that picture. Black. Bean. Soup. Served over chewy brown rice with a dollop of sour cream, this stuff is heaven. I got … Continue reading

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Dark Chocolate Fleur de Sel Cupcakes with Snappy Butterscotch Icing

Salty sweets seem to be catching my eye lately. First there were those salty oatmeal cookies and now these dark chocolate cupcakes that are liberally sprinkled with coarse salt before baking and after frosting. The cupcakes were good, but the … Continue reading

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Salted Oatmeal Cookies

The two weeks before Christmas were filled with batches of caramel and almond toffee, peppermint bark and nougat. At the end of it all, I was sugared out. That lasted approximately 10 seconds, then I found this recipe for oatmeal … Continue reading

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Chocolate Cookies

The folks over at www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/ have the perfect job. See, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make money by baking whatever I want, whenever I want. So far, I haven’t had much luck, but I’m sure enjoying the … Continue reading

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Golden Pull-Apart Butter Buns

A week or so before Thanksgiving, I went on a mission to find a really good roll recipe for those all-important leftover turkey sandwiches. I think I tried three or four recipes before finally settling on this one from the … Continue reading

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Chocolate Sheet Cake

This cake has been making the rounds in the food blogging world. The recipe comes from thepioneerwoman.com, a website by Ree Drummond, chronicling her life on a ranch. She’s witty, funny and irreverent, and I’m insanely jealous of her kitchen. … Continue reading

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Dulce de Leche

Almost exactly a year ago, I was wandering around the Borough Market in London. It was my first trip to London, and I was having a fantastic time. The market was full of people and food, and I probably looked … Continue reading

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Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

I haven’t been doing much baking lately because it has been too hot. But we’ve cooled down over the last couple of days, and I started feeling the baking itch. During my internet surfing, I came across this recipe from … Continue reading

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Chicken and Rice Casserole

For more than eight months, this recipe has been sitting in my “to try” pile. But instead of making it during the dark, cold days of winter when we craved comfort food, I had to wait until the hottest week … Continue reading

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Raspberry Buttermilk Cake Recipe

This is the perfect little cake. It is quick and easy to make with ingredients that are probably sitting in your kitchen right now. There are no fancy mixing methods, no expensive, hard-to-find ingredients and no decadent frostings. Not too … Continue reading

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