In an open letter to a piece of king cake that made me want,

“I probably shouldn’t be telling you this, but as soon as I took that bread knife in hand, I knew that my basest desires would be unleashed. I have never felt this way about a piece of food before, but you made a million Prince songs go through my head, most of note ‘Do Me […]

Recipe 100

About 2 weeks ago I completed one of my more ambitious birthday goals: try 100 new recipes!! I learned a lot about the things that I like and the things that I don’t like. I also learned a lot about foisting things upon other people! This is a Cardamom Crumb Cake from the latest Everyday… Continue reading Recipe 100

7-up Cake

Believe it or not, I have never ever had 7-up Cake before today. I was trying to deal with the magazine infestation that has plagued me for some time when I came across a recipe for the cake in an old issue of Cooks Illustrated. Sounded good. So I clipped the recipe and bought the… Continue reading 7-up Cake

Plum cake

As soon as a happened upon this cake, (thank you Bloglines for delivering the blogs I like to read in such an easy way), I knew that I wanted to make it. I actually thought of the cake every day until this morning when I finally made it. Wait, let me correct that. Until this… Continue reading Plum cake