April 5, 2010
I spent the Saturday night before Easter baking sugar cookies. The kitchen was absolutely crazy: I was making two different kinds of cookies (at the same time) and my mom was making her famous deviled eggs for Easter at my godfather’s house. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 30, 2010
Lately at the Recipe4Living office, we have been getting serious cases of the munchies. A while back, we received an Emerilware Bread Machine by T-fal. We used it a couple times, but lately, it has been sitting around and gathering dust. “Let’s bust out that bread maker and bake some bread!” we decided one day. After leafing through the Emerilware Bread Maker recipe book, we decided to bake a loaf of the delicious-sounding Pecan & Dried Cranberry Whole Wheat Bread.
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January 7, 2009
With every new year comes new year’s resolutions. Some people try and lose weight, while others try and become more organized. But in the foodie world, we have our own sets of resolutions. Like for instance, this year I’d like to make more foods from scratch (or at least attempt to).
So if you haven’t guessed by now, this month we asked our favorite foodies: “What is your Foodie New Year’s Resolution? What types of food do you hope to try, cook, or stay away from in the next year?”
Answers after the jump!
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July 23, 2008
A few months ago, I received wonderfully exciting news that a farmer’s market would be setting up shop across the street from my apartment every Sunday morning this summer. I was immediately fantasizing about stepping outside my door and browsing the stands, choosing locally grown fruits and vegetables for the week. I already told you about my love of the Madison farmer’s market and I was hoping to rekindle that love in the River North neighborhood.
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July 10, 2008
For most college students, the ideal birthday present is either beer or money to buy beer. But me, I’ve always preferred cookies. In fact, many of my fond birthday memories center around cookies. My freshman year, my friend ordered the Cookie Guy - a genius service that delivers hot, freshly baked cookies to your door (or dorm room) with cold milk to wash it down. (Hillary has expressed similar love for the University of Illinois version.)
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May 19, 2008
I often meet my grandma for lunch during the week because she lives very close to my office. It is a wonderful treat that I take very much for granted since I forget that most people cannot meet their 84 year-old grandmothers for a hot dog just to catch up and chat during their lunch breaks. My grandma is many wonderful things, but possibly her most well-known trait is her phenomenal talent for baking (and tennis and knitting, but that’s just not relevant here). I have mentioned before that baking is a very serious matter in my family, so it shouldn’t have come as any surprise when she pulled this out of her purse today at lunch:
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