When Matt was growing up, his Dad would make waffles just about every Sunday for the family.  He has such fond memories of it, and wanted to start the same tradition with our kids.  Even though our little girl isn’t due for another 6 weeks, and even though she won’t be eating solids for quite [...]

Last night, at about 4pm, hubby says he’d love to have pizza for dinner.  At that point I’m wondering if we can have dough ready by a reasonable time, or if we need to stop by Trader Joe’s on the way home for a pre-made dough.  Its been a long while since I’ve made pizza [...]

When I hear something called “wholesome” it makes me think of flavorless cardboard with a side of glue.  The texture is never right, and the flavor always leaves you wanting a Twinkie. About 4 years ago, a close friend brought over some “wholesome” muffins that she had just baked.  Be still my heart. There were [...]

Sometimes simple is best.  Probably more often than not, right? I have had an itch to make a sweet and simple 6″ cake.  I thought an all-American classic of yellow cake with chocolate frosting would be perect! Unlike the past layer cakes I’ve done, I decided that this time I would bake three small separate [...]

I know this is a baking site.  This fact is not lost on me as I post this un-baked (savory, not sweet!) Thai coconut shrimp.  Charity and I are taking a hiatus from our SOB adventures and instead alternating picking ingredients and then making a recipe with that.  It can be sweet or savory, main [...]

I like to think of myself as someone who embraces challenging recipes… and I think I usually am that person.  But this latest edition of SOB that Charity, of Sweet Charity Pie, and I bring you had me seriously procrastinating.  I was scared of laminated dough.  I mean really scared. So I just put it [...]

Chocolate peanut-butter macarons, to be exact :) This was the very first time I’ve ever attempted parisian macarons, and I’ve wanted to try to make them for a long long time. In our latest SOB installment, the pick was mine and I jumped on the chance to make these. Charity was game from the get-go, [...]

In our latest SOB installment, Charity chose – and lemon curd it was!  I won’t point out for too long that this was chosen around November or something (??) but with the holidays and other craziness, I just couldn’t get on the ball.  But the New Year is well underway and we’re back!  :)

Oh my – was I excited about this one.  Here’s the next installment of SOB starring Charity of Sweet Charity Pie and myself :) It was my pick this time, and although we both already did a creme brulee for Tuesdays with Dorie, and although we had just done a vanilla sauce for the ice [...]