Baking bread is an exercise in faith. It’s mystery and miracle and mess all wrapped in one yeasted loaf. I’m a reluctant bread baker. I come to the process a skeptic. Even as I watch yeast send frothy bubbles to the surface of warm water, I wonder, will this actually work? And as dough works [...]
Today I’m joining The Giving Table and over 200 other food bloggers to raise awareness about hunger in America and share a recipe for Mexican Lasagna that is budget friendly, easy, healthy and delicious. Finding a recipe that fit all four of those requirements was a lot harder than it sounds. But I’m getting ahead [...]
That last post was a little heavy, no? It seems a little odd to just jump into Triple Chip Peanut Butter Cookies after a post about the fact that 1 in 3 black men will spend time in prison at some point in their lives. You don’t just “move on” from a statistic like that. [...]
For the most part, I try to avoid statistics. I’m more of a words kind of girl. Words have the power to etch faces into the fabric of my mind. Stories put flesh on the skeletons of a number. But occasionally, a statistic moves me. It sticks. I can’t shake it. A number. Chasing after [...]
You may recall The Great Chocolate Chip Cookie Experiment of 2011. With the help of the Mr, I conducted a serious side by side comparison study of two of my favorite chocolate chip cookie dough recipes. We were thorough in our approach. Each cookie had to be baked on the same pan, in the same [...]
Image courtesy of Mihai Tamasila If anything characterized the first 6 years of my adult life it was change. Movement was a rhythm of sorts, as sure as the changing seasons. Each fall and summer of my college days, I would pack my little Honda Accord so full of stuff I couldn’t see out the [...]
The dust of the holidays has finally settled. The ornaments are swaddled in newspaper. The lights are bundled haphazardly together. (I dread the thought of opening that tupperware next December.) My Michael Buble Christmas CD is tucked back in its holder, and the little baby Jesus is back in his styrofoam home next to the [...]
It feels like it was just a few months ago when I finally quit writing 2011 by accident. Now, here we are, with another impending date change upon us. It feels so terribly old to say this, but time really does fly. I remember people telling me that when I was younger. I would laugh [...]
I’ve been doing all I’m supposed to do to get ready for the holiday season this year. I’ve been buying gifts, cleaning house, stringing lights, listening to Christmas music. But somehow I’ve felt disconnected, removed from the glimmer and cheer of the season. Maybe it’s because I see so many people struggling just to put [...]
You’re here! Hooray! I am so excited you all made it to the new site! This site has been months and months in the making and I can’t even express to you how amazing it is for it to finally be a reality. There’s a lot of new stuff going on here, so I wanted [...]
