Sorry I have been a bit MIA! But, luckily for you it was my 30th birthday this weekend, which means tons of food and, of course, strawberry funfetti cupcakes. I love pink, I love rainbow sprinkles and I love strawberries. Plus it was an 80s party. So strawberry funfetti cupcakes were kind of a no-brainer. […]
My husband loves cherries. And as I may have mentioned, he told me that his only request for a Fourth of July dessert was that the secret ingredient be cherries. I did the cherries on a cloud, of course, but I had also purchased a big bag of fresh cherries. I could make a pie, […]
Pretty much every time I go to the grocery store, I see the bananas and think, “Maybe if I get these bananas, I will eat one of those for breakfast instead of a monster cookie.” Then I buy them, and the following happens: There are many things you can do with brown bananas. Banana-coconut muffins […]
My brother calls beer “liquid bread.” So I guess you could call these “bread biscuits.” But that just doesn’t have the same ring to it. We are always stocked up on beer in the EatSwimShop house, courtesy of our Heineken mini-keg and the Beer of the Month club. The specimen above is from the ATL […]
OMG. I was just reading a very serious and important story in the Baltimore Sun… and then I saw this. Duff Goldman, of “Ace of Cakes” fame, now has a line of cake-making supplies. Truthfully, some of them sound a little shady. And I wish the website had some ingredients listed so I could decide […]
This dessert is amazing. It doesn’t take a ton of actual work, but you do have to start making it about 24 hours before you want to serve it. And it is soooo worth it. Imagine cherry pie filling floating on a magical cloud of meringue, whipped cream and marshmallows. If you love sugar (and […]
Since I am old and don’t have any kids, I was unaware of the Silly Bandz trend until recently. I saw them advertised on a sign at a shopping center last week, and then some friends of ours came to visit with their 11-year-old daughter. In case you are as out-of-the-loop as I was, Silly […]
I was originally going to make barbecue chicken the other day when our friends came over. But then I remembered I had a ton of pork tenderloins and a package of bacon in my freezer that I needed to use. What does that mean? Bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin, obviously. I learned this recipe in a cooking […]
I love sugar cookies. Love them. There is this family story that involves an elementary-school-age me spending hours arranging individual sprinkles on these miniature Christmas cookies so they would all be perfect (i.e. two blue sprinkles for eyes on an angel cookie, a few yellow sprinkles on her head for a halo). I am a […]
Happy Fourth of July, y’all! We actually kind of had our holiday dinner yesterday, because Toby had to work both days and Hilary’s husband has to work today. So Matt and Hilary came over yesterday. When I was deciding what to make for dinner, this was the only thing I was sure I would make. […]