• Lemon ricotta pancakes

    Yes, we are apparently on a pancake kick around here. Don’t judge. And actually, I made these partly because I had a lot of ricotta cheese in the fridge that I didn’t want to go bad. But I do think they might be the best pancakes yet. The combination of the ricotta and whipped egg […]

  • Guinness chocolate cake

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! You all know Guinness is good for you, right? Well, Guinness chocolate cake is even better. I tried to drink the leftover beer… that didn’t work out. Maybe I should have let it come to room temperature and poured it into a pint glass? Since I made this as a bundt […]

  • Brown soda bread

    I have a confession to make: When I went to Dublin (in 2000), I ate at Planet Hollywood. Yeah, I know. The first day I was there, I went on a tour of the countryside and ate at a little pub in the middle of nowhere. Later, I tried a boxty (hated it) and even […]

  • Grasshopper pie

    I love reading The Pioneer Woman’s cooking blog and looking at all the fabulous photos. But I don’t actually make a ton of the things she posts, mainly because she likes a lot of things that I don’t like or can’t eat — like mushrooms (gross) and seafood (allergic). HOWEVER. As soon as I saw […]

  • Pimento mac & cheese

    I’ve been thinking about pimento cheese since January, when I saw this post by Camille at Creative Pursuits. So I was really excited when I opened my mailbox and saw the pimento macaroni and cheese on the March cover of Bon Appetit. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I have […]

  • Pancakes

    There are few things better than waking up to a big stack of hot pancakes. Especially when they were made by someone hot. Ryan D’Agostino of Esquire knows the power of pancakes, and has a very simple recipe he carries in his wallet for any time he needs to whip up a batch. We haven’t […]

  • National Pancake Day

    I’m sorry I haven’t been posting much lately. I have been pretty busy, I haven’t been cooking that much and then I left my camera at a friend’s house in Baltimore. But I do have exciting news: Today is National Pancake Day! My darling husband made some pancakes two weekends ago (for National Pancake Week, […]

  • Two new obsessions

    Since I started an actual fire inside my oven last night and set off our smoke alarm, I think I need to tweak the recipe I was using a bit before posting it. In the meantime, I wanted to tell you about two exciting things I discovered this week while seeking lunch in Annapolis (instead […]

  • Award-winning bourbon chili

    Toby doesn’t cook much, but he does make chili. In fact, he was already an award-winning chili chef when I met him. Of course, the award may have had a little to do with the fact that the judges were Marines and the chili contains bourbon. But this chili IS good. And pretty easy to […]

  • Red velvet cupcakes

    You know what today is, right? Arizona’s 99th birthday! What better way to celebrate that — and that other holiday — than red velvet cupcakes? You need cake flour for this recipe, and I thought I had a whole box. Then I picked up the box to measure it and realized I only had about […]