Recipes
Skip to Recipe I started writing this post back in late June, with the full intention of posting it as a 4th of July post. Then, mangoes happened, and I got distracted. Still, a good red velvet cake is something that should be shared. I came across this recipe while I was looking for firm
Skip to Recipe So, a good friend of mine broke her foot the other day. To cheer her up, I offered to make her any type of cake she wanted. She initially asked for a Kit Kat cake. But, some subliminal messaging from another friend, as well as an earlier suggestion from one of my coworkers,
Skip to Recipe I have a serious problem. I obsess over things. All it takes is for the small seed of an idea to be planted, and the idea grows at an exponential rate and grabs hold of my brain. Then, it won’t let go. It’s this tendency to obsess that will lead me to
Skip to Recipe Not long ago, a friend of mine mentioned that she cooked a grilled cheese sandwich in the microwave. She said this with pride in her resourcefulness and ingenuity. I, on the other hand, was horrified. It’s like watching someone cook a good cut of steak until it’s a dried up hockey puck of
These past two weeks have been a whirlwind of mango. Yet, all good things must come to an end. As the bombardment of mangoes from my coworker’s overly fertile tree winds down, I am taking a look back at all of the mango goodness that I was able to produce with my seemingly endless stream of
Mango Season continues in full swing! I continue getting generous donations of ripe mangoes from work. It’s been fun experimenting with recipes to incorporate the mango. This mango flan was one such experiment. It turned out to be a success, and someone requested that I give them the recipe. So, here it is!
It’s Mango Season in South Florida! And, at my new job, my coworkers are not stingy about sharing the wealth. We have been getting bags full of mangoes every day from a coworker’s over-productive tree. But, there are only so many mangoes you can eat as is. And, overripe mangoes are plentiful. We were discussing
Skip to Recipe! I am not particularly fond of peanut butter. Maybe it was too many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as a kid. In fact, to me, peanut butter is something that I eat when my calorie counting app tells me that I haven’t eaten enough fat or protein that day. Yet, when done
Skip to Recipe A lot of times, I get asked how I decide which recipes to post on the blog. There is really no specific thought-process that I follow for this sort of thing. However, I’ve noticed that the majority of my most recent recipe posts have followed a pattern. That is, I make something
Skip to Recipe Here it is! The continuation of the strawberry cream cake! So, you should already have your pastry cream made from the previous post. Now, we are going to bake and assemble the cake. The base of the cake is essentially a sponge cake. The recipe comes from an old Cuban cookbook that