Guys, do you know what I love? Those little plastic snack containers at Trader Joe’s. You know the ones I’m talking about — the buckets filled with peanut butter cups, candied peanuts, and chocolate-covered almonds. My personal favorite are the buckets filled with chocolate-covered sunflower seeds: I’m not exaggerating when I say I […]
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Black & White Cookies
Although I’m a “West Coast is the Best Coast!” kinda gal, I will say that there are some things that the East Coast does far better than the West. New York, of course, holds the throne with its superior bagels, cheesecake, and deli cuisine. A deli staple that you seldom find out west is […]
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Guys, I have been swept up into Olympic fever. This post nearly didn’t get written today because of it. I turned on the TV to watch the Olympics, only to find that the men’s 10,000m final was on. No problem, I thought. I could bake my crinkle cookies, take photos, and blog with the race […]
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Dark Chocolate Oatmeal Lace Florentines
One of my biggest grievances about Colorado is that the state does not have any Trader Joe’s supermarkets. I basically lived off of Trader Joe’s frozen food in college… well, okay, definitely for several years after college too. But perhaps nothing could match my love for their plastic buckets filled with snacks. Trader Joe’s Chocolate […]
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Orange Madeleines with a Honey-Orange Glaze
So, remember in my last post, I was able to adapt i am a food blog‘s recipe for Earl Grey madeleines by panicking and changing the oven temperature halfway through baking time? Well, I spent the last week playing around with the recipe’s temperature to see if I could get a more accurate high-altitude adjustment. […]
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i am a food blog’s Earl Grey Madeleines, High-Altitude Style
When I was living in San Francisco, I used to work a few blocks away from a Daiso. The best way to describe Daiso is that it’s the Japanese take on a dollar-store — most items in the store are from Japan and cost about a dollar, and you can find a wide variety of […]
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