Our Share of the Harvest

I wanted to make whoopie pies.  Cute little heart-shaped whoopie pies.  Because I may be the last food blogger to hold out on making whoopie pies (I haven’t made cakeballs either–gasp!) and I need to get back on-trend.  Too bad for me because when all was said and done, I ended up with wafers–crisp, light [...]

Have you ever bought a gift for a friend and you look at it day in and day out, just sitting there on your dining room table, and pretty soon you just want to keep it for yourself? Yes, I kept it for myself (but I bought her something even more fitting so I’m not [...]

Everyone knows that the only wedding favors anyone really appreciates are edibles so when Greg and I got married we planned to offer boxes of truffles.  Except, we’re cheap and I like cooking so the first time I ever made truffles was when my mom and I made 400 of them 3 days before the [...]

Of course a Valentine-inspired dessert buffet begs for chocolate-covered strawberries but I thought that was too cliche.  So when I did a search for chocolate-covered cherries, I got a lot of recipes for maraschino cherries. And that’s a problem because maraschino cherries creep me out. Let’s consider the title of this blog.  When you think [...]

For Easter of 2004, my college roommate Noelle wasn’t going home so she came to my family’s celebration which includes a full-on Easter egg hunt with money in each egg.  The family gets fueled by decades of competition but it was a miserable, rainy crappy day and after a few minutes, Noelle decided to wait [...]