Recipes

The owner of the company I work for is someone I have known for 16 years. He’s Italian and I was surprised…

This is an old school recipe from one of my vintage German cookbooks. What’s great about it is it’s simple to mix…

When I was in Turkey this past September I managed to make to to my favorite place to buy Turkish Delight. These…

I still have waaay too many bits and pieces of nuts and dried fruits left over and crammed in my cabinets from…

Are you recovered from the festivities and the season? Me, I am simply celebrating getting off the looong holiday party train. I…

Here are some cookies, (not very original I might add) that are accompanying me to a big New Year’s Eve bash.  For…

Photo By Icarus Blake One of my jobs working at a small digital creative agency is acting as Managing Editor of Citizen…

Here’s the last (for this year) in the series of my three country Christmas Market Visits from a few years ago. From…

As promised I am back with another past Christmas market stop on my big three country tour from a few years ago.…

A few years ago Bernhard could not come home  from Iraq for Christmas. I decided to distract myself with taking a Christmas…

I am in Miami at Art Basel. There are few traces of holiday cheer here only the insane hype circus that surrounds…

Really? A Thanksgiving cookie post? How lame am I? Don’t answer any of those questions. The month whizzed by with less and…

December 1st is World AIDS Day. Back before I was blogging about baking. I was a food blog stalker. Admit it, many…

This is a cheater post because I made these macarons last year. They’ve languished in my drafts box all year waiting for…

Fence at my mom’s house in a NY coastal town. I got Sandy-ed in two states people. I am fine and so…

Here’s some glam goth cupcake-ness for Halloween. As most bakers know, creative inspiration comes anywhere, anytime.  Recently I was on  a veeery long…

A few weeks ago when I was in Turkey I took a break from work to make a small side trip to…

These were made last fall but never posted purely out of feet phobia. For French macarons, they are a bit on the…

These were a birthday surprise for a colleague. Her name is Tiffany so how could I resist making the cupcake embodiment of…

I just returned a week ago from a business trip to Turkey. There was a lot of business and  then some time…