If you’re new here and you’ve been enjoying yourself, I’m sorry to inform you that I’m one of those freaky people who does cleanses. But I promise I never burn patchouli and I do my best to shower regularly. (You’ll have to remind me sometime to tell you about this one horrific colonic I had. And until then your imagination… Read more →
Category: kitchinspiration
Kitchinspiration: Orange French Toast
My Dad can really cook. Like, REALLY cook. As a kid I just kind of thought that that was what food tasted like. But as an adult I have learned that NO, in fact, not everyone can make food taste that good. Perhaps the crowning jewel in his arsenal is French Toast. I know, I know…how hard is it to make… Read more →
White Chocolate Swirl Salted Matzo with Coconut and Hopefully None of My Drool.
Passover is upon us yet again and Delilah and I wanted to make some springtime goodies for her teachers and the nice ladies in the preschool office. Dee and I have decadent palates, so here’s what we came up with… Kosher, crazy delicious and kind of shockingly addictive for a passover treat. The chocolate under all that delicious coconut is… Read more →
Hanukkah Is My Jam
It’s kind of sad to be a Jewish kid around the Holidays. Even in LA and NY where I’ve spent the bulk of my youth and it’s easy enough to feel like Jews are the majority instead of a mere 2% of the US population, the Christmas machine relegates Hanukkah to a marginalized afterthought faster than you can say Hava… Read more →
Laissez Fare: Quinoa Hot Cereal in Your Rice Cooker
I’ve always had a habit of finding a food I like and then eating it obsessively until I can no longer stand the sight of it (hello, everything on the menu at DOJO my freshman year of college). That’s kind of what happened with me and quinoa. Until today, when I accidentally discovered that I could make Quinoa Hot Cereal… Read more →
[re] Create
It’s weird when you lose control. Because once you let go? It’s almost like you don’t remember what it felt like to hold on. Depression is a chameleon. That’s part of it’s charm. It almost never looks the same, which makes it all that much easier to feel like you’re completely alone. Or at least…for me anyway. There goes that… Read more →
Splatterpaint Popcorn DIY [With Video!]
I learn something new every time I attempt to commit myself to video. This time I learned that it is straight silly to attempt to video blog while you’re sick, in front of a plate glass window in glaring sunshine, while trying not to wake up your sleeping family. I also learned that once I edit something, it doesn’t matter… Read more →
Kitchinspiration: Chocolate Egg Rolls
About six years ago my friend Marcos and I spent several months in Vancouver for work. There was this burger place in between our two apartments that we’d go to for dinner (or breakfast, or lunch…being on location is kind of a sad existence…) and they had this holiday dessert special that would be forever burned into my mind. The… Read more →
Kitchinspiration: Thanksgiving Leftover Muffins
So, I didn’t have the forethought to take good “during” photos for you, but a couple of hours ago, staring into my refrigerator, I’m pretty sure I had a stroke of culinary genius. (Or Bakerary Genius. Are they the same?) Sitting there on the second shelf? Leftover pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce…but no mashed potatoes or turkey to go with… Read more →
Whiskey, White Chocolate, and a Crock Pot.
Once upon a time, my friend Jen said that nothing good could come from a crock pot. But I said that wasn’t true, because I had a recipe {from my Dad} for a White Chocolate Whiskey Bread Pudding that was so delicious it would blow her face clean off. Jen is a smart lady. She agreed that such a recipe,… Read more →