... and bakes and mixes the occasional cocktail!
This Basil Infused Vodka is extremely easy to make and tastes and smells great. Plus, it makes an excellent addition to summery cocktails. Basil, to me, represents summertime. I can’t taste or smell basil without thinking about summer. Every year, I always make sure to grow lots of it. Even when I only had a…
This Chia Seed Jam is made with a medley of berries--in this case, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries. It tastes like fruit, and nothing but. Probably because it's made of almost ...
This Chicken Ropa Vieja is so great for so many reasons. It's super flavorful without being fussy in any way. It's super versatile, too: serve it on its own, over rice, in a taco, and so on. The last ...
Since the weather is warming up, I've had to trade my morning mug of hot tea for homemade iced chai lattes. I usually consume my morning caffeine at my desk at work, right after I get there. However, ...
These Garlic and Rosemary Roasted Potatoes provide so much reward in return for very little effort. They make a wonderful side dish--we love to eat them alongside grilled flank steak. Although I've ...
These Pomegranate Margaritas are tart, not too sweet, and would be perfect for sipping on Cinco de Mayo. Although, now that I'm looking at these photos again, I think they'd make a pretty fantastic ...
This Pasta all'Amatriciana takes me right back to our trip to Italy. I can vividly remember sitting across from Sean in a small Roman restaurant, eating this pasta. This is one of the things that I ...
