So, as it turns out, I’ve always been a foodie at heart. My mother recently stumbled upon a an intriguing find from 1984…. My first written recipe. For FIG BARS. Yummy. I was a fan of Fig Newtons as a kid, so my guess is that’s where the inspiration stemmed…
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned how cool it was that I got selected to be one of 100 people across the country to host a POM Dinner Party. Two crates and 40 pomegranates later, my dinner party was a wild success, and the guests are still talking about…
What do headbands and wedding cake have in common? Two words: KERRY VINCENT. (Food Network Challenge judge and master sugar artist, in case you didn’t know.) Kerry Vincent truly deserves a lot of credit in the sugar arts industry and she has received a bunch of well-earned accolades. Just to…
This weekend kicked off what is promising to be a busy fall full of parties, weddings, and celebration. It seems like nothing big has happened in our circle of friends for about a year, and now it appears that things are changing. Saturday evening we first stopped in at an…
Yesterday I spent the afternoon with three high school friends that I hadn’t seen in 15 years. We met at Great Falls (the Maryland side) and spent two hours catching up over a modest picnic of trail mix, chocolate chip cookies, and fresh farmers’ market peaches. I hadn’t been there…
Inevitably, we always end up with a bunch of bananas on the counter that are over-ripe. There are many different ways you can use them: banana muffins, banana pudding, banana cream pie, banana pancakes. All of these get better the riper the banana. By far, my favorite recipe to use…