OK, let's talk about the actual fun aspects of planning a wedding. On the top of the list there is CAKE TASTING. And then all the rest...

We went to Party Favors in Brookline last night to try their carrot cake with cream cheese filling and their chocolate cake with white chocolate mousse filling. They were delicious! We look through their big books ( Read more... )

In January I took a stab at Alton Brown's recipe for homemade protein bars. They were ok but honestly tasted a lot like chalky/floury protein bars, not delicious and palatable like I wanted them to be.

So after rummaging around for another recipe and reading up A LOT on the benefits of a whole food nutritional bar, I combined several concepts to ( Read more... )

1) Chocolate Chip Blondies

I LOVE this recipe Mel sent me ages ago. I've made it so many times but tweak it at each go around. They always come out moist and sweet. One of my favorite go-to recipes.


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Unsure of what to do with the teeny pears in my CSA share this week, I took smitten kitchen's mom's apple cake and tweaked it a bit to make this delicious apple pear bread bread.


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Last night John and I took a Peruvian Cooking Class at the Boston Center for Adult Education. It was awwwwesome!
I'm so glad we finally did it. It took a bunch of scheduling (and then waiting) but it was totally worth it. Our class was small and the instructor was very knowledgeable and skilled at this type of cooking/cuisine. We learned a ton and ( Read more... )

I recently saw the episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown tackles his own homemade protein/energy bar (Power Trip, first aired in 2005). Serpico and I, both watching at our respective houses, texted each other immediately: "WE HAVE TO MAKE THESE!" (meaning the protein bars, we're dorks). Anyways, I anticipated not being able to find most of the ( Read more... )

I saw the recipe for Key Lime Meltaways yesterday on my favorite foodie blog smittenkitchen.com and since it was rainy and gray out, I went home after work and whipped up my own batch.

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On Sunday John and I drove from his mom's in Cranford, NJ to NYC to go on our very first Scott's Pizza Tour around the city.

First we went to Lombardi's (tour starts here on Spring Street) because of it's pizz-significance. Everyone else who owned/started other pizzerias in NYC at the time were all trained/apprenticed at Lombardi's first. Lombardi ( Read more... )