This past weekend I found some time to indulge in two of my favorite pastimes. Baseball and baking. The season has finally started and I can’t think of a better way to spend a drizzly gray weekend than watching the Giants play the Dodgers and baking something delicious. I took the morning before the game to head over …
I was up in San Francisco last week and had a bit of time to explore so I headed to the Mission District. My first stop was Tartine Bakery. I order one thing religiously, the lemon cream tart. It is by far the best lemon tart I have ever had. The filling is not your typical …
Hello! This is Jamie! I know I know, it’s been a while, blame the Rice bioengineering department. Don’t worry, I’ve missed you guys, too. I’m currently sitting in the car typing this; it is the first hour of a 12 hour drive back to Houston from Nashville. Okay, I lied. I’m going to be honest, …
A few weeks ago my friend Jane’s daughter was in a terrible car crash in Tahoe. I was in Hawaii when I found out. I felt helpless. After a few days in the intensive care unit and multiple tests they let her go, but not before making the decision to donate her organs as she …
This has been the longest period of time between posts for my fledging blog, I hope you stayed with me. As life is prone to do, it got busy and messy. The first few months of this year has brought joy but also great sorrow (for another post), thankfully we have family and friends to share in …
Is your family like mine? Are you met with a chorus of “Yuks or Ewwws” whenever you serve a salad? Do you have to stop yourself from saying “eat it, it’s good for you” which would only make it worse anyways. Or you return home from the Farmer’s Market with basketful of kale or frisee’ …
I haven’t posted in more than just a few days. It’s not because I have been busy and have pushed my blog to the back burner, nope. I just haven’t been all that enthused about the recipes I have tried lately. Then I thought, I should be posting the good, the bad, and the meh. I …
I’m not that crazy about chocolate and yet in the last few weeks I have baked a chocolate birthday cake, brownies for Jeffrey’s hockey team and today I made a quick and easy chocolate loaf cake I found on Smitten Kitchen. Very disconcerting since I am a vanilla person. Ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent of the …
You know how sometimes you get wrapped up looking for something new or better than what you already have. You get tired of making the same thing and convince yourself that somewhere out there is a version of your tried and true that is tastier and better? The old bait and switch of new and improved? …