Happy new year! Happy new year! Happy new year! Happy new year!

[clears throat] Okay, a happy new year to you. When I woke up this morning, I decided I should do something nice to start the new year. That turned out to be make pancakes or crepes for my family. I just made crepes for myself two weeks ago, so I decided on pancakes for the ( Read more... )

The other week I had people over for brunch. Actually, they come over pretty early in the morning, so let's call it breakfast. Regardless, I love having people over, and it had been about a month since my last meal guests ate (dumb school work always getting in my way). Anyway, I decided to make my classic breakfast dishes -- a frittata and ( Read more... )

Usually when I tell people I'm craving Peanut Butter Soup, they look at me as though I'm crazy. First, I don't even like Peanut Butter. Second, "Peanut butter as the basis for soup?!" they exclaim. Peanut Butter Soup seems perfectly natural to me. It (aka: Peanut Soup) is fairly common in West Africa, and seeing as both my parents are from ( Read more... )

To put it lightly, this is pretty much the best dessert I've ever made. EVER. I know I said the Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies were amazing, and the Apple Pie Cookies were pretty good too. With those desserts, I think I said that they were so good, I felt sorry for the people who couldn't enjoy them with me. With this cheesecake, I didn't ( Read more... )

To end my week off, I decided to have a tea and cake party. I was itching to bake something sweet, and inviting people over was the only way to justify baking an entire cake. Since my apartment's not that big, I still wouldn't be inviting too many people over, and needed a dessert with about 8-10 servings. Enter the Chocolate Loaf Layer Cake I' ( Read more... )

Slow Cooker Chicken & Dumplings. It seemed easy and tasty enough. The reviews said, "better than my grandmother's homemade recipe." 2,676 reviews and an average allrecipes.com rating of 4.5 of 5 stars. I was disappointed in the finished product.

To be honest, I halved the amount of chicken and biscuits called for, and used a can of cream of ( Read more... )

It was once again my turn to make dessert for the weekly Christian Business Students meeting. I had planned to take a chocolate loaf cake, split into three layers, and frosted with a fudgy chocolate frosting, but in a conversation with a friend the day prior to the meeting, I was convinced to take something "seasonal"; that is, to take something ( Read more... )

A couple years ago, I visited Top Secret Recipes once a week.  The site has "clones" of restaurant recipes for a fee, and once a week, they post a new recipe.  It'd used to be this recipe was free for one week, but now only about 1/5 of the featured weekly recipes are free.  And so I have stopped frequenting the site.

The chili recipe below came ( Read more... )

I don't really like apple pie, but I do really like cookies. Apple pie (well, all pie) has that crust I don't enjoy. When I saw the Apple Pie Cookies Recipe, though, I was up for the challenge ( Read more... )

Last week I found my fridge and cupboards to be somewhat lacking.  Okay, terribly lacking.  All I had was uncooked rice, uncooked macaroni noodles, cereal, milk, shredded cheddar cheese, margarine, a bag of frozen mixed vegetables, and some frozen chicken breasts.  Of course I also had spices, flour, and sugars.  And I was starving.  I think I'd ( Read more... )