Cinnamon Cookies

Now that airlines don’t serve complimentary meals in-flight anymore, us passengers have become hard-pressed for even the slightest bit of sustenance on a cross-country flight. You’d be lucky to land a couple bags of peanuts and a small cup of something to drink. And if you’re flying American Airlines, you’d have to be a celebrity [...]

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

Peanut butter and jelly. The American classic. There was one semester in college when I lived almost entirely off of PB&J sandwiches. I know a lot of people swear by grape jelly with their peanut butter, but I simply love strawberry in any form, so strawerry jelly is the way to go for me.
Recently I [...]

Summer BBQing

Summers in San Francisco are hardly summer-like compared to the rest of the country. Living in the Bay Area means mild to chilly temps all year long. But every once in a while we get blessed with a streak of beautiful, warm-but-not-too-warm weather. The weekend of the 4th of July happened to fall on one [...]

Mango Crumb Cake

The problem with trying out some brand new recipes is that you never know quite what you’re going to get. I’ve had a recipe for Peach Crumb Cake for a long time now, but have never gotten around to making it for this reason or that. I normally don’t go out of my way for [...]

Silver Dollar Pancakes

Ah hello, precariously stacked pancakes! Slathered with butter, oozing with maple syrup, pillowy soft, what is there not to love about you? Oh yeah! The fact that you’re barely bigger than a strawberry. How cute, you’ve won my heart. And my stomach.