I think we’ve all been there. You have all these fanciful daydreams of making impressively difficult French desserts full of precise slight of hand techniques that wouldn’t just make us kitchen magicians if we pulled them off but freaking wizards. Maybe we’d watch a video […]
I have written and rewritten this blog post 5 times. No joke. 5 times. I’ve been trying to write this post since last week. I wrote one post about how much I love the vegan community and how much it bothered me to see vegans […]
We live in a world with rules. Now it may not seem like it because the world rarely follows these rules. Evil often goes unpunished and sometimes the hero doesn’t get the girl but the rules exist nonetheless. Things do happen for a reason and […]
So here it is. My first Monday as cookbook writer. A million years ago when I lived in DC and was going through a really tough time in my life, I snuck away from my terrible situation and went to a photography exhibit of […]
A while back, we welcomed our pizza stone to The Family Shannon. Today, I am very happy to announce another new arrival. Welcome, Ice Cream Maker! I hope you’re ready for a busy summer… because we love ice cream. Many people don’t know this about […]
So, if you’re flipping through your copy of Betty’s Big Red, you aren’t going to find these. They’re kinda an invention of sorts that I pieced together using 3 adapted Betty recipes. I made them for our dear friend Sarah’s birthday, and might have had […]
We recently made a purchase that has changed our mornings for good. And let’s face it: having a better morning can change your life. We got a coffee grinder. Dan has been grinding us fresh coffee every morning, and the difference is just lovely. Now, […]
The other day I posted on Facebook that I was eating “Vegan Shrimp Scampi and watching Desperately Seeking Susan starring 80’s dreamboat Aidan Quinn”. I was in the middle of reliving some bad perms I had back in the day, when my friend and fellow […]
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