A couple weeks back, Jhuls over at thenotsocreativecook nominated me for the Sunshine Award - thanks so much Jhuls! It always brightens my day to hear that someone enjoys reading my blog. The rules for the award are as follows: 1. Include the Sunshine Award icon in your post. 2. Link back to the blogger who nominated you. 3. Answer 10 questions about yourself. 4. Nominate 10 other bloggers ...
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Chicken Kapama
Chicken kapama (pronounced kah-pah-MAH) is a tomato-based Greek stew, often flavored with red wine and cinnamon. I first had this dish when I was on an excavation in Greece one summer during college. We were staying in a very small town with only about four hundred residents, and we ate lunch at the same restaurant every day. As you can imagine, eating from the same menu every day for six weeks ...
Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cranberry Streusel
Today I baked these cupcakes to give away to some of my parents’ neighbors, and because filling the house with the fragrant scent of gingerbread seemed like a great way to get more into the holiday spirit – I only finished my work for the semester yesterday, and it’s always difficult for me to be fully in holiday mode while I’m still writing papers and such. ...
Sweet Potato Dog Biscuits with Peanut Butter Banana “Icing”
I was beginning to feel really guilty about cooking and baking all sorts of things and constantly telling the puppy that none of it was for her, so I finally got around to making her some baked goods of her very own. While I’d like to think that she enjoys these exponentially more than she enjoys pre-packaged store-bought biscuits and that she can taste my love for her baked into them, in reality, ...
Lemon Poppy Seed Cupcakes
As much as I love chocolate, I tend to gravitate toward fruitier desserts in the summertime. Let me tell you how this seasonal preference might have actually saved my dog’s life (or at least saved her a tummyache). ...