In a dream world, my daughters would have gone back to baking school in a lush Yorkshire garden this week not elementary and middle school tucked into the back of a corporate park’s asphalt parking lot. Instead, because their lives are not being lived #1) in Britain or #2) in […]
It would be easy for me to throw open the front door each weekday morning from mid-August to mid-June and send my daughters off to the bus stop with no more effort required than an honest smile and a gentle wave of my right hand. I don’t do this though, […]
You know as well as I do that you need a new silicone whisk and a fab colorful muffin pan. So why not refresh your kitchen gadget collection with a sugary sweet zulily’s baking sales event featuring me and my extremely photogenic daughters! Of course it’d be rad if you […]
Rosewater spray, an ocean of wavy dark brown curls and eyelashes with more drama than a contrived soap opera actress. All real. A stiff as starch white button up shirt, two dresses and one denim vest. All real. Hysterical laughter, pink frosting on noses, and dad and daughter memories that […]
“Looks like I picked a bad week to start binge eating hummus.” My fake Airplane! quote aside, I’m not really the paranoid type by nature but it is breaking news like the Sabra Hummus recall that reminds me how much I don’t really (or shouldn’t as much) trust the industrial […]
I like bananas. I love Nutella. I’m always up for a muffin. But I haven’t tasted a crumb of these Banana Nutella Muffins. Why? Because on the morning I made them, I’d just run 5-miles and didn’t want to ‘waste’ the effort. Did I have a spoonful of Nutella with […]
I didn’t want to be a veterinarian. I was too afraid of a fastball once it started to actually travel fast to step into a batter’s box for a living. The idea of being a race car driver never appealed to me. My fat fingers and complete lack of rhythm […]
I’m the type of guy who’ll wake up at 7am on a idyllic Sunday morning and lie in bed for a few minutes thinking about the ingredient potential in his kitchen, specifically the 2 sticks of unsalted butter and 1/4 cup of heavy cream that remain in his fridge, ghosts […]
