Tip #21 from The Muffin Lady: “To avoid wasting the delicious vegan chocolate icing (chocolate + tofu) caked onto your immersion blender, immediately make a smoothie with strawberries and soy milk, so the chocolate gets washed into the smoothie!” Yeahhhhh.
Author Archives: Adrienne
Cool summer
It’s summer, and I’m going to state the obvious: it’s hot. Summer means feeling the balmy wind on my legs, my face sticky with watermelon juice, and bright evenings filled with potential. It has an expansiveness and sense of promise that only sunshine and heat can invite. Still, sometimes, I yearn for winter. I …
I heart immersion blender
Immersion blender, you’re the best,The way you blend I can’t protest,Smoothies, soups, purees and more,Why did I not have one before? I loooove my new immersion blender. My big boxy blender broke a few weeks ago, and it was a blessing in disguise. $19.99+tax later, I have a delightful new immersion blender that puts my …
tip 43.
Tip #43 from The Muffin Lady: “People will have no choice but to like you if you give them a layered cake in a jar.” Truer words were never said.
Enjoyment, within reason
Brave New World. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Fahrenheit 451. Dystopian fiction paints a picture of a world that is not, but very well could be, if power were placed in the hands of the unjust and unreasonable. A gourmand’s dystopia would be one where all food was abolished, and all we needed were “nutrients”: a little pill …
muffins with hats.
Muffins wearing little hats = cupcakes!
Tough times
It is with sheepish hesitation that I admit that I don’t follow the news that closely. The topics are rather disconcerting; on the off occasion that I read a news article, it usually results in me dissolving into a crumpled heap, weeping because the world appears hopeless and just plain mean. Of course, this is …
camping feasts.
Camping = beans + sausage + Hello Kitty pasta
Oink oink
In a previous life I worked two summers for a local baking company at their production facility – they specialized in hand-finished cakes, cookies, tarts, and other tempting treats. I learned many things over those months: how to create busyness for myself when no one else would, how to divert the flirtatious advances of boys …
Go getter
Ah, spring. A time for sticking your head out of the ground under which you have burrowed for the winter to sniff at the air. And what does it smell like, my woodland creature? Change. While a part of me would rather give a dirty look to those green shoots coming out of the …