Category: Recipes

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Last Minute Holiday Gift Idea: Vegan Irish Cream Recipe

Two images: vegan Irish cream being poured into a funnel, and Alyssa holding a glass of the beverage

A recipe for homemade, plant-based Irish Cream – you won’t believe how easy it is to make (and your friends don’t need to know!)

Food, Home, Recipes

Enjoying a Vacation Tradition at Home: A Review of Le Moné (Plus Three Effortless Apéritifs!)

Alyssa sits outdoors with a cocktail

The pre-dinner drink ritual is one Michael and I often indulge in when we are traveling, and though it takes a different form (and name) in different countries, it’s always a memorable experience. A chilly Paloma in a crowded cantina in Mexico City, an Aperol Spritz and a plate of cicchetti along the canals of …

Food, Recipes

Everything Cookies Recipe

Two images of a white woman standing in front of an oven holding a tray of cookies

If you scroll back through the Recipes section of this website, you’ll mostly find dishes inspired by my travels. Bagels from New York, chocolate cake from Sweden, pancakes from Denmark, waffles from Belgium, pistachio ice cream from Italy… Are you sensing a theme here? I love bread and I have a major sweet tooth. But …

Food, Home, Recipes

Five Easy Meals

A white woman's hand stirs udon noodles in a reddish sauce with wooden tongs

“What do you want for dinner?” It’s such an innocent-sounding question, even a friendly-sounding one, but you and I both know it’s a loaded question. Are you asking me to try to guess what you’re in the mood for? Are you asking me to cook? Are you thinking of getting takeout? Who’s picking the spot? …

Denmark, Food, Recipes

International Holiday Recipe: Æbleskiver

A plate of aebleskiver with powdered sugar on top

What on earth is an æbleskiver? I’m so glad you asked! These poppable, spherical, portable little pancakes are dangerous – both in the “you’re definitely going to eat too many” way and also the “you’re probably going to burn yourself at some point during the making process” way. But they are worth it. A quick …

Belgium, Food, Recipes

A Recipe Inspired by a Trip to Belgium: Sugar-Studded Liege Waffles

A tray of liege waffles

While in Belgium recently, I can’t even begin to tell you how much time Michael and I spent hunched over our phones, searching for “Best Liege waffles in *current Belgian city*,” which is probably good because it would really be an embarrassing number calculated in hours, not minutes. All in search of an ultimately elusive …

Food, Home, Recipes

How to Brew Great Coffee at Home with a Chemex

Alyssa holds a cup of coffee in this top down photo

You hear it all the time and it’s essentially the first pillar of financial literacy: Your $5 daily latte habit adds up to $1,825 annually—imagine what you could do with all of that extra money! Would you believe that in the not-so-distant past, I used to go to Starbucks every day? Me? The gal who …

Food, Recipes, Sweden

Recipe: Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake (Kladdkaka)

A sticky chocolate cake with whipped cream

*Infomercial voice* Do you like brownies? Do you like making brownies? Do you like making brownies because you get to lick the spoon, and sometimes you “accidentally” are bad at scraping the contents of your mixing bowl into the pan so you can eat more batter out of the bowl?* Because if you’re the kind …