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!)
Last Minute Holiday Gift Idea: Vegan Irish Cream Recipe
Category: Recipes
Enjoying a Vacation Tradition at Home: A Review of Le Moné (Plus Three Effortless Apéritifs!)
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 …
Recipe: Pre-Trip Pizza
The easiest way to use up odds and ends from your fridge – and how to get dinner on the table quickly before your trip.
Everything Cookies Recipe
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 …
Five Easy Meals
“What do you want for dinner?” It’s such an innocent-sounding question, even a friendly-sounding one, but you and I both know that’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? …
International Holiday Recipe: Æbleskiver
What on earth is an æbleskiver? I’m so glad you asked! These poppable, spherical, portable little pancakes also known as aebleskiver or ebleskiver 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 …
A Recipe Inspired by a Trip to Belgium: Sugar-Studded 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 …
How to Brew Great Coffee at Home with a Chemex
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 …
Recipe: Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake (Kladdkaka)
*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 …
Travel-Inspired Recipe: New York-Style Bagels
My favorite recipe for fresh, chewy, New York-style bagels (yes, you can make them in your own kitchen!)