My most recent cake undertaking was a wedding cake for the wedding of my cousin, Stephanie, and her husband, Aaron. For the shape of the cake they had the somewhat unusual request of a shaped cake in the form of a large mushroom. After taking a
This year it looks like I will be visiting friends and family out of town for Thanksgiving, so I won’t be engaging in the same extravagance of cooking I usually do. While I’m sure I have a few new recipies for you in the next few weeks, here are a few
When the weather turns on you, nothing is more comforting than a hot bowl of soup. Growing up in Seattle, we had an abundance of two things: cold weather and great seafood. While seafood is off my radar now, sometimes you want a hearty bowl of something
Recently the folks at Chicago Soy Dairy were kind enough to send out some samples of their tasty vegan cheese, Teese, to those of us in the vegan blogosphere to see what we could come up with outside of the usual pizza or lasagna. Here is the
Long before small plates became all the rage in contemporary restaurants the Chinese were serving up a parade of pint size dishes for dim sum. While I have always been a big fan of dim sum it is rarely a vegan friendly affair, and since the one