This delicious pound cake has been sponsored by Aiya America, who inspires my matcha Christmas creations year after year. I used to be firmly in the cookie camp, but this year I've got to say that my new favorite Christmas dessert is actually pound cake. Specifically, a dense, moist, and sweet pound cake that's drizzled...
Honey Lemon Chiffon Pie
Well I'll bee damned. I've gotta tell you, I said "this probably isn't going to turn out" to myself at least 17 times as I made this pie. But much to my surprise, the bees wound up looking like bees, the honeycomb pattern looked like honeycomb, the filling set to an awesome consistency, and the Honey...
Matcha Cookie Christmas Tree Stacks
It's an exciting day of firsts for me. This is my first post I've written since moving (to my first place I've rented away from home since college), of my first time using matcha in baked goods. I never thought these Matcha Cookie Christmas Tree Stacks would turn out so perfectly on my first go, but what do you know? It's a...
Indian Spiced Rice & Lentil Salad
Last year, I discovered that rice salad was an amazingly wonderful thing. It's replaced pasta salad as my favorite binge-on-at-barbecues-until-the-shame-kicks-in dish. Actually, being perfectly honest, shame doesn't even stop me most of the time. I will eat rice salad until I can't physically get up to get more. You think I'm exaggerating, don't you? It...
Nut-Crusted Fried Brie Bites
I don't know about you, but I feel like there is not nearly enough cheese in the traditional Thanksgiving spread. Cheese, in all of its variations, definitely makes my "Grateful For:" list every year. As a result, I put cheese in my mashed potatoes, cheese in my dessert, and used warm, buttery, melted cheese as...
