I grew up in a very divided household. My dad loves tomatoes and thus tomato sauce- saucy, chunky, bubbling on the stove for hours sauce. On the other hand, my mom tends to go lighter for her pasta dishes- barely there, just a hint of flavor, takes five minutes to make sauce. I was never…
Author: Anna Padilla
Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream & Chives
This is my dad’s favorite summer side dish. My summer dinner memories are studded with it- my mom giving me the kitchen shears and asking me to run outside, my bare feet burning on the hot walkway to the cool grass, to pick chives. Barbecue chicken with corn and cucumber salad. Marinated flank steak with…
Zucchini Bread
With her tan gardening gloves on and trowel in hand, I follow my mom around our gardening boxes. We toss cherry tomatoes in our mouths, warm from the sun and popping with juice. She shows me which onions are ready to pick for dinner and we bend down together to smell her basil plant. And…
Cream Cheese Frosting
My favorite frosting. Sweet, tangy and can go on basically anything. If I am choosing between two desserts on the day and one has cream cheese frosting and the other doesn’t, it can truly be the deciding factor. So here is a basic to add to your recipe box. Cream cheese frosting is impossible to…
Blueberry Cobbler Ice Cream (No-Churn)
I bought a ticket on the no-churn ice cream train and let me tell you, I am here to stay. Not only is this method a huge bang for your buck but more importantly, you are in charge of the flavors. I know we all have our favorites (Chunky Monkey, Häagen-Dazs Coffee, Buckeye Fever from…
Easy Lemon Poppyseed Glaze
Okay so I feel like it is against the rules for me to be a baking blogger and hate frosting cakes. When I was younger I would make a cake for anyone’s and everyone’s birthday. I would day dream of what they would look like, the layers, the piping, the perfectly smooth icing. But it…
Blueberry Cobbler
A seasonal dessert is bittersweet. You crave it in December but know you have to wait till July. Kind of like when you want to wear that cute new sweater but it’s still early September and you know it deserves a better debut than sweating in it all day. Waiting all year for the month…
Blueberry Shortcake Bars
These bars are proving once again that the simplest bakes with the fewest ingredients are usually the tastiest bakes. Blueberry Shortcake Bars are the sibling to one of my favorites on my blog- Strawberry Rhubarb Shortcake– and they might give it a run for its money. This recipe is blueberry cobbler in bar form- no…
Lemon & Thyme Shortbread
The more I bake with lemon the more I am convinced that it might be better than chocolate. I almost erased that sentence as I wrote it but I think it’s true. Well for now. Wait until I am writing about a brownie. My herb garden-more like my herb corner- on my apartment balcony is…
Raspberry Ricotta Cake
If I had a signature bake, this would be it. It has been a staple for who knows how long now and it is a fit for any occasion or season. I wish I could take credit for it’s invention but it all goes to Bon Appétit. May I present, the Raspberry Ricotta Cake. This…
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