I walked into work at the start of the Christmas season to a break room with eight kinds of cookies.
I had a little too many for breakfast, but that didn’t stop me from more cookies in the Christmas future. Continue Reading
The Cookie season
#dessert
I want cookies
I’ve done a lot of food shopping lately and my stash at home is limited only to chocolate bars so I needed to make some cookies.
I had all kinds of nuts, chips, baking coconut, oats and peanut butter so there was no reason not to have a different kind of dessert.
Big cream puff
So this weekend I decided to try out the Asian bakery in the Japanese supermarket.
The bakery is called Beard Papa’s (because silly Asian names) and they have cream puffs bigger than your fist that are almost always sold out.
Woodblock Chocolate
So I have this friend who has recently moved here from the East Coast and wants to try all the tasty Portland things.
Woodblock Chocolate company is one of them, and all I knew of them is that they make great cocoa nibs that I have in my pantry.
But apparently they are a store and you can watch them make chocolate.
For once a good rasmalai
Rasmalai is one Indian sweet I have never particularly liked.
The ones I have had, from America and India never quite excited me.
Hazelnut obsession
The beauty of this float is that it grew out of other decadent hazelnut desserts that I have made this week.
And had me sounding like a stoner just imagining the tastiness at the Fred Meyer.
Let me explain……
My first cheescake
…….needed a ton of cream cheese apparently.
Inspired by a book about booze cakes and having Oreos and berries still at home, I decided to make a cheesecake.
Spicy salted cookies
I’ve been chillin’ with my friends a lot lately so that means I went to Salem again.
One of my friends cooked dinner, which was gourmet broccoli salad, pulled pork with brioche buns and sweet bbq sauce.
Dirt cup upgrade
I’m back to childhood American classic desserts (or late night college snacks for finals week, at least that’s what my college did).
I’ve also kind of fallen off the healthy food wagon a bit which I think is mostly due to my bachelorette status. Continue Reading
The irony of pie
I still have bags of berries in my freezer. And the only occasion to make a pie this week was to bring it to a showing of Keanu Reeves’ “47 Ronin,” with my other two friends.