Austin Bakes for West!

You like baked goods and good causes, right? Well, if you live in (and/or will be in) the Austin area tomorrow, then let’s make plans for you! Austin Bakes has organized a city-wide bake sale at...

2013 Austin City Guide: East Side Restaurants

While I don’t usually write review posts, this is my contribution to the 2013 AFBA City Guide. If you are heading to Austin this year or live here and want to find some new places to eat, please...

Wordless Wednesday: Lunch at Sway

Yesterday I had lunch at the new fancy Thai place in Austin with Julie and Mary Helen. There were large, communal tables. pok pok som – tamarind drinking vinegar with sparkling water green curry...

Daring Bakers’ Challenge: Gevulde Speculaas!

Francijn of Koken in de Brouwerij was our January 2013 Daring Bakers’ Hostess and she challenged us to make the traditional Dutch pastry, Gevulde Speculaas from scratch! That includes making our...

Wordless Wednesday: Motivational Sprinkles

NaBloPoMo Musings

Oh, hi. Remember me? Sorry I spammed your inbox/RSS/etc. for a month. Maybe we all needed a break after that. Honestly, I kind of miss NaBloPoMo and the forced purpose it gave me as a blogger. I...

Wordless Wednesday: Don’t Blink

Taken at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Smitten Signing

Deb Perelman (aka the blogger behind Smitten Kitchen) came to BookPeople today in Austin! She did a Q&A and then a signing for her new cookbook. So many books… The event was scheduled for 7:00pm,...

Movember: Chocolate ‘Stache Cookies!

I still remember that day. Five years ago, a friend and I were driving back to D.C. from an audition in Raleigh. Neither of us had advanced. It was late in the afternoon and the sun was shining...

Wordless Wednesday: Warm Hearts

Trailer Food Tuesdays

Anyone who has ever been to Austin knows that there is a serious mobile food situation in this town. I couldn’t tell you how many food trucks or even food truck parks there are around here. This...

Don’t feed the pack rats.

I think it’s safe to say that this is only 1/4 of the boxes. Four years ago, I moved from Cleveland to San Antonio. One year ago, I moved from San Antonio to Austin. Several hours ago, I finally...

HOPE for veggies

Yesterday I ate the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers. Good riddance! Today was a new day that required fresh veggies. Luckily the HOPE Farmers Market was open despite it being a holiday weekend!...

Joy and Cookies

There’s this story that I’ve been meaning to tell you, but then it felt like the time had passed. But then when you’re blogging every day for a month, anything becomes game! Five months ago, I met...

T-Day Success!

This year my sister and brother-in-law hosted Thanksgiving at their house and I helped make a few things! My parents, grandma, and three year-old niece were also in attendance, so it was a pretty...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, my fellow ‘Mericans! Tomorrow I’ll post about what my family feasted on, but for now it’s time to sleep it off.

Wordless Wednesday: Stripes

Anx(p)iety

So I may be making some pie for Thanksgiving. Could you tell? While I stress about all that could go wrong, allow me to leave you with this gem: “Choosing between a metal pie pan and a glass or...

E.A.S.T. in Photos

Yesterday was the last day of the East Austin Studio Tour and I checked some of it out during the final hours. I didn’t actually notice the wheels until editing this photo. The only thing I knew to...

Thanksgiving (un)Preparedness

“Wait…Thanksgiving is next week?? I thought it was the last Thursday of the month!” -me, five days ago. (Apparently it’s the fourth Thursday, which is usually also the last Thursday, but not...

Bucket List of Eats & Drinks!

I don’t eat out very often mainly because I like to cook my own food and save money. However, I do really enjoy exploring the city with out-of-town friends and will often run into the problem of...

Oatmeal Buttermilk Bread

I’m a little bit stubborn, and am paying for it today. My lovely mixer is actually my dad’s, but since his bread-baking phase ended years ago, I’m “borrowing” it. Sometime before the adoption, the...

Happy National Bundt Day 2012!

Zebra Bundt Cake - still my favorite thing, ever. As much as I love food, I’ll be the first to admit that food holidays are kind of silly. There was one the other day that was something like...

Wordless Wednesday: Anticipation

Ridding Rust

iPhone photo gone bad! womp, womp. Even though I’m on Pinterest, it looks like all I want is a drink. I still haven’t let myself get into it, aside from a recent search for Halloween and tattoo...

Mocha Meringue Stars

These meringues were initially a happy accident. I don’t remember if we had leftover egg whites or what, but my friend Jill and I decided to make meringues one night a couple years ago. A google...

24th Annual Lone Star Vegetarian Chili Cook-Off!

Today in Austin, the 24th Annual Lone Star Vegetarian Chili Cookoff took place at the Burnet Road Farmers Market. If you’re from Texas, you may wonder what exactly goes into vegetarian chili when...

St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

Don’t you hate it when you find out about something that you should have done or tried at a particular place after you’ve been there? This pretty much sums up how gooey butter cake came into my...

Blogger Guilt

Blogging is a funny thing, especially when you do it as a hobby. It’s just for fun, right? Then why do I feel guilty when I haven’t been able to muster up a real interest in Google+? (Don’t worry,...

Pumpkin Yeast Waffles

Have you ever had yeast waffles? I hadn’t until eating at 24 Diner with friends this past summer. It was like having beer in waffle form! And with brown sugar butter! I have never smoked pot, but...