Dessert

Avocado Honey Ice Cream

Avocado honey ice cream makes a perfect summer treat, especially because it doesn’t require turning on the oven or using the stove, and only takes a few minutes to whip together.

Creamy sweet cold avocado pops make a fantastic treat on days when temperatures have you wishing for an ice bath to cool you off. You only need 4 ingredients and less than 5 minutes to them whip up before they go into the freezer to set. Easy, right?

A few days ago I made some strawberry shortcake with mascarpone cream to celebrate National Strawberry Shortcake Day. National Strawberry Shortcake Day is actually today (June 14th), but we just arrived in Japan yesterday, and so I thought we’d do our celebrating early while I still had access to my kitchen!

Confetti cake baked doughnuts topped with a light vanilla glaze are a fun twist on confetti cake—the fluffy white or yellow cake studded with flecks of color that is a popular choice for a child’s birthday cake.

As a stay-at-home mom, I’m usually the one baking cakes, cookies, etc. for special occasions, and it’s not unheard of that a mom bakes her own birthday cake. That’s just the way it is sometimes, and personally, I’m okay with that! If baking my own chocolate cake means that it will turn out exactly how […]

Black sesame pudding (Kuro Goma Purin, 黒ごまプリン) may sound a bit strange if you’ve never had sesame seeds in a dessert, but let me promise you that this pudding not only works, but it is divine.

Happy National Pi(e) Day! π, or pi, is an irrational number, which means it continues infinitely without repeating. However it is approximately equal to 3.14. Since today is March 14th, or 3.14, it’s Pi Day! Because pi’s homophone is “pie,” today is also National Pi(e) Day, making pie the logical choice in celebration food.

An egg cream is a drink that consists of neither egg, nor cream, but milk, chocolate syrup, and soda water. The drink is most often associated with Brooklyn, NY, because of Louis Aster, a candy shop owner in Brooklyn who is alleged to have invented this creamy sweet bubbly drink in the late 1800s. National […]

This time of year always finds me wishing I was still living in Japan. If we were still in Japan, I’d be out everyday enjoying the new blooms on the trees. First the plum blossoms, and then the much anticipated cherry blossoms. During our last spring in Tokyo, Squirrel and I went out almost every […]

I’m excited about a new project I’m working on. I am one of the new guest bloggers for the Grain Foods Foundation, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to advancing the public’s understanding of the important role grain-based foods play in a healthful diet. Since this month is National Birth Defections Prevention Month, the Grain […]

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