A Hungry Bear

red velvet cupcakes

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

I would have made a great 1950’s housewife. It makes me obscenely happy to bake desserts for A - so much so that I can get in trouble for it. At first he loved it, coming home to have a chocolate kahlua cheesecake baked for him for no apparent reason. Then, maybe [...]

pigs in blankets

Monday, March 2, 2009

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Working on the blog update has kept me so busy I’ve had to resort to some faster recipes. Pigs-in-blankets are a childhood favorite, although my mom always made them with Bisquick mix. I could have used a standard biscuit recipe, but I found this recipe on Epicurious instead - kind of a like [...]

5 pounds of chocolate cupcakes

Thursday, October 2, 2008

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I found this recipe in the most unlikely of places - by talking to a startup software executive at a conference. I immediately like people when it’s apparent they have a love of food that rivals mine, and this woman was awesome. She had just moved back from Spain, and instead of talking [...]

best fried chicken in the universe

Sunday, September 14, 2008

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The September 2008 Bon Appetit is shaping up to be the best cookbook I’ve ever purchased - what is this, my 6th recipe from that issue, and counting? They featured Thomas Keller’s recipe for fried chicken, and the pictures of all these kids eating drumsticks had me thinking, I’ve got to try this. [...]

buttermilk pancakes

Saturday, March 15, 2008

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Whenever I crave good pancakes, I always assume this means I have to make a trip to either the Flying Biscuit (great oatmeal pancakes) or to the Original Pancake House in Atlanta. I associate at-home pancakes with the crappy Aunt-Jemima all-in-one mix or Bisquick or whatever, and those don’t come even close to “real” [...]