When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, I couldn’t find active dry yeast or instant yeast anywhere. It’s not like the stores were out of bread, but I had extra time and wanted to bake. No yeast meant I was extremely limited on what I could do in the kitchen. Then a friend offered to give […]

When my son was first starting to eat solid food, his pediatrician recommended that he eat a certain amount of baby cereal. Instead of just giving him soupy cereal on a spoon all the time, I decided to bake with it. In my quest to have pre-made, ready to eat, sugar free food for my […]

I’ll be honest – I hardly ever make a cake from scratch. While I love to bake and I often make lots other things from scratch (like bread, cookies and pancakes), for some reason when it comes to cake I usually reach for a box mix. I’m not sure why that is. Perhaps it was […]

Have you ever looked at the shape of a pretzel and thought “this looks just like a heart”? I never had until one day when it hit me, and I knew what I had to do – get out the chocolate! In just a few minutes, I had transformed ordinary pretzels into a heart shaped […]

When we visited Disney California Adventure last year, there was a special show at the time where Alice from the show “Alice’s Wonderland Bakery” led a cupcake decorating party. My daughter loved the party so much that she decided that’s what she wanted to do for her party – decorate cupcakes. Her birthday was months […]

  Have you ever looked at the shape of a pretzel and thought “this looks just like a heart”? I never had until today, and when it hit me, I knew what I had to do – get out the chocolate! Here’s how I made Valentine’s Day chocolate heart pretzels: I put 1/4 cup of […]

    Need a last minute Easter treat or something to do with all those Peeps? Make these Peeps Treats! It’s a fun and easy twist on the classic Rice Krispie Treats but with a decidedly Easter vibe.   My son loves marshmallows and Rice Krispie treats, so for Easter, I just knew I’d have […]

It’s Christmas! Merry Christmas, everyone! I wanted to make a fun breakfast for my family out of cresent rolls. I had several ideas of what to do, but there’s only me, my husband and our 1 year old, so I didn’t want to make too much food. What did I do? I used 1 can […]

(This post was originally written in 2015. See update at the bottom. We are still loving it 8 years after we originally ate here.) My husband and I love the beach, and thankfully, so does our 1-year old son. A typical beach day for us used to mean stopping at Trader Joe’s to fill our […]

  Yesterday was my mom’s birthday. I gave her several suggestions about things we could do to celebrate, but she just wanted pizza. Originally, she wanted Pizza Hut, but when I told her about Masa, the Chicago-style pizza place in Echo Park that I heard about, she wanted to go there instead. I’m so glad […]