This week, I've had the baking itch, but I've been getting home so late from work that every cookie recipe I've wanted to play with is too labor intensive, especially when you have to wait for the butter to soften. Yes, I know there are tricks to softening the butter...

We always have a cup or so of coffee left in the pot, and I always feel very guilty in tossing it out. After all, coffee beans get expensive. So this weekend I decided to try my hand in making a snack cake using left over brewed coffee as a main ingredient. To match...

I know casseroles are supposed to be super easy, where you just throw everything in a pot or pan and be done. That's the beauty of casseroles, right? Well, I am the urban domestic diva, and that means sometimes I have to get my hands all over a recipe and make it my...

Soup and salad night is usually met with a groan from my daughter and I. We do soup and salad night weekly, and it keeps us healthy and gives our systems a break for a night. It's usually pretty basic and easy (ahem, boring.) But sometimes we kick it up a little,...

This treat is so easy and makes a light dessert or sweet treat as a palate cleanser. I made these 3 years ago, and my kid has been asking me to make them again almost every day. I kept forgetting to get the oranges, until this weekend. I had her help with the peeling...

We are OBSESSED with soupy, slurpy noodle bowls of all sorts at our house since winter set in. In Chicago, we are so fortunate to have some really great ramen, soba and pho shops around the city. But ironically the first time we had giant steamy bowls of Asian noodles...