the wedding (and the cakes)
Greetings! I come bearing wedding details (as promised), though I'm running a little late (probably as expected). We got hitched at the beautiful Lake Rabun Hotel in the Georgia mountains on ...
peanut butter and honey ice cream
*interrupting the scheduled post of "Meatball" Subs to bring you this ice cream* Three of my favorite ingredients have magical transformation powers. If you whirr them in a blender, then churn ...
snickers pie
I really struggled with this one. Not that it was difficult, no, it's just that I have a butter (and therefore, cream) phobia that kicks in from time to time. So this pie was setting off all ...
molten chocolate cakes
You didn't think that the chocolate posts would end on Valentine's Day, did you? Okay, that was the plan. Plans. Ha! You may want to make these decadent little treats only once a year, but ...
peppermint sandwich cookies
You slather silky pink peppermint buttercream between two soft, shortbread-y chocolate wafers. You press the two sides together ever so gently to urge the buttercream to the edges, just enough to ...
chocolate chip cookies, classic + vegan/gluten-free
With Christmas lurking less than three weeks away, my sister and I need to get cracking on our annual holiday tradition of sending out tins of cookies. I'm not sure what's on this year's menu ...
chocolate cake
I'm 28 today. I must be getting old, because instead of using my birthday as an excuse to try some decadent recipe I've been eyeing, I'm going to keep it simple and allow The Grit to provide me with ...
pecan pie bars
Mmmmmm. Pecan pie bars. A portable pecan pie with a luscious shortbread crust, gussied up with chocolate chunks and a hint of espresso. To me, pecans bring to mind Eli's grandfather's family ...
pimento cheese
Sweet, sweet, Southern pimento cheese. My dad's job took our family from Colorado to North Carolina when I was 11. There are a couple of memories that stand out from that time: looking out the ...
chocolate icebox cake (from scratch)
I made this cake for my mom's (belated) birthday, which seems fitting since she taught me how to make it, and her mom taught her. Is there a better way to say that? Probably. Thanks, mom, for ...
walnut brownies with browned butter
We headed up to South Carolina for the weekend to help Eli's mom sort through some memorabilia. Rather, Eli went to help sort through some stuff; I went along to prevent a certain 25-pound ...
carrot-cheesecake with pineapple flowers
I made this cake waaaay back in June for E's birthday. I figured I should get it posted now 'cause before we know it his 30th will be rolling around and senility will be setting in, as he likes ...
blackberry, lime, and honeydew tart
This was supposed to be the sixth and final post in a series of frozen desserts, but the pictures of mint ice cream I took last year are hurting my eyeballs. Fresh mint ice cream is awesome. There's ...
cafe affogato
Cafe affogato translates to drowned coffee. Drowned in coffee. That's how I'd like to go out, if I must. This isn't so much a recipe as it is a public service announcement. You must should try ...
strawberry shortcakes
It was a beautiful afternoon for a country drive out to Washington Farms to pick strawberries. As I was walking down the dusty road from my car to their open-air white picket stand I could smell ...
coconut mango cake with fresh strawberries
Let's say you went on a 100 kilometer bike ride through the countryside. Let's say it's your birthday. Let's say you're a lunatic who raced 80 laps around a 1 kilometer course at speeds approaching ...
chocolate stout cupcakes w/dulce de leche frosting
This cupcake was my creation for a certain contest that required the utilization of chocolate plus one or more of ingredients off a large list that included things like beets and bee pollen and ...
spaghetti with browned butter and mizithra cheese
That last post made me all nostalgic. I'd like to do some posts on family and food and memories; all I need to do is traverse a couple hundred miles on the trail of some old photos. No biggie. ...
chocolate peanut butter
The lovely Deb, of smittenkitchen.com, always posts great recipes but there are a couple that stand out in my mind; recipes that lured me in with just a picture, induced wild fits of drooling and ...
espresso granita
This recipe is based on espresso. Espresso is pretty great. Slushies are pretty great too. Espresso + slushy = unstoppable force of awesome greatness. So, you stir together some espresso or ...
crème brûlée
Hi there. Here we are, around post #11 or so. I haven't told my people about this here blog yet. I'm a little nervous. Nervous that it's going to be like a teenage journal, in that when you're ...
cream cheese cinnamon rolls
Ahhh. Hello, Cinnamon Rolls. I remember the morning I made you as if it were yesterday. The year was 2010. The month was April. The time was a hair before the buttcrack of dawn on a dark, ...
spicy mac and cheese
There are some crazy things happening with the colors in this photo that I can't even begin to address: But I needed it to show you a couple of things. Like...crackly, cheesy crust. Creamy ...