Sel & Pepper

Sweet Potato Oven Fries

2010-01-24T19:40:00.007-05:00

Just dropping in to share a simple side dish we decided to whip up to accompany club sandwiches. I'm a big fan of fries, but oven fries are not really my thing. A bit too bland, I would say. However, sweet potatoes … a different story. I always have difficulty resisting a sweet and salty combo. I was in too much a hurry today to cook completely so they didn't have time to crisp up. I

Spring rolls with peanut dipping sauce

2010-01-17T12:02:00.003-05:00

The past two weeks have been quite hectic for me. A new semester started and is already in full spin. On top of studies, I have to start applying for clerkships and internships by next week. Basically, I’ve been home one night since. All this combined to the lack of a kitchen resulted in no posts. But I’m back. We celebrated the boyfriend’s birthday yesterday. We had first planned on making

Walnut, Date and Banana Bundt Cake

2010-01-03T14:27:00.006-05:00

I was browsing the web this morning looking for a recipe to use up extra walnuts and dates. I got a little too exited at Costco before Christmas and bought industrial sized bags of walnuts to bake cookies and dates to makes goat cheese stuffed dates wrapped in bacon. Both were excellent but too much of a good thing … is too much. I also needed something I could make in a large quantity

Fleur de Sel and Thyme Breadsticks

2009-12-28T09:49:00.001-05:00

I just got back from a lovely Christmas visit in Boston. We just ate and ate for 4 days straight, yet here I am, baking breadsticks. Yes, as if we hadn’t all eaten too much starch in the past week or so, I am baking bread. I have no ideas why, as I had vowed to myself last night that I would only eat salad for the next month. I guess I’m not so good with resolutions. Bread making has always

Chocolate Pecan Thumbprint Cookies

2009-12-21T14:08:00.007-05:00

This should be the last installment of my cookie marathon as I am burnt out and because my electric bill must have exploded with the oven on all day for a week. I keep saying each cookie is my favorite but this one might as well be the one. They are a good mix of flavor, sweet and bitter, and textures, soft and crunchy. Guests seemed to be impressed and my mother in law’s Christmas party

Millionaire’s bars – Caramel shortbread covered in chocolate

2009-12-19T13:05:00.002-05:00

One layer shortbread, one layer caramel (similar to dulce de leche) and one thin chocolate layer make up these little bites. These bars are SWEET. The sort of sweet you can’t take so much of. They are very good but one bite is enough, which might as well be a good thing during the Holidays. I don’t think I’ve ever run into as many problems with such a simple recipe. The recipe called

Russian Cashew Teacakes

2009-12-17T17:38:00.010-05:00

Today was phase two of my holiday food marathon (and I use this word in the least derogatory way possible). With finals, I almost forgot Christmas would come so fast. Only one more week and I couldn’t be any more exited. I baked chocolate snowballs and these cashew delicacies. Russian teacakes, Mexican wedding cakes, sandcakes, snowballs, Italian butter nut, however you call them, these

Chocolate-peanut biscotti, dipped in chocolate

2009-12-17T16:06:00.001-05:00

<Yearly, holiday baking always has to start with these biscotti for me. They are not particularly christmassy but they are the first cookies I ever baked by myself so I have some sort of special attachment to them, sort of a first step into woman-hood. I was expecting a disaster as I had always been told baking had to be precise to the milligram but I was happily surprised when these golden brown

Planning for a celebration

2009-12-14T16:58:00.006-05:00

Law school finals are finally over (so is half my bachelors degree) and now comes the times for long awaited baking. The past month has been spent buried in books. The whole house is stained by highlighters. And most importantly, I have gone though all my post-its. Finals are especially hard in December because all I can seem to think about are holiday preparations. I have gone over my

About

2008-10-05T18:53:00.003-04:00

I'm a young girl, still a student. I study law, actually. I don't know if it's the right field for me but I just can't give up anything I've started. Often times, it's hard to conciliate my passions with my studies, seems like they are too frivolous. I am starting this blog to gain a new perspective on baking and photography. Nowadays, maintaining a blog is a great accomplishment and I would