Apparently Minnesota is the land of scandal this holiday season. First there was pointergate. And now? Now we have grapegate.
It all started when the New York Times ran an article on what Thanksgiving dish best “evokes” a given state. They bestowed grape salad upon our unsuspecting state, to which they earned a collective response of “Um….what’s grape salad?” which is passive aggressive code for “WTF NYT?!” Continue reading
I think I’m my boyfriend’s new favorite person.
I know that should go without saying. But when you split the chores and he gets the dishes, and I happily dirty every dish we own baking a three layer cake, I sometimes wonder if my cooking habit isn’t slowly driving him crazy.
But then, I made these. Continue reading
It’s unseasonably cold in Minnesota right now. We’re talking snow, and single digit low temps overnight.
It’s exactly the sort of weather that makes me want to throw in a Christmas movie, roll up my sleeves, and bake a million cookies.
Except I can’t. I just can’t. I have a very strong belief that we can’t ignore Thanksgiving. Continue reading
The Culinary Capers 