After a near 2 months hiatus, I'm back! What have I been up to in the past 2 months? Well, I graduated! Now I'm spending the summer teaching at a camp here in Urbana and moving back home in August. Summertime is definitely a time for tasty food experimentations. So y'all will be getting [...]
I finally made rum balls! This is super long overdue, since Christmas was four months ago. My boyfriend and I decided to make some rum balls for fun. Neither one of us are big on alcohol, so he brought it into the lab and they were a hit! Buzzed chemists running about all day. [...]
Chocolate-covered potato chips are the ultimate guilty-pleasure snack. Savory and sweet, it's the perfect combination for a snack. Trust me, once you have one of these, you won't stop! I got the idea for this recipe after buying the Milk-Chocolate Covered Potato Chips from Trader Joe's. The problem? The nearest Trader Joe's is 200 miles [...]
Potatoes. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in the stew. I am actually not a big potato fan. Oven roasting is pretty much the only way I will eat potatoes. Since I had a couple red potatoes sitting out for a while, I decided to roast them. One perk about this recipe? Super easy [...]
As I talk about it quite often, one of my all time favorite things to eat is gnocchi. Those soft, pillowy goodness are such an amazing dish to make. Easy, fast, and delicious! What more could you ask for? I've been experimenting with different recipes on making gnocchi from scratch. There is the more complex [...]
This totally brings me back to my childhood! I remember growing up, my mom would buy the instant jello in black tea flavor. It was a family favorite and it tastes so good! Since I had a box of gelatin packets sitting in my pantry, I figured I might as well do something with it. [...]
Happy Lenten Season! This year, I'm giving up coffee, and the withdrawal symptoms are already kicking in! Luckily, I have tea occasionally so it is definitely a lot more tolerable. I recently bought chai tea bags and I wanted to make chai tea lattes, just like the ones they sell at coffee shops. I've come up with [...]
Last month, I got some egg nog on clearance at my local grocery store for about $2. I've never had egg nog before, and I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. Turns out, I did not. So what's a girl going to do with an entire bottle of egg nog? I've made [...]
A month ago, my friend requested a knit turban headband. So i tried out a few patterns, and found one that I liked. Since winter is seemingly never ending, I started knitting more and more headbands for my friends here. Like I've said before, loom knitting, for me at least, cuts down knitting time by [...]
Gnocchi: soft, pillowy heavenly goodness. The traditional way of cooking gnocchi is with a pot of boiling water, and the gnocchi will float to the top when it is done. Recently, I've been cooking gnocchi a different way, through pan-frying them! It's way faster (no need to wait for water to boil), and the result [...]
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