The Kitchen is No Place for Perfection

I love cooking. My younger self would never understand that sentiment, but in recent years I've really taken to my kitchen. I blame YouTube for constantly recommending Gordon Ramsey videos to me late at night when I was in college, but I find something very romantic about working…

Your Recipe Doesn't Need a Backstory

This problem is so common it became a meme and recipe-writers on the internet still haven't figured it out: we, the recipe readers, don't care about your life story. We don't need to hear how this dish has transformed your love life, or how…

The Pain of Losing Weight

Pictured: having fun plating a potato salad. I mentioned this in my previous post, and since I'm partially out of it from my second vaccine dose, I figured I could expand on the issues you may face when trying to lose weight. At the beginning of the year,…

Don't Make your Mornings Routine

I was told that everything needed to get done before work. But I'm a programmer, and so it's considered normal to stay up extremely late working on projects. You can't stay up late and wake up early, but I definitely tried.…

Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread

I don't think I want this blog to turn into a recipe outlet, but at the moment it's all I can think of that will fill my desired 5+ minute post goal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've baked quite a bit of sourdough in the last year…

Shockingly Easy Chocolate Tart

A few weekends ago I made a disappointing lemon tart and wanted to right my wrongs. Energized by a round of YouTube recipe bingeing, I decided to try my hand at a chocolate ganache tart. I was completely blown away. Delicious, idiot-proof, flaky pastry on my very first try. A…