TweetPlease welcome guest blogger Dawn from Kitchen Travels! She is a fellow Sacramento food blogger that I’ve had the pleasure of meeting at several local events. She’s incredibly sweet, easy to talk to, and fun to be around. Her blog is all about food and travel. I particularly enjoyed these photos of the signs of [...]

Tweet Have you ever had a cooking disaster? Burned sauce, dry meat, over-mixed dough…we’ve all been there at one point or another. Something I have struggled with is gluten-free baking. The first time I attempted to bake gluten-free, I decided to tackle a pie recipe for Thanksgiving. Oh, and I forgot to mention – this [...]

Tweet So, as it turns out, Nutella isn’t good for you. Considering that sugar and palm oil are the first ingredients and it’s artificially flavored, I wasn’t exactly shocked. Like the article says, a settlement will “be paid to consumers if they are willing to admit they can’t read a nutrition label.” Whether you can [...]

Tweet “You can’t even tell these are gluten free!” Baking without gluten is notoriously difficult, so this statement made me smile. My sister and her partner are gluten-free so I’m always trying to find something to bake for our family get-togethers. In the past, I’ve avoided gluten altogether by making flourless desserts, such as flourless chocolate [...]

Tweet Even after filling macarons with my Meyer lemon curd and giving a jar of it away, I still had a lot of lemon curd on my hands. Luckily, there’s no shortage of ways to enjoy it: mixed in yogurt, on toast, straight out of the jar with a spoon. Still, I was getting a little sick of my go-to [...]