By Nick • February 13, 2010
Generally, I’d like to think I’m a romantic guy. I like snuggling, holding hands, and smoochin’. But, I’m not crazy about Valentine’s Day. I like spending time with people I love (or even friends/family) on Valentine’s Day, but I’m not huge on the dozens of roses and expensive dinner situation.
Luckily, my future wife isn’t too [...]
Posted in breakfast, Easy Stuff, good food, Holidays, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged brunch, capers, chocolate, cream cheese, crepes, how to make crepes, mascarpone, nutella, smoked salmon, Valentine's Day
By Nick • December 31, 2009
Happy New Year’s Eve everybody! I’ve been brainstorming and researching a few very quick appetizers that you could make for New Year’s tonight if you’re still in need of a recipe. The three appetizers in this post are basically just one ingredient with some standard spices and stuff that you probably have laying around.
They make [...]
Posted in appetizers, Easy Stuff, Economical, Holidays, spicy | Tagged appetizers, cashews, chickpeas, kale, spicy
By Nick • December 29, 2009
We are now in what I call the Holiday Donut Hole, which is the brief period of time between gorging yourself at Christmas and gorging yourself for New Year’s. Personally, I’m taking these few days to do some healthy eating, but it’s definitely worth starting to plan for New Year’s, especially if you are throwing [...]
Posted in Holidays, musings, The Drink | Tagged booze, drinks, New Year's, parties, punch
By Nick • December 17, 2009
I made some kind of elaborate cookies this week on Macheesmo. Ok. I haven’t made anything ridiculously elaborate, but all the cookies so far have been filled or stuffed or layered or something that involves more than one bowl and a baking sheet.
So for the last cookie of the week, I wanted to do something [...]
Posted in baking, Easy Stuff, good food, Holidays | Tagged brown butter, butter, cookies, sugar cookies
By Nick • December 16, 2009
For each recipe during cookie week this week, I’m trying to keep a flavor or something from the previous day’s recipe. So I made peppermint whoopie pies yesterday to go with the peppermint bark on Monday. Today’s recipe uses the chocolate from the whoopie pies to make these ganache filled cookies!
Why did I organize the [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, good food, Holidays, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged chocolate, cookies, ganache, honey, thumbprint cookies, vanilla
By Nick • December 15, 2009
It’s not very often that I make something pink here at Macheesmo. It’s not a color that I’m very familiar with. But it’s the holidays and so I’m willing to step outside my comfort zone and make something tasty and pink.
That’s how much I love you guys.
Of course, you don’t have to make the filling [...]
Posted in baking, Holidays, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged buttercream frosting, chocolate, cookies, peppermint, whoopie pies
