By Nick • February 25, 2010
I wasn’t shocked when The Pioneer Woman won last week’s poll. She’s pretty much the most popular thing since Barack (2008). The hard part though was deciding what to make out of her latest cookbook. I didn’t really want to make a meat heavy dish which eliminated about 75% of the recipes, so instead I [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, Junk Food Junkies | Tagged brownie, brownie chocolate, brownies, butter, cakes, chocolate, chocolate brownie, cocoa powder, coffee, cookies, desserts, frosting recipe, homemade brownies, mocha brownies, mocha chocolate, mochas
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 • January 20, 2010
I’ve decided that a good babka is like a good movie… it’s got to have a lot of different parts to it. You want a movie (babka) that’s kind of sweet, but not too sweet. It should be filling, but leave you wanting another piece. It should get you excited for the sequel (more babka).
Ok. [...]
Posted in baking, breakfast, desserts, good food, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged babka, chocolate, enriched dough, how to make babka, pastry
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
By Nick • December 14, 2009
It’s cookie week here at Macheesmo because let’s face it, everybody is going to want to make and eat some cookies over the next few weeks. I’ve been saving and bookmarking recipes for awhile now, but if I made all the recipes that I wanted to try I would have to rename this site and [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, Holidays | Tagged candy, chocolate, cookies, Holidays, peppermint, peppermint bark, white chocolate
