Have you ever had a skillet cookie? There was a restaurant close to Elon University in North Carolina, where I spent my first two years of college, called Casa Roble that had a dessert of a hot chocolate chip cookie baked in a small cast iron pan served with melting vanilla ice cream. Basically everyone’s […]

Happy Easter! To be honest, I was raised more spiritually than within organized religion so my Easter holidays growing up were about the Easter bunny and egg hunts. When I was really young, we dyed eggs in all of the colors until those eggs turned to plastic + were filled with chocolate or money with […]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! As someone who Irish Step danced throughout high school, I miss this day of dancing + merriment often. Someone I also think about on this day is my “little sister,” who I met during those dancing years when I was the rehearsal captain of our company and she was our youngest […]

Being in the hospitality industry, my boyfriend + I are typically working on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. It’s a marathon working about 24 hours within 29, but it’s something that we know is going to happen and the team makes it a lot of fun to be there together. This year due […]

Happy New Year! I was 13 when I first went to Paris. My grandparents were there, and invited my mother + I during my spring break. European culture, specifically France and Switzerland where my grandmother’s family is from, has always been instilled in me, but when I was able to experience it for myself, I […]

When you talk about the holidays on my mother’s side of the family, there are two desserts that would always come up – mocha torte + peppermint stick ice cream. The former was way too strong for my young tastebuds as it’s a layered dessert of ladyfingers + a rich mocha ganache – but the […]

Dear Santa, Do you remember when we all were wishing for a laundry list of things last year? 2020 was going to be the year of perfect vision, and yet the visions of dancing sugarplums did not look like covid-19, isolation + politicians from both sides of the aisle caring about their own agendas than […]

This recipe is the best holiday hot chocolate in cookie form. Do you see a theme here? You start with brownie cookies (inspiration from @bojongourmet). When the batter can’t get any better, you fold in smaller versions of your homemade marshmallows and add crushed candy cane + sea salt on top. What comes out is […]

I don’t know Christmas without chocolate, orange and peppermint. Those are the flavors of my childhood with our stockings filled with chocolate oranges – a tradition from my dad’s side of the family – and dinners ending with bowls of peppermint stick ice cream – a tradition from my mom’s side of the family. I […]