When our friend Laura asked me to make for her wedding, I immediately jumped on board with an enthusiastic “yes!” Making a wedding cake turned out to be a lifelong dream I didn’t even realize…
Food
Foodie Friday: Homemade Crackers with 6 Ingredients
A few weeks back, Mariko and I threw a cheese and cracker party. But of course we couldn’t just buy cheese and crackers…we had to make them. This idea really grew from the fact that…
Foodie Friday: Homemade Twix Bars
I don’t understand when people don’t like sweets. If someone says that to me, I immediately have my suspicions of them as a person. Is he or she an alien? I should try to be…
Foodie Friday: Avocado, Corn, Tomato Salad
While Linz and I were making our epic blueberry pie, we also needed to create a side dish to go along with the BBQing and other yummy dishes being brought to the party. This was…
Foodie Friday: Rustic Roasted Tomato Pizza
Our tomato plants have gone crazy. Remember when they looked like this? Well, now they look like this: I think our yellow plum tomato plant is something like five feet tall by eight feet wide.…
Foodie Friday: Peach Ice Cream Pie
Well, it seems that summer is drawing to a close. My sense of time has been seriously disturbed by becoming a mother/sleeping on a newborn schedule/not going to work. I mean it more than ever when…
Foodie Friday: Hannah Montana Blueberry Pie
There are a lot of fantastic things one can get up to in the summer. There is fresh produce to gorge on, BBQs to get silly with friends at, new music to discover and just general tomfoolery to…
Foodie Friday: Garden Gazpacho
Come late summer, gazpacho is the answer for everything. Can’t get rid of your garden’s zucchini harvest? Gazpacho! Feeling sugar overload from ice cream and berry desserts? Gazpacho! Too warm to eat hot food? Gazpacho!…
Foodie Friday: Blueberry Peach Upside Down Cake
I was in line at Whole Foods and saw an advertisement for Blueberry Peach Upside Down cake. Whaaaaat? I wanted it, I wanted it right away, but I wanted it homemade style. I’m a little…
Foodie Friday: Coconut Mocha Chip Ice Cream
In the days leading up to the birth of our little one, I became a bit obsessed with making ice cream. I blame the giant Costco-sized container of cream that needed to be used up.…
Adventures: Snacking
There is no denying that food ends up being a big part of all this adventure having. Perhaps it is the main feature if you are picking fruit or pickling everything in sight. Or maybe it’s…
Foodie Friday: Sushi Salad
While pregnant, one of the foods I missed the very most was sushi. I occasionally tried to quell my craving by going out for veggie sushi, but I was always a bit bummed that I…
Foodie Friday: Creme Fraiche Pizza
I am in love with this pizza. We are talking make-two-times-in-one-week kind of love. I think it is the creme fraiche. Perhaps it is it that I am currently into cream based flavors with lime,…
Foodie Friday: Strawberry Balsamic Ice Cream
Folks, it’s time to break out the ice cream maker. While I love this kitchen gadget, I find that it doesn’t get much use year-round. Father’s Day was the perfect excuse to dig it out,…
Foodie Friday: Homemade Peanut Butter
Sometimes food surprises me. Once when I was trying to make whipped cream as a youngin’, I overbeat the cream. And it turned into butter. Butter! How magical is that? I recently felt a similar…
Foodie Friday: Jam Cookies
Have we talked about Portlandia yet? Since moving to Baltimore I get asked a lot about that show. Have I seen? Is it realistic? And oh boy, am I excited to tell people it is…
Adventures: Strawberry Picking
It’s the first Sunday in a new season, which means we are moving on to a new idea for our “Letters” series. Since this season is about nature we will be exploring ways in which…
Craft Round Up: Food
This season was difficult was for me to figure out what type of Craft Round Up I wanted to do. Should I feature some fun crafts that use food? Should I share my favorite food…
Bawlmer
I love to travel. Yet, I understand that traveling is a word that can mean something different to people. For me, it often means eating and a lot of it. Food is one of the…
Challenge: Blood Orange Rosemary Spritzer
Being pregnant, something I can’t smugly say is that I haven’t missed alcohol at all. I do. I especially miss how a fancy cocktail can make me feel all special and grown up. I’m not…
jess + linz
Friends since middle school, we continue to inspire each other to be creative in our big, adult lives. Each season we take on a new theme to guide our crafting, cooking, and creating. We're up for trying anything, and things are bound to get messy. But that's just the way we like it.