Gradient Cake from Gabriel Rodriguez on Vimeo. In my web marketing day job, I appreciate the mild panache a subtle gradient can add to a design projects.  They give things a little more depth and interest without a lot of flash. The same could be said for this fab gradient cake, so artfully demo-ed by the lovely baker  Ashley Rodriguez (of Not Without Salt).  It's ...

Another week behind us brings another slew of cool posts to catch up on.  Quickly now - to the foodie blogosphere!: 30+ easy ways to make Ramen better How to make simple fruit vodkas (OMG - the photo above is from that great post too) Fine Cooking teaches you how to make really great french fries Mystery kitchen odors and how to fix them (it ...

Nothing like a nice fruit hand pie for breakfast (or afternoon snack) - aka: Pop Tart.  Awwww yeah. It's been a recent obsession, can't wait to start making jam this summer!  These recipes make it easy to skip the store bought stuff and bring on the warm and sweet gooey goodness: Fig pop-tarts with ginger icing (all grown up!) Great take on a ...

Nothing says love in  your belly like special desserts to share with your fam and friends.  Hello, delicious Mexican fried ice cream... how's it goin'? But sometimes the hugely sugary and dairy laden stuff is just too much - and that's where this vegan un-fried Mexican ice cream recipe comes in handy (found on the uber-great vegan YumUniverse blog). First off, it ...

It's peach season and you know what that means...  cobbler, pie and unabashed devouring of the fuzzy little glowing orbs. But here's a slightly more eloquent way to take on these peachy beauties:  poached peaches in wine with basil.  Yes. Yes. Yes.  (HT Bon Appetit blog)

As much as I adore 'real life coming in the mail and flip through delicious physical pages' magazines, I appreciate the Web-based ones too. Fewer trees sacrificed, less concern on me forgetting to check the mail (ahem) and less stuff for me to stack on my bookshelves and dust around later (I am physically incapable of throwing away magazines apparently). I just ...

While I am a vodka, soda and lime girl first and foremost (Tito's Vodka, thank you very much) - I do love to indulge in the occasional sweet pink silliness that is a Cosmopolitan.  No shame here, folks. This completely precious over-the-Cosmo-rim lime cookie recipe from The Decorated Cookie blog brings a slew of new excuses to sip on something martini ...

Surely you knew this would HAVE to exist at some point. With more of the world getting feisty in the kitchen and even more of the world obsessed with obscene cuteness (hello LOLcats, cuteoverload and zooborns),  there was no question that a site like EpiCute would come to be. EpiCute is a blog for cute food.  Yup.  Food that is tiny, silly, ...

I don't know what the deal is this week, but I have found no less than 4 posts talking about Japanese KitKat bar tasting.  Some old, some new.  'Tis the season much?  Apparently so. All the hubbub has got me inspired to get myself down to our local Japanese Grocery (Nippan Daido) and stuff my gullet with green tea / orange ...

The creme de la creme of the food blogosphere this week: From last month, but still awesome - Jonti points out 10 sustainable food peeps to watch VeganDad gives out some handy pointers on baking vegan croissants Slaw done the right way (that is, sans the goopy and fatty mayo) by Smitten Kitchen Slashfood features one of Natalia Rose's concoctions - kale lemonade (mmmmm...) Raw ...