Birthday girl requested pumpkin, so pumpkin she got —and not in any ordinary pumpkin bread sort of way. Because the best kinds of friendship...

S ince this has pretty much become a chocolate cake blog, here's a new one: moist subtly sweet cake with a hint of cinnamon studded with...

The good news is that if, by chance, you cut this cake and serve about half of it, and the remainder topples over into not-so-pretty layers,...

First off, you should know these are not really figs. They are wigs. Because when my roommates first picked them off the neighbor's tre...

The end of a life season has a certain power to make my tear ducts drizzle with emotion, even though I claim to not be much of a crier. That...

Pasta salad has become the love language of the summer of 2016. It's just so multiplicitous. I can make a whole batch for a family in ...

The have nots of my 20s haunted my ascent to 30. I have not married, or even come close. I have not had children. I h...