Tag Archives: birthday

Red Velvet Cake

Today is Dan’s 27th birthday. Happy Dan’s birthday, internet!  I may have mentioned here, once or a thousand times, that birthdays are very important to me.  They’re not so important to Dan, but over the years I’ve been trying to nudge him in the celebrate-wildly-have-lots-of-fun direction.  It’s a slow process. This year, by far, has [...]

Watermelon Vodka Tonic

Internet, today is my 25th birthday. I can now rent a car, I am officially in my mid-twenties, and there’s a little bigger gap in age between myself and our slew of summer interns. Or at least, so it feels. I’ve been looking forward to this birthday for a while, and I am so excited [...]

Basic White Bread

This weekend was Dan’s 25th birthday.  I know, a big deal right?  No, you don’t think it’s a big deal?  Whatever, we’re pet and childless, we just got married, and this is the biggest birthday we’ve had to celebrate since I turned 21.  Incidentally both weekends ended with bacon, egg, and cheese croissants from City [...]

Mountain Pie

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, today is my birthday.  I may or may not have mentioned here before that I have a tendency to make a very big deal out of my birthday.  I think that it stems from having a lot of family spread over the east coast and a summer birthday.  I [...]

White Cake with Chocolate and Strawberries

While I would consider myself a pie person, I also really enjoy cakes, both baking and eating.  I think that my penchant for pie comes from my July birthday.  Because my birthday is usually in the summer, the ideal celebration dessert is a blueberry mountain pie, a recipe I’ll share for my birthday this year. [...]