Month: January 2016

• Baking for Bookworms: Saffron Cream from Gregory Maguire’s Wicked

  January 2, 2016

  Baking for Bookworms

  baking for bookworms, dessert, Gregory Maguire, Saffron Cream, whipped cream, Wicked, Wizard of Oz

  There’s not much food mentioned in the Wicked series. Elphaba has way more important things to do than cook. Or even eat. But there are a few foods that manage to convey both a very Oz-like sense of the exotic as well as a dark of mysterious quality–something decadent but not quite right. Saffron cream is mentioned…

• Happy New Year! 16 Things I Want to Accomplish in 2016

  January 1, 2016

  Lifestyle

  Happy New Year, New Year 2016, new year’s goals, new year’s resolution

  I hope everyone had a wonderful (but maybe not too crazy) night last night. Now that we’ve all rung in the New Year, it’s time for some reflection on last year and the year ahead. In a way, I’m not sad to see the back of 2015. It’s been an intense and fairly stressful year.…