Happy Thanksgiving everyone! As everyone has started traveling, we have stayed put this year due to the little time off we have but Christmas will be here before we know it!Since Ryan and I celebrated our Thanksgiving with the graduate students on Sunday we decided to dwell with leftovers. The original plan was for me to preapre a new meal for Ryan for his birthday on Thanksgiving instead on … [Read more...]
Deep Dish Chocolate-Raspberry Oat Bars
Hello my friends! I hope you all had an awesome weekend! I am on a total high from this weekend's performance because it was absolute perfection! I am so proud of my Ryan because he is the best conductor. I have all the right to be biased because it is so true. Ask around. :)Saturday, the day of the performance, we had a 3 1/2 hour rehearsal period because we had to work with the steel drum band … [Read more...]
Cherry-Chocolate Chunk Scones
So much has been going on in the past week and a half that it is hard to think I am even posting right now! I have been missing my cooking and baking due to musical challanges of late. I also mentioned to some that I have been a sightsinging fiend the past week and a hald that I told my voice teacher I needed vocal rest for 2 days before my next lesson. If music is my life then being involved with … [Read more...]
Ultra Fudgy Moist Brownies
I do not usually post two dessert posts because I hardly make them, but I guess I was craving chocolate this past weekend. I think I mentioned a few days ago stating that I felt like making brownies from a cookbook but decided against it since it had way too much Earth Balance margarine and way too much sugar. My whole brownie craving turned around when I saw Angela's post on August 27th. I truly … [Read more...]
Vegan Eggplant Timbale
From An Opera Singer in the KitchenI hope everyone is surviving this heat and humidity. We have been keeping busy trying no to let the summer colds come out in full blast.I had several comment a few days back letting me know that coconut water was the thing to drink to relieve migraines and to regain some electrolyte balance. My mother had also mentioned it to me so I remembered I had a … [Read more...]