Happy Halloween y Día de Los Muertos! 31 Oct 2011 | 03:49 am

Sweet hand-made treats of pepita marzipan and coconut candy from the local mercado. Wishing you all a fantastically fun Halloween and beautiful Día de Los Muertos.

rainy season: things I'm loving 27 Aug 2011 | 06:03 am

local tropical summer fruit (clockwise from top): a yellow pitaya (dragon fruit), mamay (kind of tastes like baked sweet potato, and it's great pureed in muffins), limes from the yard, sapote from a t...

Popular Healthy Baking Recipes 26 Jun 2011 | 02:46 am

For anyone new to pattycake, you may be wondering which recipes to try first, so I compiled a list of some of the most popular recipes according to my stats. Delicious data. :) Most of these recipes ...

Hula Hulas & other things I'm Loving 15 Jun 2011 | 09:07 am

homemade hula hoops (or as they call them in Mexico, hula hulas) (photo from here) raw almonds that haven't been irradiated or pasteurized - soaked/germinated/sprouted hummingbirds the peppery arug...

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies 11 Jun 2011 | 07:40 am

These are some reeeeally tasty cookies I enjoyed baking this winter. We were living in a fantastic house overlooking a beautiful tropical lake, and this house had a great little kitchen with a large g...

Hot fresh corn tortillas from the local market 17 May 2011 | 08:15 am

Makin' Dough in Mexico 5 May 2011 | 12:58 pm

For the last several months I've been busy making dough… sourdough! I love it. It's so old school, tactile, physical, chemical, biological, nutritious, delicious... I love saying "I'm makin' dough" an...

¡Feliz Año Nuevo! 4 Jan 2011 | 06:03 am

Happy New Year! (Thanks for the beautiful hibiscus flower photo sweet C!) 

Sweet Winter Giveaway! 16 Dec 2010 | 06:44 am

Season's greetings! Hope you're all staying warm, baking and sharing wonderful goodies with the ones you love. I want to share something sweet and healthy that will lift your spirits, and since I can...

Classic Baked Oatmeal 30 Nov 2010 | 06:55 am

This summer, we ate baked oatmeal almost every morning. It was a hot summer, really hot, (locals said the hottest summer ever) but that didn't deter us from baking this because it was soooo good. We w...