Cardamom is one of my all-time favorite spices… I know, coming from someone who loves as many spices as I do, that doesn’t mean much. I want to sing it’s praises from the mountaintop. Sadly, because people do not understand it’s potency, it goes woefully underused. Cardamom is the third most [more]

We here at ONK love love love our pasta, but we do not love the red substance that large factories put into jars and call pasta sauce. I’m not saying I never use it. I admit I do in a pinch, but most of the time when we want pasta I will put in the leg work for some homemade marinara, free of many of [more]

For the most part we here at ONK shy away from peppermint. We both enjoy a good peppermint bark or candy cane, but every time I have tried to bake something with peppermint… it falls flat on it’s face. Either it’s too sweet, not sweet enough, the peppermint doesn’t mix well with the other flavors, [more]

Yesterday we broke out the cookie press. As fun as a cookie press is, there comes a limit to the number of Spritz cookies you will go through. Not all cookies can go into the cookie press. Sorry to burst your bubble, but your chocolate chip cookies will not come out of your cookie press. But there is at [more]

When ComputerNerd and I first moved in together, we lived in this tiny studio loft. I know what you’re thinking: woe is us a loft. This was not your normal re-purposed warehouse apartment, there was not a lot of space. Not to mention the landlord made some questionable decisions about what was [more]