Blueberry Crumb Cake

As you may know, I’ve been baking, or is it drooling, through Dorie Greenspan’s Baking From My Home to Yours. Last week I made these Chocolate Malted Whopper Cookies. In an effort to bring you something other than a cookie (I know, there have been a lot of cookies lately) I present you with Dorie’s…

Chocolate Malted Whopper Cookies

As I write this post, I’m polishing off the other 6 ounces of Whoppers that weren’t needed for this recipe. I mean come on, how often do you have extra Whoppers on hand in the house? And they’re healthy, right? There’s some wholesome milk in them. At any rate, last week I borrowed Dorie Greenspan’s…

white chocolate mocha blondies

So, you know how I made those Strawberry-White Chocolate Blondies a few weeks ago. Since then I’ve barely missed a day of baking up a new blondie concoction. So what the heck. Let’s just call it Blondie Week on made by mike. There are worse ways to celebrate a rainy spring week. Am I right?…

the list: an update

I thought that it might be a good time for a “list” update. In the last couple of weeks I finished two more items. I made Ina Garten’s Lemon Chicken with Croutons and I read an entire book in a day. The chicken was great and the book was short.  Just eighty pages. But hey,…

i heart the following things

and always #1…the Gregster. friends and family. cheese.  All kinds of cheese. keane's new album Perfect Symmetry. It's a little different from their last albums, but I'm quite enjoying it. I don't think there's a single stinker track on  it. My favorites include Better Than This, You Don't See Me, and Pretend That You're Alone….

how sweet it was

It’s Wednesday morning and it’s already been a very busy week. Monday night, I had a big event to manage at work. It went off without a hitch and everyone associated with it were pleased. Last night Greg and I joined our friends David and Marc at Blossom Music Center to see James Taylor in…