I’m pausing from cooking to make a blog post because I always have the darnedest time trying to find my favorite recipes, and I need something saved online. Not only on my blog, but something I can pin to Pinterest. So, I give you Alice’s Dressing, which has become my dressing, with a few tweaks …
Category Archives: Kari’s Kitchen
Mysterious Candy Recipe
This recipe, scribbled onto an envelope, fell out of a community cookbook that belonged to my grandmother. It’s so poignant to see her handwriting again. We called her Honey, and I miss her sweetness every single day. She taught me most of what I know about cooking. Even so, I can’t quite figure this one …
Downton Abbey Party and Recipes
Sunday night was the Downton Abbey Season 4 premiere and for months, I’ve been planning to have an elegant dinner/tea party to celebrate. I confessed to my husband that I’ve always wanted to have a frou-frou tea party to celebrate my birthday, but who throws a birthday party for themselves? So this gave me the …
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Call me morbid, but every time I make red velvet cake, I think about how it looks like a bakery crime scene. (You should click to enlarge the photos and truly experience the gruesomeness that IS red velvet cake.) Especially when my favorite batter-scooping-spoon is nowhere to be found, and I have to improvise, filling …
Dr. Pepper Cupcakes
When my son Eli first saw me looking at a Dr. Pepper cake on Pinterest, he begged me to make him one. I like Dr. Pepper, but I thought it sounded kind of weird. So I told him that I’d try it one day. Maybe. Well, he didn’t forget, and requested it for his birthday. …