April 28, 2010
 Throwing a party means serving food, and the type of food you serve is important. It needs to be easy to make, so that you can concentrate on having a good time. It needs to be easy to eat without making a mess (I'll never forget the disasterous fondue party I threw when I was eight, which turned into a food fight and, consequently, chocolate stains all over Mom's dining room). It should also be tasty. When it comes to party food, many people like to play it safe with cheese and crackers, chips and salsa, carrot sticks and dip. These are all fine, but if you want to try something a little different, these bite-size stuffed grape tomatoes are where it's at. They're easy to make, could be eaten skewered on a toothpick or atop a cracker, and taste amazing.
Ingredients:
*serves 10
10 grape tomatoes, hollowed with a small knife
3 tbsp storebought breadcrumbs
3 tbsp storebought pesto sauce
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spoon breadcrumbs into the hollowed tomatoes, then spin them to distribute bread crumbs evenly. Pour out the extra breadcrumbs that don't stick to the inside of the tomato. Put half a teaspoon of pesto sauce into each tomato. Bake tomatoes in a pie tin at 375 degrees F for about 10 minutes, until the tomatoes have softened and the sauce is hot.
Posted by Emma Barker. Posted In : Sides
April 26, 2010
 When I moved into my apartment in September, I quickly figured out how to get to all the places I needed to go: school, work, and the grocery store. Once I knew the fastest way to get to each of those places, I stopped exploring. It's really a shame, because in the 8 months I've lived in this apartment, I didn't know until a few days ago that there is a huge, HUGE park just a few blocks away. I found it while I was running, something I've started doing again now that the weather is gettin...
Posted by Emma Barker. Posted In : entrees
April 22, 2010
 During the month I was in Paris over the summer, I did not eat a single macaron. I saw them in various patisseries, and although I didn't know what they were, I thought they looked very dry and artificially colored and not worth my time.
Then I came back to the States, started a recipe blog, and discovered that macarons, the weird looking cookies I had dismissed with hardly a second thought, were all the rage in the food blogging community. People were really going nuts over them: goi...
Posted by Emma Barker. Posted In : Desserts
April 16, 2010
 Sometimes when life feels like it's accelerating, all I crave is simplicity. Sometimes I just want to make all the things that make my life complicated go away, but then of course I wouldn't have a blog, or a job, or be taking any classes. In other words, I would be a blob. A bored, unhappy blob, at that.
So what I do when I want to simplify is reorganize. I clean my room, so that I can actually walk around it without stubbing any toes. I get out a nice, blank sheet of paper and write...
Posted by Emma Barker. Posted In : Sides
April 12, 2010
 We seem to be having a long winter. Last year by this time, we were already getting some hot days, but this year Davis is warming up much more slowly. The cold bite hasn't quite gone out of the wind, and the rain is still falling. My thick jacket is still very much in active use, and I'm not happy about it.
While the weather is staying so stubbornly cold, I've been trying to warm things up with recipes that are hearty, but have some of the freshness of spring. This carrot soup fits th...
Posted by Emma Barker. Posted In : Soups
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Welcome to my blog! I'm Emma, a recent college graduate with a BA in French. I am passionate about cooking and writing, among other things. Come share in my love of food!
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