Cooking/Baking Black Bean Burgers & White Bean Strawberry Blondies

My roommate and I, both vegetarians, started a new Sunday night tradition: making veggilicious meals. This afternoon we experimented with beans and made black bean veggie burgers and Vegan white bean strawberry blondies.
The burgers were so much better than the frozen Garden Burgers I always eat, mainly because they were more filling and they tasted [...]

Having a Ball Making Cake Balls

I recently joined a craft group that some St. Petersburg Times folks started last fall. Joining the group has given me an excuse to rekindle my creativity by doing origami, making earrings and more.
I hosted the last craft party and spiced it up a bit. In place of a traditional craft, my friend and I [...]

Baking Pies, In a Makeshift Kind of Way

I convinced myself that I was well-prepared.
Nutmeg? Check. Flour? Check. Six plump peaches? Check. I had everything I needed to bake two pear pies, or so I thought.
When my friend and I started baking pies at my apartment Wednesday night, we soon realized that I was missing measuring cups. I thought I had them in [...]