Rosewater Apple Crumble

This is a recipe from The Great Apple Orgy of 2012, which I photographed, consumed at an embarrassingly rapid pace, and never got around to posting (hormones, remember??). This clean, delicately-flavored dish stands out from all other apple desserts and their reliably delicious but equally predictable pairing with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, blah blah blah.

In Bed With the Enemy of Mediocrity

So, you may or may not know that the guy I sleep next to is rather talented. He just had two photos published in Incandescent, a zine dedicated to color film photography, and also recently rolled out an online portfolio that's sigh-worthy. If I were you, I'd def take a gander.

xxx,
j

Sun, Enter Stage Left

Just when I decided to embrace the rain and cloud cover Holland copiously provides, the sun gods decided to camp out over the southern North Sea, which has made for some exquisite skies, especially in the evenings, none of which I managed to capture with a camera, of course. And those macarons, a gift from a friend who knows what makes me tick, barely made it on camera before ingestion. Yum. And random. Blaming it on hormones. Naysayers, shut up.

A Game of Catch(up): The Last Three Months, in Retrospect

Although recent history says I failed through and through at taking my lens cap off every day for the normally weekly Sunday Snippets posts, my camera wasn't entirely idle. Here's a peep at some of the sights that've been following me around for the past three months...

xxx,

j

B.T.Y.M. (Better Than Your Momma's) Chocolate Chip Cookies

I know I've said it before, but this time I mean it, dammit. Like, really, really mean it. I've found the holy grail of chocolate chip cookie recipes, the result of which dances through the dreams of the vast majority of Americans but remains at bay. This is the cookie I never thought existed. It does, in all its buttery, chewy, tender glory. And after about a hundred taste-testers' approval, I've got a solid case.