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Category Archives: Marilla

Bittersweet bookery & cupcakes to match.

(I’m cross-posting this on my blog, Cupcake Rehab, so if you’re a reader of both you’ll probably notice you’re seeing it twice… no you aren’t seeing double! And also, because of that, they’ve got the watermark on them… so please excuse that) Well it feels really good to be back posting here! It’s been FOREVER [...]

And we’re back in 5… 4… 3… 2…

Yes, you read that right. We’re back! After a long absence, the four of us are picking up the books again! Our next book, which was Jeanine’s pick, is A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg, for anyone who wants to read along with us (our Books We Cooked page is even updated!) It’s been a [...]

For my first time, a berry good pie.

Annnnnd… we’re back! Sorry for the delay. We’ve all been reading the latest book and I think most of us have finished it, but we’re also really busy, so excuse us. But here I am with a new recipe and Jeanine posted that fantastic three layer carrot cake so hopefully we’re back on a roll. [...]

Don’t think we’ve forgotten..

It’s been a busy few months for us. Brianne got her own blog up and running and then got a .com (Iron Chef Mommy), and then Jeanine became a vegan again, decided to start a vegan blog and bought her .com (Vegan Nourishment – coming soon!) and she’s been working on that… and I’ve been [...]

Chocolate for Valentine’s Day… how groundbreaking!

Well I’ve been MIA for almost 2 months. That’s really lousy of me- but things have been busy. Plus I’m keeping up with my food blog, as well as all the other daily acitivities and responsibilities I have to do. But nonetheless, I finished Garlic & Sapphires a while back and I have to say [...]

On the twelfth day of Christmas I made.. gnocchi!

I’ll start this off by saying I’m sure you all had a lovely Christmas, I definitely did- filled with food & family, and gifts of course. But you’re here to read about the food part of that equation, and so I won’t keep you waiting… My attempt to make Giulia’s gnocchi was to take place [...]

Just a quick thank you…

I know everyone’s busy with Christmas, getting ready to make our gnocchi and if you’re Jeanine- being at Disney! But I just wanted to thank Yoyo at topstitch.org for spotlighting us this week for ‘Web Crawler Wednesday’! It’s sweet of her to plug us and I know we all appreciate it. Thank you, Yoyo! So [...]

Some random 3 a.m. thoughts on blogging, cooking & authors.

As we near the end of our first book, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, get closer to the start of our second book, Garlic & Sapphires, and having just watched the movie Julie & Julia, I started thinking about all sorts of things: blogging, cooking (and blogging about it), and reading books and [...]

Franny’s, Bar(n) & us: a celebration of our first book!

Us fabulous ladies from Cooking the Books got together last night at Franny’s in Brooklyn, an adorable restaurant Giulia Melucci (author of our first book, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti) recommended that serves fantastic brick oven pizza, and then to a bar called Bar(n) across the street, to celebrate our first book conquest. [...]

All good things must come to an end.

No- not our blog! But our first book selection, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti. We all thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I think we can all agree every recipe we tried from it was aces, that we could relate to it in so many ways, and that we were all very sad when [...]