Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
If you’d like to remain blissfully unaware of the makings of a French Silk Pie, read no further. Send this link to a loved one and ask them to prepare it for you. Win win! French Silk Pie is one of my favorite food memories. Ye olde pie chain in our town made this pie…
It was a blink of en eye from the shelter in place order to the end of the school year, summer kick-off, and throw in throw in racial injustice that has brought us to another tipping point. The images, stories, resources are flooding our social media streams. While necessary, can be overwhelming. Hope everyone is…
New world, new rules. Dessert first is a good start, and I advise you make these cookies part of this new rule. Chocolately indeed. First off, if you have never made browned butter, this is the perfect opportunity to learn. It is magic! Making it takes your full attention as there is a fine line…
This my friends is the easiest caramel corn recipe ever. It helps when you can rely on culinary geniuses to make delicious ingredients to get you started. Case in point, cayenne cinnamon caramel sauce from Chocolate Twist. Though of course you could make your own caramel sauce, or just use store-bought. This recipe came out…
Winter was nothing if not persistent. I loved all the snow! The time change and St. Patrick’s Day are welcome signs of spring, even if there is snow in the forecast again tonight. The St. Patrick’s Day parade this year was snowy and cold but fun as always. We’ve had a lot of fun celebrating…
I mean, how could I not? It was just too easy and fun. I mean seriously, how awesome is that… I just wish I had done it earlier this month for the cake walk at the school carnival. The carnival is one of the best days of the year. Cake walk anyone? Though my daughter…
Minus the weekend, I missed half of February at work. Dare I say I was happy to return. Lunch at Union Sushi (two thumbs up) made my return even more enjoyable. Jury duty went late, later than I usually get home from work, so the husband was on dinner duty. Good thing because I was…
Long weekend, I am very thankful for the long weekend. I am thankful for a lot, but this year the long weekend wins top honors. We headed out-of-town for Thanksgiving, always more relaxing than a house full of chores staring you in the face. Thanksgiving day was gorgeous, great day for a walk on the…
I jumped on the pumpkin bandwagon this weekend. Actually, we tried to squeeze in as many fall events we could this weekend before it was too late. We got an early start Saturday morning to check out Casket Races… What a riot! Some really creative designs, including one made of 1100 lbs of ice. I…
“You are running the New York City marathon.” That is the Most common response when I tell people I am running the NYC marathon. They have the facial expression to go with it too, their eyes go wide as they say “you”. Sure I don’t look like your average runner, nonetheless marathon participant. Sure, I…