ReStyle Food Prints Giveaway

Today's second giveaway is for the design lovers who appreciates a good food print. Jan, the graphic designer behind ReStyle has created some of my favorite prints ever. Food ones and non-food ones alike.

Would you put any of these up on your Kitchen wall? If the answer is yes then have a peek at some of her food posters, such as this romantic one, and this other romantic one, and this absolutely charming one. There are so many to choose from.

Today I get to give one lucky winner two prints of their choice, and the best part is that this includes my international readers as well. Woot. Woot. Today is your lucky day.

If you love prints and and you can't wait for the giveaway winner to be announced then head over to ReStyle where everything is 15% off, just in time for the Holidays. A print for Christmas? Yes please!

And for more of Jan and her awesome work you can follow her on Facebook, twitter, Flickr, and her blog.

For a chance to win please visit ReStyle then leave a comment below.

The Prize: 2 prints from ReStyle Shop. Winner chooses the prints. Shipped worldwide.

To Enter: Please visit ReStyle then leave a comment below +1 more comment: You can get more entries by becoming a Kitchen Corners' Follower using Google Friend Connect on footer of the blog. 

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Giveaway closes: Midnight Tuesday PST December 6. The winner will be randomly selected, contacted via email, and announced next Wednesday.

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This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Shilo Beedy, the lucky winner.

Banana Bread

I would much rather eat a juicy mango or a tooth achingly sweet pineapple than a banana, but both mangos and pineapple take a full 15 seconds longer to peel so bananas end up being my fruit of choice. It 100% helps that we now live in a place where bananas taste AWESOME.

I really hope one day you get the chance to experience a ripened banana from the tree, in fact go for an apple-banana the best kind there is.

In the U.S I used to make banana bread pretty often. Here, it's a different story. Yesterday Christian bought 15 bananas and in less than 24 hours they are all gone. The kids pretty much snack on them all day long, in fact so do the adults, and if we're not careful the monkeys come and steal some too.

5 Food Gifts for the Holidays

Every Monday from now until Christmas, I'll be posting a quick gift guide to some of my favorite food related finds. This Monday lets talk food. I'm a big fan of giving food for obvious reasons such as the delicious factor, the no clutter factor, and the delicious factor again. Giving food is basically a win. Here are 5 shops I love and products I recommend.

One
What: S'mores Kit
From: Matchbox Kitchen
Perfect For: Anyone. Maybe not kids because of the skewers and because they would need help assembling it. But definitely teenagers and adults alike.
Cost: $10

Two
What: Aunt Else's Gluten Free Aebleskiver Mix
From: Aunt Else's Aebleskiver
Perfect For: Your friend who eats a gluten free diet.
Cost: $12.99

Three
What: Pickled Beets

From: Happy Girl Kitchen

Perfect For: Your aunt who loves canning. Or your hipster friend who knows nothing about canning but likes the idea of canning.

Cost: $8

Four
What: Bacon Spread Variety Pack
From: Skillet
Perfect For: Meat lovers, so basically a good 90% of the people you know, also a total dude gift so if you drew you brother-in-law's name for Secret Santa then this would be a totally appropriate gift.
Cost: $39.99

Five
What: Crispy Coconut Kaffir Lime Dessert Bar
From: Ginger Elizabeth
Perfect For: The person who gives you love and affection, and do them a favor let them eat it all by themselves. There's nothing worse than getting delicious chocolate and having to share.
Cost: $6.50


What about you, do you like giving food as a gift and if so do you have any favorite shops you buy from? Do share.

Hello Weekend!

Hi friends,
if you still have Thanksgiving leftovers raise your hands. We still have some too. Thursday was crazy cooking day and then Friday and today were crazy lazy days. Yesterday Enzo had a cultural fair at his school and today we hung out with friends who are in town. Our friends rented a house with a pool and Enzo and Maria never wanted to leave. Pool are so awesome, they totally make my kids hungry and tiered and when they're hungry they'll eat anything and when they're tiered they're down and out fast. Today was a good day. This week was a good week.

Since we're on the topic of good things I wanted to share some good finds from the week:

// Sweet Paul Winter 2011 edition. I was anxiously waiting for this for months and then when it finally came out I was too busy to read it. Today I had some time to look over it and of couse it's fantastic to the core.
// Doesn't everyone re-heat pizza this way?
// I never thought I'd say this but this McDonalds is gorgeous.
// Loved this interview with Donna Hay
// This has got to be the most useful hi-tech kitchen gadget ever.
// Beautifully set tables make me happy.
// If you're thinking of making a gift for a little foodie I think these fabric cookies would be a real treat.

When in the Tropics have a Tropical Thanksgiving

We tried to figure out a way to have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner but it just ain't gonna happen. Sometimes the hardest part about moving is letting go, and since I'm not that attached to turkey it wasn't even that hard to let go of the idea of eating a massive bird.

But it was hard letting go of wanting to eat Grandma Mimi's pomegranate salad, and the ham that aunt Shelly always gets because she's just nice that way, and the baked goat cheese with olives that only cousin Rainbo knows how to make. I wish I could somehow instantly transport myself to Martinez, California with Christian and the kids so we could be with family that we love and miss so much. I would make the mashed potatoes and gravy, Christian would make the bread, and the kids would jump in the trampoline, or as Enzo calls it the jumpoline, with their cousins. After dinner, a good scrabble game, and a bag full of left overs were packed for us, we would instantly transport ourselves back to the tropics.

Dreaming is good but living in the present is better, so I've decided to just embrace this day. Who cares that no one else in the town is celebrating Thanksgiving? And who cares that instead of roasting a turkey we'll be roasting a fish. I'm actually really excited about the fish, it was caught earlier this morning. I'm also excited that I get to spend Thanksgiving with my sweet friend from High-School, Thais Silva, who's vacationing here for 2 weeks with her Italian husband and her half Italian baby girl. I'm pretty convinced that I need to learn Italian. I'm not sure what her husband is saying but it all sounds beautiful. Yesterday at the beach he turned to her and said something that sounded so romantic I got chills up my spine, I asked her what he said and it turns out he was just telling her to not forget her flip-flops and to please rinse off the baby so they wouldn't get sand in the Taxi. I'm happy I get to spend Thanksgiving with them and with my own husband and kids.

Our Thanksgiving menu looks a bit different this year.

// Instead of turkey we're having fish
// Instead of pomegranate salad we're having green papaya salad
// Instead of cranberry sauce we're having passion fruit sauce
// Instead of rolls we're having pao de queijo 
// Instead of mashed potatoes with sour cream we're having mashed potatoes with table cream
// Instead of pies we're having pies. That's right we're having this, and this, and this pie. Somethings you just can't give up.

Children Inspire Design - Please and Thank You Print Giveaway

Hi friends, I have a charming little giveaway for you today in the spirit of Thanksgiving. Children Inspire Design is a beautiful shop that features posters, wall art, and wall cards, that carry messages to children helping them to be more conscientious of the world and people around them.

Today I get to giveaway one of the loveliest prints I have ever seen, Say Please and Thank You. I think this print would go beautifully in any dinning room wall.

I feel like saying "please" is the absolute least we can do and saying "thank you" is an honor. So today, as we gear up for Thanksgiving I want to thank you, my readers, for coming and visiting me here at Kitchen Corners day in and day out. I honestly feel honored that you do.

Thank you to the moon and back.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

The Prize: 1 Say Please and Thank You poster from Children Inspire Design. Must have a U.S mailing address.

To Enter: Leave a comment. Any comment will do, but if you want I'd love to know one thing you are thankful for.+1 more comment: You can get more entries by becoming a Kitchen Corners' Follower using Google Friend Connect on the sidebar. 

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Giveaway closes: Midnight Tuesday PST November 29. The winner will be randomly selected, contacted via email, and announced next Thursday.

How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookies without a Mixer

Christian can tell you that you don't need a mixer to actually mix anything, specially a simple batch of cookies. Oh wait, Christian does tell me that every single time I turn on my Kitchen Aid. I do own a Kitchen Aid stand up mixer you know and I do love it very much. In fact my mixer is being babysat, or mixersat, or whatever, by a very good friend * I'm waving hi to Victoria*. 

Yesterday I made egg whites peak using nothing but my bare hands, a whisk, and a bowl. So did your grandmother back in the day, that is true. And before you turn away from this crazy chocolate chip cookie recipe that has peaked egg whites let me assure you that this recipe does in fact NOT have egg whites, at least not eggs wites separated from egg yolks. The egg whites were for chocolate pudding.

I know, I'm totally going off on a tangent but something about being the 5,476th person on the internet to post a chocolate chip cookie recipe makes me feel really relaxed. The chances of anyone in the universe putting "chocolate chip cookies" in a search engine and this post coming up are kind of like zero. Which is why I feel like I can tell you anything *waving hi to all my readers, my readers who knows about my love for tangents*

So here are some secrets/not so secrets you should know

Where Food Meets Fashion

So apparently Lady Gaga is not the only person who likes to wear food on her body. Fox online has a special feature on most outrageous food clothing, a fun slide show to check out.

Just tell me one thing, would you ever wear a meat bikini, or as fashion would call it a meatkini?

Hello Weekend!

I can't believe Thanksgiving is less than a week away. I also can't believe I'm not in the U.S of A. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy living in paradise but paradise does not have cranberry sauce, or turkey, or sour cream to add to the mashed potatoes. Regardless, on Thursday we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving. We're not entirely sure what it's going to look or taste like but we'll try our best and we'll for sure make pumpkin pie.

Here are some good reads to keep you company as you wait to board your plane

// Faux Pumpkin Pie Place Cards
// Communal Table: Thanksgiving Recipes from our Friends
// Best Personal Pie Makers
// 15 Kitchen Tools for Thanksgiving
// Holiday Gift Guide: Books on Food

I know a lot of you are traveling this week to be with family. I wish you safe travels and that you may return with a full belly and good memories.

Cake Ladies: Celebrating a Southern Tradition Giveaway

The lovely Jodi Rodhen from Short Street Cakes recently published her most recent book Cake Ladies: Celebrating a Southern Tradition.

In this book Jodie shines a spot light on 17 diverse Southern women, known as cake ladies, who show their love through the cakes they bake. Cake Ladies also features 21 signature recipes such as Vanilla Almond Pound Cake, Mississippi Mud Cake, and Vegan Red Velvet Cupcakes. I love a good cookbook that not only shares recipes but also shares life stories.

Cake Ladies sounds like a perfect book to read during this season of food, food, and more food. I'm so excited I get to give a copy away to you.

The Prize: 1 copy of Cake Ladies: Celebrating a Southern Tradition Must have a U.S or Canada mailing address.

To Enter: Leave a comment any comment will do, but if you want I'd love to know what your favorite cake is.+1 more comment: You can get more entries by becoming a Kitchen Corners' Follower using Google Friend Connect on the sidebar. 

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Giveaway closes: Midnight Wednesday PST November 23. The winner will be randomly selected, contacted via email, and announced next Thursday.

Cereal Box Houses

Hello cereal boxes in my recycling bin, let's pull you out and make you into beautiful little houses shall we?

You can get the full tutorial over at Bella Dia. 

iPad Apps and Dinner

Lately the iPad App that's getting the most attention in our home is the new Green Kitchen- healthy Vegetarian Recipes App by our friends from Green Kitchen Stories. For me the hardest part about making food is the planning. You can put $500 worth of groceries in front of me and tell me to make something and I'll scream but if you put a good cooking App in front of me I can easily come up with a handful of ideas of things I want to make.

Every Sunday night I plan the menu for the week. Normally I enjoy doing this with my cookbooks but since my cookbooks are all in storage in a garage in California I'm now going to my iPad for inspiration.

We also have a new arrangement in our home, where everyone minus Baby Maria plans at least one dinner a week. Not only that but whoever is in charge of dinner has to also do the grocery shopping for whatever ingredients are missing. This has diminished my stress ten fold. Now I only have to worry about Wednesday and Thursday nights, and Saturdays because Enzo's idea of meal planning includes three courses of desserts.

I'm really happy with this new arrangement and we've been eating way better too. Mostly because when I plan meals it often involves deep frying something, anything, and when Christian is planning a meal it often involves fresh veggies, lots of colors, and no meat.

Last week Christian made a variation of the Involtini di Melanzane from the Green Kitchen App. He stuffed those eggplans full of bulgar wheat, spices, tomatoes, garlic, and kale. Every bite was insanely flavorful.

You will often see Christian in the kitchen with the iPad, it has definitely become our favorite tool for finding a recipe. Last week the New York Times published an article about cooking Apps, Are Cookbooks Obsolete? I read it and then I immediately purchased the Dorie Greenspan App they mentioned in the article. I recommend reading the New York Times article, I also recommend the Dorie Greenspan App.

What about you, are there any cooking Apps you recommend?
Does your iPad live in your kitchen?

Lost in a Food Desert

Last week I posted about Global Mobile Family, and their amazing trip around the world on their bikes with 4 small children. We sat around in my living room while the parents, Julie and Martin, showed me their camping kitchen gear. Christian and I were so inspired by their biking trip that we have officially decided to travel around South America before we head back to California next year. How privileged we are! There is no way to deny it.

Today I was inspired by a different dad and a different bike story. Owen Smith bikes 3 miles round trip to  get to a supermarket where he can buy fresh fruits and veggies for his kids. Smith lives in Avondale, one of seven poor neighborhoods in Cincinnati, where junk food is plentiful but healthy food is not. In his neighborhood Smith can find 6 convenience stores, 12 fast food restaurants but not one super market.

Have you heard of the term food desert? Well, Owen and his kids live in one.

If you have 5 extra minutes in your day I recommend watching this.

Now here's the thing Owen Smith, well Owen Smith inspires me. He is definitely an example of a dedicated dad and I think his story needs to be celebrated, talked about, and then used as an example so that new policies can be created to help everyone get access to healthy foods. I'm glad Owen Smith is dedicated and conscientious about food, but honestly I was pretty freaked out watching the video of him having to navigate 100 pounds of food on his bike through dangerous traffic.

In other words I strongly believe that access to healthy foods is a systemic problem, not an individual one. 

Thoughts?

Hello Weekend!

Hi friends how was your week? Mine was full and then some. We have a long weekend due to a Holiday on Tuesday. That means Enzo doesn't go back to school until Wednesday. I'm looking forward to some quality snuggle time with my family. This week was emotionally charged. Did I tell you we're trying to adopt a child while we're here in Brazil? Did I tell you how complicated it is? Oh boy.

On a lighter note

// I think these women plates are fabulous. Black and white plates on a blue and white wall, what could be more simple and more pleasing to the eyes than that?
// This is what I think my kids are getting for Christmas. I'm intrigued by the idea of Rescue Gifts. Have you ever done something like this before?
// On Wednesday The Guardian is hosting a live discussion on the role of business in creating sustainable food systems. Shall we tune in and see what our friends in the UK have to say about sustainable foods?
// Have you heard of Cafe Nordo a place where food and theater comes together. Seattle is so cool.
// Portland is cool too, like so cool. Portland already has tool libraries where you can borrow a power drill for example. Now they're creating a kitchen tool library where you can go and borrow a bread maker. Love it.
// This is the Season for food drives. If you're organizing one in your are and you need a poster to get the word out, then use this one. It's well designed, it gets the message out, and you can customize it.

Have a fun weekend my friends.
I hope you get some good snuggle time with those you love.
xoxo

Kitchen Gear for Traveling Around the World

Please tell me you've planned an around the world trip before. Please tell me you've planned many. I love to dream big and because I love to travel my dreams often include traveling. In my heart and in my mind I've planned many around the world trips. Actually, planning is not the right word because planning requires a lot of time and a lot of dedication as I learned these past two days with Martin and Julie from Global Mobile Family.

Ever since Moses (5 yrs.) was born Martin and Julie started planning their around the world trip. This energetic couple from Germany and England decided that before Moses started school at the age of 6 they were going to spend some serious family time together and travel around the world on their bikes. In the last 5 years Martin and Julie have added 3 more children to their family, Caspar (4 yrs.), Tirus (2 yrs.), and Herbie (1 yr). Now the 6 of them are traveling the world via bikes and planes and this past week they came to Itacare Bahia Brazil, where we had the opportunity to host them.

Today our new friends left, they're biking 55km this afternoon and then some more the next day and making their way to Salvador Bahia where in a couple of weeks they fly to Australia to continue their trip. Their route is amazing. Their story is amazing. So, what does it take to get to the point where you feel comfortable taking 4 small children around the world for the space of 14 months? First it takes a killer personality, both of wich Martin and Julie have in abundance.

iPhone Cutting Board

An iPhone cutting board that can be used as landscape or portrait. How many people can you think of that would love this? I can think of at least a dozen.

Alexia Giveaway

I've got a fun giveaway today brought to you my some of my favorite peeps to work with, Alexia Foods. I along with 21 other bloggers worked with Alexia Foods in the campaign to reinvent a classic, by coming up with a new flavor of fries. You can read about my french fry party here and the flavor I created here.

My flavor was not picked as one of the 4 finalists. No biggie, because the flavors that were picked were well chosen. And now the best part is that we can vote for the new flavor of fries that will be sold in your supermarket.

Visit Alexia Fries on Facebook and vote. All voters will be eligible to download a $1 off coupon for any Alexia product. In addition all voters will be entered to win an exclusive meal for two in San Francisco, all expense paid, prepared by the ever so charming Tyler Florence.

And here on Kitchen Corners we're giving away a gift bundle to one lucky winner where you'll get an autographed copy of Tyler Florence's latest book - Family Meal, 3 coupons for a FREE Alexia product, and an Alexia apron. Seriously, I hope you win!

The Prize: An autographed copy of Tyler Florence's latest book Family Meal, 3 coupons for a FREE Alexia product, and an Alexia Apron. Must have a U.S mailing address.

To Enter: Leave a comment any comment will do.+1 more comment: You can get more entries by becoming a Kitchen Corners' Follower using Google Friend Connect on the sidebar. 

 +1 more comment: By subscribing via RSS or email to Kitchen Corners' feeds. 

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Giveaway closes: Midnight Tuesday PST November 15. The winner will be randomly selected, contacted via email, and announced next Wednesday.

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This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Melissa.

An Eskimo Cookbook, a Way of Life

Good did a short piece on revisiting an Eskimo Cookbook that was originally written by students of Shishmaref Day School back in 1951. The book features recipes of the Inupiaq village, just 20 miles south of the Arctic Circle, where people enjoy dishes such as Muktuk - raw whale blubbler enjoyed frozen with salt and sometimes seal oil.

Today, due to the changing seascape resulting in a leaner yield of  fish the Shishmaref  rely on other foods to survive, foods very different than what they were used to eating in 1951.

I love that a cookbook written by kids for a school project serves today as a testament of how life is changing for the Shishmaref people.

Pineapple Glazed Salmon

Pineapple Glazed Salmon

(printable version)

(serves 4)

• 2 lbs fresh salmon fillet
• ½ cup crushed pineapples
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• ½ tablespoons fresh shredded ginger; pealed
• sunflower sprouts for garnish

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cut salmon fillet into 4 equal-size pieces, skin side down, and lay fillets side by side in a baking dish.
3. Make the glaze by stirring the crushed pineapples, soy sauce, lemon juice, and ginger in a small mixing bowl with a wooden spoon.
4. Pour glaze over the fish.
5. Bake until fish is opaque but still bright pink in the center for 12-15 minutes.
6. Rinse the sunflower sprouts and use for garnish on top of the fish.

Açai on the Beach

I'm raising beach bums. Baby Maria wakes up and asks "beach?" It doesn't matter if we go to the beach 3 times a day she's never beached-out.

Enzo on the other hand hates leaving the house. If he had it his way he would never leave the house. But then... when he does leave the house he's totally content and has a great time. Is this a 5 year old thing? I don't really get it.

Two children raised by the same parents with totally different personalities. What else is knew?

One of the things they have in common is the munchies. Does it matter if I feed them a huge breakfast before we go to the beach? No. About 20 minutes of running around and digging in the sand and swimming is enough to make them hungry. Oh, another thing they totally have in common is their hunger-mood, the funk they feel when they're hungry. They get that from me.

Knowing this I come prepared, prepared with our metal cups from home so the guy who sells Açai on the beach can fill them up with frozen Açai, granola, bananas, and honey.

A cup of one of these and we're good to go for another couple hours, building sand castles, making sand forts, swimming, pretend swimming, surfing, pretend surfing ...

Mugs on SVPPLY

Do you love Pinterest? So do I. And now I'm digging SVPPLY too, another fun way to bookmark products - for gift ideas, for future purchases, for inspiration, for pure eye-candy.

check it out

// Upcycled Modern Stacking Mustache Mugs
// Mr. Tea Pink Teacup and Saucer
// Suspended Animation Cup and Saucer

Food at Rio de Contas

I hope you had a lovely weekend. Our weekend was filled with sunshine, family time, and a lot of eating. On Saturday we went on a canoe ride up the river, Rio de Contas, to visit a waterfall. The river boarders the Atlantic Rainforest and the whole thing is truly majestic.



It's fun seeing the fishing boats and the canoes go by bringing fruits and other foods to neighboring towns and villages.

Another fun thing about the river are the islands, and the restaurants on the islands, open aired restaurants serving fresh fish, fresh yucca, fresh coconut, and fresh bananas.

Basically, this is what our weekend looked and tasted like.

Ten points for you if you know the name of that fruit above. 

Kale Juice

I'm going to tell you a story because I like telling stories, because parenting isn't parenting without a good handful of stories to tell.

We have this rule in our house that Enzo needs to try everything we put on his plate. On Monday I made rice, beans, green papaya salad, and sauteed kale, for lunch. Rice and beans he'll happily eat, the other two side dishes he wasn't stoked about. When that happens, meaning every single meal, he gets his die and he rolls it. Depending on what number he rolls that's how many bites he has to take. This is a full on event where I'm cheering loudly for him to roll a number six and he's screaming "One. One. One" as loud as he can. This technique only works because Enzo loves games. If you can make something into a game I promise you he'll play along. You know those people who go on the show Surviver and eat nasty things and call it fun? Well, either Enzo will be on Surviver when he grows up or those 30 something year olds who go on that show have the maturity level of a 5 year old boy.

Actually that's a totally bad comparison because kale is delicious and Surviver food is not.

Roost Blog

I'm always giddy when I find a new food blog, specially if it's spectacular. I would say that Roost is spectacular but that might be an understatement.

Last night I was reading Erin's blog Jane Reaction, when she briefly mentioned that Roost is the most beautiful food blog in the world. Basically I trust all of Erin's taste so I followed the link and then spend a good hour just pouring through post after post of beautiful writing and breathtaking pictures.

In an ideal life I would be friends with these people and they would feed me.
In real life I've Pinned a couple of their recipes and hope I get a chance to try them sooner rather than later.

Here are a handful I'd like to try

// Herbed Flatbread with Prosciutto
// Pear Tart
// Orange Blossom Cupcake with Cashew Cream
// Spiced Baklava
// Raw Cheesecake

Were you familiar with Roost?
What food blogs take your breath away?

Homemade Caramel Sauce

Last night we fell asleep to the sound of rain and today we woke up to lower temperatures and more rain. I'm a big time lover of heat and sunshine but I'm also thankful for a cool breeze once in a while. Today we're wearing pants and long sleeve shirts, trust me that's saying a lot for where we live. So for breakfast we had warm pancakes with hot caramel sauce, it was the perfect way to start our coldy day.

This caramel sauce is a variation of this buttermilk caramel sauce, the one I mentioned to you last week, the one I really wanted to try. Well, I tried it out, made a few tweaks, and now we have plenty of caramel sauce, and as you can guess no one is complaining.

This sauce is sweet, but not tooth-achingly sweet. It has a nice vanilla depth to it and a creamy, almost frothy texture. Enzo likes it when I drizzle it on warm Frech bread. I'm thinking it would be awesome with donut waffles and probably even more awesome with some some pumpkin spice pull apart bread.
You can dip apples into it, or pour it over some vanilla ice cream. Better yet use those apples to make an apple pie, then put a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a generous slice, and then top it with homemade caramel sauce. Really, the possibilities are endless.

Caramel Sauce
(printable version)


1 cup milk
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
2/3 cup white granulated sugar
2/3 cup dark brown sugar
1/3 cup butter
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp Vanilla

1. In a large sauce pan add the milk and the vinegar and let it stand for a minute. Then add the white and the brown sugar and the butter and mix over medium heat until it starts to boil.
2. Remove from heat and whisk in the baking soda and the vanilla. It will start to bubble up a lot, this is totally normal because of the baking soda.
3. Let the sauce cool down to room temperature before using it.