Just a reminder that this Saturday (tomorrow), San Diego bloggers like myself are participating in the National Food Blogger Bake Sale! The event will be held at Great News! Discount Cookware and Cooking School in Pacific Beach from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. All proceeds will benefit Share Our Strength, an organization that fights childhood hunger. While... Continue Reading →
My Milkshake Brings All The Boys to the Yard
I have a bit of a confession. I don't like drinking milkshakes. Somewhere along the way, I drank too many, got the worst stomach ache and that memory has continued to haunt the deep recesses of my mind. Additionally, milkshakes are high calorie with not enough of a satisfying payback. Why get a milkshake when... Continue Reading →
Ménage à trois au lait
The basics for most cakes is flour, eggs, sugar, baking powder, vanilla extract and milk. From there a recipe for can diverge wildly. Sometimes chocolate is incorporated. Butter or oil is used to make it moist. And even carrots have made an appearance. But when a cake includes three types of milk it's daring to... Continue Reading →
I’m all over it like a fat kid on a cupcake
If you haven't heard of Sprinkles Cupcakes you are either not into cupcakes, or never heard of Paris Hilton (and numerous other celebrities) proclaim their love for these little baked delights, or not following food trends... or dead*. Sprinkles Cupcakes is the Prada of cupcakes for the West Coast as Magnolia Bakery is for New... Continue Reading →
Life is not a piece of cake unless they’ve got an easy ride from their parents
In true My Burning Kitchen fashion, I went ahead and mucked up another recipe. Granted, it was a first attempt at an extremely difficult cake. It's the same cake that my mom used to bake for my dad when he would return home from a being overseas for months at a time. My brother and... Continue Reading →
Yule Be Sorry
One of my favorite things about the holidays are the desserts. Pretty cookies. Gorgeous cakes. I want it all regardless of the caloric cost in the end. In San Diego, one of the best places that fulfills all the requirements above is Extraordinary Desserts. From the time I started appreciating food, I knew that Extraordinary... Continue Reading →
Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do?
It's becoming a tradition: regardless of where we travel that we find a local place that sells donuts. Luckily, all of the donuts have been pretty good overall. Aside from our guilty pleasure of going to Dunkin Donuts, we've tasted Voodoo Donuts, Psycho Donuts (a San Jose ripoff of Voodoo), Stardust Donuts near the border at... Continue Reading →
Shave Ice: It’s What’s for Dinner
With summer weather finally hitting Southern California this past weekend, the last thing I want to do was spend it in a kitchen over a hot stove. Consuming hot, steaming food seems less appealing, so the next option? Shave ice. It instantly cools the body and — if you're not careful — can give a... Continue Reading →
Twenty-four hour donut people
I've been having a hard time sleeping lately. I blame in on our teeny, tiny mattress. A mattress, that originally belonged to me originally purchased in the 80s. Additionally with two full grown adults sleeping on a full sized bed, things can get uncomfortable. And have I mentioned I talk in my sleep when I... Continue Reading →
When a person recalls the good old days, he’s really thinking about his bad, young days
I was a horrible kid growing up. As the oldest child, I remember getting into a load of trouble by either cutting my hair, getting reprimanded for talking too much in class and one day instead of going straight to the babysitter's house right after summer school, headed across the street for 15 cent ice cream at Thrifty's.... Continue Reading →
My Burning Kitchen... on the road 