More than just Cookies

So my favorite things to bake are cookies and especially sandwich cookies. Someone asks and I will whip a whoopie cookie right up. However, over Thanksgiving weekend I wanted to make something new and different than the traditional pies that are commonly eaten over Holidays. I decided to make this Pear Cranberry Slab Pie from Martha Stewart. It was delicious! I plan on saving this recipe and hopefully one day soon making it into a more individual smaller pies.

http://www.marthastewart.com/1035237/pear-cranberry-slab-pie?center=0&gallery=1042732&slide=%3Fxsc%3Dsoc_pin_2013_11_20_Holiday_Thanksgiving_B&1035237&crlt.pid=camp.js9YduSGpAay

I luckily was able to share my creation with some of my family and friends, and it was a huge success. You should try it, or ask me to make it for you sometime, I don't think you'll regret it!

Pictures below..

And of course Martha's picture of the final project, mine got eaten up before I had a chance to snap a picture.

Man I wish I had a food stylist on hand. And a ladder. And a pro photographer. 

xoxo,

kravings

Introducing kravings!!

Daddy Kim turned the Big 6-0!!

Love my family, just some pictures to show how much I love them and what a great time we had!

banana coconut bread…mmmmm..

all i want to do is bake. i'm trying out new recipes and i am really happy with the way this one turned out. thought i would share this mmmmm sweet picture.

All love

I've been listening a lot to Ingrid Michaelson, all her matter of the heart songs. This one below is called All Love, the lyrics aren't anything special, but I love LOVE and this song is all love, it's all my stupid love.

When I push the sheets away

From your face and watch you sleep all day here

And when I push you away

And say you simply cannot stay here

It's all love, all love

It's all of my stupid love

When I say you take away

The most important parts of me with you

And when I've had the grayest day

You add more gray, that's just your way, it's true

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all of my stupid love

You can't be the one to kill the pain anymore

You let me in but then you slam my fingers in the door

I've had enough but I keep asking you to give me more

When I say that there's no way

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all of my stupid love

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all love, all love, oh

It's all of my stupid love

this is how i feel about politics.

Okay so this is not how I fully feel about politics but I do feel that with Obama winning this election I want to leave the country and just go travel. Mostly I want to travel. But I guess even though I am disappointed with this election and another four years of Obama, I still want to stay in my country and support America.

God bless America.

I think we'll really need it now.

rhett butler

i have never been so in love with a fictional character. that is before rhett butler. i don't think i've ever been in love with a character in a book. there are the twi hards that love edward or jacob and then there are even the classics like Mr. Darcy. but yeah those guys do nothing for me. i guess the love did start from a young age watching the Gone with the Wind movie, i mean who doesn't love clark gable! now i just recently finished reading the book, which was quite the challenge for me since one it is a marathon and then two when i've seen the movie it's hard for me to read the book since i feel that i already know what is going to happen. i just loved the book and i just love rhett butler and scarlett o'hara. especially at first scarlett,  she is such the heroine for me because of how strong she is and the things that she fights for. i loved how she would start to worry about things and then she would have to get it out of her head, "i can't think about that now, i'll think about that tomorrow." i guess in the book she did start to bother me because she became a very frustrating person to the ones that loved her, including myself. and by the ones that love her i mean rhett butler. these two just break my heart, that they just can't seem to work things out. why won't you two just talk to each other and tell each other how you really feel!!! anyways back to rhett… i guess i just love love! rhett loves scarlett, rhett loves bonnie. and nothing is more important than his love for them.

i don't think i'm much of a crier, ha maybe i am, but i was literally reading my book in the park and crying! i'm such a sap for this story, for scarlett, for melanie and oh my for rhett!

to rhett with much love.