Kirbie's Cravings

Apple Cider Bread

This apple cider bread is easy to make and tastes delicious. It’s made with hard apple cider, fresh apples, and apple butter so it’s loaded with flavor. The texture is similar to yeast bread without having to use yeast and it smells amazing while it...

4 Ingredient Homemade Thin Mints

Crunchy chocolate cookies coated with a chocolate mint coating. This is an easy recipe for homemade Thin Mints and you only need four ingredients to make them. The other day I saw a Girl...

Rakiraki

We recently revisited Rakiraki. The menu has expanded quite dramatically since it first opened about a year and a half ago. On this latest visit, we noticed that they also redid their actual physical...

Chinese Lettuce Wraps

Chinese lettuce wraps are easy to make and great as an appetizer, snack, or light dinner. This version is made with ground turkey and a savory sauce made with hoisin and soy sauce with...

Love To Go

Love To Go is a cafe located in the San Gabriel Mission District that specializes in 3D latte art. I love cute latte art, which seems to be trending in Los Angeles (hopefully we’ll...

Cookies and Cream Blondies

I’ve been wanting to make a cookies and cream blondie that is actually thick and chewy rather than cakey and I finally was able to this weekend. These are super easy to make. You...

Trader Joe’s February Edition

It’s been a while since Trader Joe’s last Fearless Flyer. Even Mr. K was wondering when the next flyer would come out. So when we received it in the mail, I was all over...

Pacific Beach Fish Shop

Our current restaurant obsession is Pacific Beach Fish Shop. I’ve never been a huge fish taco fan, but I can’t get enough of the fresh fish tacos here, especially grilled with their special Fish...

Red Velvet Cupcake Tasting

Happy Valentine’s Day! Since it is Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d write about a recent red velvet cupcake tasting I attended with a group of friends, where 13 different cupcakes were tasted to find...

Soft Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Cookies

As promised, here is my attempt at making red velvet cookies from scratch. I baked several batches over the last few days. I made chewy ones, soft ones, cakey ones. My favorite were these...

King Eggroll

King Eggroll is one of my favorite spots to revisit when I go back to the Bay Area. My siblings and I have developed a tradition to go at least once a year, usually...

Red Velvet Pancakes

Continuing with my red velvet baking mania, I recently tried making red velvet pancakes. I really love red velvet pancakes. Whenever I see it on a breakfast menu, I feel compelled to order it....