Depending on your powers of observation, you may or may not have noticed a little TLC Cake Crew badge on my blog recently. See? There it is. Most of the time I steer clear of these online cake blog cliques A) Because I’m already in a food gang, and it’s called BrutalSnack, and B) They’re [...]

This Thursday, May 6th, I’m making my second appearance on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight along side Dana Joy Altman of Real Food Rehab and Angie Montroy of Angie’s Pantry. If you watched our last appearance you may remember the Great Macaron Misunderstanding. Well rest assured that we will be clearing up the difference between a French [...]

Last week I dubbed myself a “crusty old bake sailor” because of my new found love of bake sales. This week end I’m sailing the bake sale seas once more, this time to raise money for Chicago’s fabulous WildClaw Theater. You may remember that in October I was a judge for their awesome old time [...]

I made this for my appearance on WTTW, but many of you were too lazy to go look at their website… so here it is! This set of recipes embodies my split personality during the winter months. There’s a side of me that’s ecstatic for the cold weather because it’s an excuse to indulge in [...]

If you were to walk by the Chicago Tonight green room last night you would have seen what appeared to be three very different women nervously making conversation over a basket of peanut butter cookies. Had you come inside with us, though, you would have met three people on a similar mission – to de-stigmatize [...]

Hey Midwest! Catch me  on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight Thursday, January 28th along with Chicago Gluttons and Dana of Real Food Rehab as we discuss eating and blogging in The Big Onion. If you don’t get WTTW in your ‘hood it looks like they post most episodes on their site after they air. You can also [...]

Crappy crolidays, everyone! Well, my birthday has come and gone — Melisser and I got sweet lady bro tats (I promptly found a way to get mine infected) and I also got a GIANT tattoo on my neck. So now that I’ve officially ruined my life, I have a new recipe for you as well [...]

CM Punk Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy! I just want to thank my friend CM Punk for wearing my shirt like, all over the place on his Wrestlemania diary. I got a bunch of cute messages from his female fans on My Space including one girl who said at first she was jealous of [...]

Chicagoist Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy! The Chicagoist posted an interview with me today. I already got one shitty comment, so that’s pretty awesome. Of course it’s from someone who spells poser with a “u” like a total asshole. I’ve been baking with my mom since I was a little kid, but apparently since [...]

It’s a dream come true. Now I just need to be a guest speaker in some one’s class and I will have fulfilled the majority of my nerdy fantasies. A fellow journalism student Chrissy Mahlmeister interviewed me for a class she took over J-term. It was about blogging, I don’t know exactly what the class [...]