Hilah Cooking

You know those cellophane bags of “shortcakes” you can pick up in the produce section, usually right next to the plastic sacks of “strawberry” glaze? Well, I have some bad news. I destroyed all of those in several small arson jobs. And I infested the factories than make them with toucans.

I know, I know, I should have talked to you first before I stole all those toucans from the Froot Loops factory and released them into the ventilation system of the fake strawberry product factory, but really I was doing you a favor.

Traditional, homemade shortcakes are infinitely better tasting than those stale old sponge cake bowls; and my strawberry sauce has TWO special ingredients that will make you go Whoomp. There it is.
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Huge thanks to Amy from WhatJewWannaEat for coming on the show and sharing her recipe with us!

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Once upon a time there was an annoyingly healthy spinach salad that sort of sat around all day looking pert and perky and full of nutrients, basically making an ass of itself, like it was some big deal or something.

Whatever.

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I was talking to my friend Estrella the other day and remembering the first time we made these together with her mother, Adriana. Estrella and I were in our early twenties, maybe even just twenty years old. It was my dad’s birthday dinner and you know, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, I [...]

This is seriously like the easiest recipe in the universe, but I’ve also said that before about other recipes so you probably don’t want to take that statement literally, but it is super-duper easy. In under 5 minutes, watch as some stuff you found in your fridge turns magically into an appetizer you could take to [...]

Shepherd’s pie has got to be one of the yummiest things on the planet and I can not BELIEVE it’s taken me this long to post about it. It’s kind of weird, like I used to make this a lot when I was vegetarian, but then I started digging on the animals again and left [...]

Listen up because I’m about to tell you about the secret ingredient for the most moistest and deliciousest chocolate cupcakes in the Whole Ding-Dong Wuuurld! I first had these, or a version of them, at the Austin Bakes for Bastrop fundraiser we volunteered at last year. A fellow Austinite made hers for the sale and [...]