Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting

This may or may not be a belated Christmas post BUT chocolate and peppermint are delicious no matter the time of year. Boyfriend and I managed to tackle a...

Bleu Cheese Buffalo Burgers

    Boyfriend currently has an obsession with anything “buffalo”, in other words containing buffalo sauce and bleu cheese. He’ll ask me what’s for dinner and when I respond,...

Homemade Ketchup

A Duck’s Oven just made the move from Eugene to Portland. It was sad and scary and really, really sad, but the adventure has been fun thus far! I’m...

Cake in a Can

I have been stock-piling tin cans for weeks. Let me rephrase: I have been too lazy to take the recycling out for weeks. I found myself with lots and...

How To: Survive Autzen

Oh, my beloved Autzen. How harmless you look in the bright light of day, in a moment when the sun is actually shining in Oregon. Some of my absolute...

Pumpkin Ghost Cupcakes

This week, I absolutely needed to make something using my mini-cupcake pan and Halloween-themed. It only seemed appropriate that this baked good be of the pumpkin variety, since it...