The Carrot Cake Disaster

May 17, 2020 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, life lessons

For years, my favorite cake has been carrot cake. Every birthday, that is what I request. Historically, it is my grandmother’s carrot cake that I really want—with golden raisins, home-whipped cream cheese frosting, and frosted with pecan bits. Of course, these days, my aunt has taken up my grandmother’s mantle. However, in quarantine, I can’t really see my aunt...or that carrot cake.

Last week, I decided with all the free time on my hands, I would make a carrot cake. Because I live alone, I am very particular to not make or buy desserts too often because who will eat them all? Me. Following this logic, I did not want to a rich carrot cake that I would resent when I devoured 10,000 calories in three days—or less. I opted for a healthy recipe I found online where the cream cheese frosting was really just nonfat Greek yogurt, nonfat cream cheese, and maple syrup (truly, the frosting was one of the best parts of this recipe).

The rest of the recipe didn’t seem too dramatic.

How to Vacation Without a Stove: an Airbnb Story

October 13, 2016 by astoldoverbrunch in Guest Post, Humor, Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Leisure

I have a standing vacation date with my best friend from high school. Ever since the two of us graduated college and she moved up to NYC, I’ve taken the train to visit her for an extended girls’ weekend.

But this year, both of us confessed that we felt more burnt out than usual. We’d talked about vacation plans near the end of February when the world was cold and dreary. Maybe we should go somewhere new? Work had me so exhausted that all I wanted to do was sit on a beach somewhere and not move for hours. While walking ten miles through Manhattan each day is fun, that wasn’t the vacation I needed this year.

So rather than buying my usual train ticket, I started searching Airbnb for places all up and down the East Coast.

How to Make Cauliflower Pizza

September 01, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Sara's Column, Tweets and Mascara

When I was in the heat of my competitive weight loss program, I experimented a lot with cauliflower in place of flour. Basically, you throw a ton of cauliflower into a food processor, then ring it out dry and use it as the base of a few recipes. I tried a few, and they all sucked until I made pizza crust out of cauliflower. I’ve never shared a recipe on our blog before, but what the hell – let’s talk about mature topics like cooking and recipes these days since I’m getting older in life and this is what adults talk about.

Here’s how to make the crust, and then I’ll give two suggestions on what to put on top.