Taylor's Ham

where food and music and Taylor Swift collide

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  • Recipe Attempted: Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies with Peanut Butter Cinnamon Cream

    Flourless peanut butter chocolate chip cookies with peanut butter cinnamon cream are a mouthful, but well worth the effort required to pull them off. Read more

  • Taylor Swift IS the Girl Next Door

    In today’s New York Times, there’s an article in the Sunday Styles section about Kelly Clarkson, the role model next door, as it were. Now, don’t get me wrong. I think Kelly Clarkson’s great. And she’s definitely a role model. As the article points out numerous times, Kelly isn’t exactly your typical pop star (think: Read more

  • Recipe Attempted: Apple Crisp

    Perhaps the most delicious of its ilk, apple crisp’s cinnamon and nutmeg flavors invigorate the senses. This recipe is easy-to-follow and yields delectable results. Read more

  • Taylor’s Ham is moving to taylorsham.com!

    Taylor’s Ham is proud to announce its new domain, taylorsham.com, starting today. For those of you who follow me via RSS, please adjust your feed. Don’t worry. The same ol’ inspired content will flood your reader from taylorsham.com. See you in cyberspace. Read more

  • alphabet soup: a new podcast about food and words

    I came across this new podcast about food and words called alphabet soup. You might check it out! In episode 1, Autumn interviews Kate Payne, author of The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking. They talk about farmer’s markets, concord grapes, and their favorite poets. Pretty interesting! Read more

  • San Diego Food Tour

    Recently, I went to San Diego with my dining partner. We toured all the sites to see: San Diego Zoo, Gaslamp Quarter, Wild Animal Safari, In N Out Burger. You get the idea. It was a great trip, but I wasn’t overly impressed by the food out west. This is what we ate: Banana ice Read more

  • Genius question of the day

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  • Raspberry Summer Cake

    For most people, baking in August is anathema. But given the glorious weather on this August day, I thought, What the hell, let me bake a cake. Yesterday, I went fruit and vegetable picking at Lawrence Farms in Newburgh, NY. We collected peaches, plums, peppers, corn, and raspberries. As we paid for our produce, a gigantic Read more

  • New blog: yelp: Reviewed

    I decided to start a new blog, yelp: Reviewed. Don’t worry, I won’t neglect Taylor’s Ham. (I know, you’re worried.) I’m fascinated by Yelp. It’s one of the worst websites on the Internet, in my opinion. Whenever I listen to Yelpers’ recommendations, I am sorely disappointed. Thus, yelp: Reviewed came to fruition. On yelp: Reviewed, Read more

  • From the source: Buckeyes

    I’m not a candy person. When people rave over chocolate (especially dark chocolate), I roll my eyes and think about hamburgers. I’m just not that into it. But when I saw this Buckeyes recipe advertised on Shi’s Eating, I couldn’t resist. My partner has a fond place for peanut butter and chocolate in his belly, Read more