Tina's Chic Corner

Kitchen Organization

September 1st, 2013Tina10 Comments

As a neat freak I have a tendency to want to organize things. I really enjoy organizing things, a lot. Yea, I’m not sure if that’s weird or not, but whatever. When I started writing this post, my husband told me our kitchen is neat, but not organized. What?! Well, it seems this appears to be subjective. I can find everything very easily and he can’t find anything at all without asking me all the time where things are. Is that because I was the person who did the organizing? If you do the organizing, does that mean the …

Homemade Chipwich

August 29th, 2013Tina29 Comments

When I was a kid my family and I used vacation in Lake George, NY. For one week, almost every year, our life was all about miniature golf, pool time, and cheesy shops on the main drag down town. We especially looked forward to visiting a bakery that sold chipwiches. They were huge and delicious! Sadly, the bakery closed a bunch of years back cutting off our supply. No more chipwiches! We were so disappointed. It’s been about 10 years since that happened and we still talk about how we miss those infamous chipwiches. These homemade chipwiches are identical to …

Black Bean Spread

August 27th, 2013Tina18 Comments

My husband and I love hummus, especially my Easy Hummus recipe. We love black beans at least as much as we love chick peas. This got the gears turning… “I wonder if we can make hummus using black beans?” Well, we love Mexican food too (which of course regularly features black beans) and decided that would be a great place to start for the seasonings. By the time we were done, we had created a Mexican inspired black bean based “hummus.” I must give joint credit to my husband for helping me create this awesome recipe. Love you, babe. …

Chocolate Crumb Cake

August 25th, 2013Tina43 Comments

Oh yea, two of my favorite things combined into one fabulous dish, chocolate and crumb topping! How can you go wrong…you simply can’t. 🙂 My Perfect Crumb Cake came out so amazing so I wanted to experiment with how I could incorporate chocolate into that traditional crumb cake recipe. This chocolate crumb cake came out a-maze-ing! Can you picture me singing that to you? Hopefully not because I’m not the greatest singer. Lol. The chocolate cake layer is dense, moist, and rich and it’s covered with a layer of cinnamon and sugary crumb topping and miniature chocolate chips. If you’re saying “oh my!” then you’d …

Baking Cookies 101

August 22nd, 2013Tina10 Comments

I love baking, especially cookies. I’m known for making dozens of different cookies at Christmas time. I’ve learned so much over the years, especially on my recent quest to find the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie (which I feel I did). All this research and practice means I have a lot to say about baking cookies, and specifically chocolate chip cookies. Maybe I should have called this post “The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie: Part 2” because it goes hand in hand with the recipe, but it would have been a crazy long post. If you are only interested in the recipe then feel free …