Jessie Cross
Jessie Cross is a cookbook author and creator of The Hungry Mouse, a monster online food blog w/500+ recipes. When she's not shopping for cheese or baking pies, Jessie works as an advertising copywriter in Boston. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts with her husband and two small, fluffy wolves.
Molasses Ginger Drop Cookies
Call me crazy, but when I've had a long day, there's something really satisfying about going home and baking cookies.
The dough is simple to throw together. They don't take long in the oven. And...
Thick Crust Sausage & Cheese Pizza
This is another incidence of me combining homemade bread with pork products. If it happens again, I might just have a problem. I can admit that.
While it's not necessarily a fast thing to cook...
Gummi Bear Love: Sweet Decorating Ideas
Gummi bears are my favorite candy. Hands down. And while any gummi bear will do in a pinch, I definitely like Haribo Gold-Bears the best.
Needless to say, I lost my mind when I saw...
A New Santoku Knife, in Pink for the Cure
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. While there's no breast cancer in my family, it affects hundreds of thousands of people each year.
Now, I'm not really one to get up on a pulpit....
Rustic Apple Galette
This may be the shortest intro in Hungry Mouse history. We're out the door in a few minutes on our way to a party, but here's what we're bringing.
A galette is basically a rustic...
Lentil Soup & Friday Night in the South of France
It's just about 9 o'clock on Friday night and it's 53 degrees in Boston—which is officially soup weather in my book. It's late to be starting a pot of soup, but somehow that's not...
Roasted Rosemary-Garlic Acorn Squash
This has got to be my favorite way to cook squash, short of doing that kind-of-horrifying-but-still-embarrassingly-yummy thing where you mash it up with butter then bake it under a snowy blanket of marshmallows.
Think of...
Sweet Pork Ciderhouse Stew
This is one of my ultimate comfort foods.
It's got a lovely balance of sweet and savory flavors from the combination of apple cider, cinnamon, chicken stock, browned meat, and a smidge of apricot preserves.
A...
Tuesday’s Bento
Ooof, what a crazy day!
Thankfully, I had a really nice lunch, courtesy of my dear husband, The Angry Chef. I told him last night that my day today would most likely be nuts, so...
Brown-Sugar Cranberry Sauce
Ever since I was a kid, cranberry sauce has always been one of my favorite things about the fall.
Most of the time, my mom made homemade cranberry sauce.
Now, she's an amazing cook.
Sometimes, though, if...