Category — Cooking/Baking

Nicole has been talking about her pecan pie that she makes every year for Thanksgiving. She’s planning on bringing it to her boyfriend’s family dinner and she’s been looking for other pecan pie recipes to spice hers up. Nicole has admitted that she’s little nervous about bringing it to his family. What if they don’t like it and her pie is left there on the table, barely touched while everyone else’s dessert is gone?

Rich thinks a lot of people are having anxiety over cooking for the holidays. Everyone wants people to like what they make and as silly as it might seem, it hurts when people reject your dish and it’s just sitting there on the table waiting to be eaten. Ryan can definitely understand the feeling. He likes to cook and, obviously, when he cooks for other people he wants them to like it.

Stan doesn’t really cook, but he sees how stressed his wife gets around the holidays when she has to cook and bake for everyone. She has the exact opposite problem though. Stan has to hide some of her cooking for himself because everyone eats up is wife’s cooking in a hot minute.

There are a lot of people that feel this way, especially if you’re cooking or baking for everyone for the first time. Are you that person? Do you get anxious when you have to bake or cook for the holidays? Have you ever had a dish that didn’t do so well?

Lisa G (from Howard 100 News), and our intern Kenia (and her mother), were nice enough to make cakes for Nicole’s birthday! The left is a Dominican cake, which is filled with pineapple. The right is a vanilla cake, which is Nicole’s favorite. If you want to wish Nicole a happy birthday, then go ahead! The comments area below is all yours!

Every day The Morning Mash Up goes out after the show and grabs breakfast/lunch. Rich orders bacon a lot, but the other day Rich made his own bacon at home and he thought it came out so much better. He has come to the conclusion that homemade bacon is better than diner bacon. Stanley T agrees with Rich, it definitely tastes better, and you cook it just the way you like it when you make it at home.

Ryan thinks they are both are out of their minds. The bacon is so much better in the diner because cooking in the grease that has been flavored with other bacon all morning long is what makes it so tasty. You don’t get that cooking it at home. Nicole sides with Ryan – nothing beats diner bacon. Help us with this epic battle: would you rather have homecooked bacon or diner bacon – which one tastes better to you?!?

Our good friend Spot, from Rich’s afternoon show Covino & Rich, has entered into the Martha Stewart Cupcake Contest on Martha Stewart Living Radio (Sirius 112, XM 157). Right now he is losing and frankly, we can’t have that! His cupcake is the one pictured above and looks as good as it tastes! Please vote for Spot’s cupcake, and we promise to love you forever…or at least Spot will!