Do you remember when cupcake shops were all the rage? They’re still great, but there was a specific period of time when the concept of walking into a bakery dedicated to cupcakes and walking out with only a cupcake or two in hand collectively blew everyone’s mind (mine included). There was certainly a novelty to […]
Going out to brunch on the weekends is definitely on our top ten “remember how great life was before COVID” list. Brunch was the best meal of the week. You get to sleep in, it is acceptable for you to attend in borderline pajamas, and you are with your closest friends (only serial killers go […]
A few years ago, I was at an event with a friend, and we were camped out near the dessert table (no surprise there) munching on the array of cookies. She said, “Don’t you wish you could just eat cookies all the time?” It sticks out as such a clear memory because she said it […]
Thanks to an episode of Gilligan’s Island, I grew up with the wholehearted belief that Eating More Carrots = Having Amazing Eyesight. (Never mind the fact that the carrots on this particular Gilligan’s Island episode were grown from radioactive seeds that mysteriously washed ashore and gave Mary Ann superhuman seeing powers.) I wasn’t the only […]
There’s a lovely quote from Walden by Henry David Thoreau that reads, “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” For me, it’s more like, how many new eras in my life have been dated by the eating of a donut: There’s the life changing […]
I love traditions. I love eating the same thing on my birthday every year, posing for the same photo with my brother every Christmas, and watching the same movie every year at the first hint of fall (so I can hear my favorite lines in movie history: “Don’t you love New York in the fall? […]
Your heart is going to beat for these beets! Whether you are a first time beet eater or a beet connoisseur, are going to love these red velvet cookies and the beets hiding inside of them. I first developed this recipe years ago. I was in the mood for red velvet but was frustrated that […]
One of my favorite new traditions is turning our home into a coffee shop, where the customers, baristas, and bakers are me and my husband. We decide what time we’ll “go” to the coffee shop (aka, a room in our house), and it really makes us feel like we’re going somewhere special. It’s very easy […]
Step one: Close your eyes and take a deep breath in. Can you smell the pumpkin spice? Do you feel the chill in the air? Can you hear the leaves crunching? That’s right, it’s October, the most magical month of the year (in my humble opinion). I think L.M. Montgomery wrote it best in Anne of […]
Eight. That is how many times I’ve baked banana bread this year. It seems banana bread has become our universal coping skill while we all struggle to survive the pandemic. Since we are spending more time than ever inside (and my exercise routine seems to have gone AWOL), I realized I needed to switch over […]