It’s no secret that I love small batch baking. Being able to whip up a small batch of tasty baked goods has saved the day on more than one occasion. Just a couple of weeks ago, we invited a couple of friends over for dinner on a weekday evening. My husband was in charge of […]
There’s always money in the banana stand, and there’s always a bunch of old bananas in my house. Why can’t we ever go through an entire bunch before they go brown? Fortunately, we use bananas enough in baking that I look forward to them getting brown spots. We have Meu’s Guilt Free, All-Natural, Healthy Banana […]
I’m trying to be a gardener this year, with a strong emphasis on trying. I think I’m much better skilled at pinning pictures of pretty flowers on Pinterest than I am at growing them, but I’m giving it a go. The first step in my effort is, of course, the least fun step: weeding. After […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]