Poppy Seed Bread
If you are looking for a new sweet bread recipe to try out, here it is. This bread is so packed with flavor and topped with a crunchy orange glaze, it will become a favorite rather quickly. A blend of vanilla, almond, and butter flavors bring this poppy seed bread to life.
Mint Dipped Oreos
In college, my roommate and I would frequent Salt Lake City and often end up at Trolley Square. There was a chocolate shop there and I would buy these mint candy covered Oreos. Oreos + mint = Love! Everytime – be it milkshakes, dirt cake, brownies – all of it, love! Guittard makes the perfect…
Christmas Cookies
My mother taught me how to make these cookies and her mother taught her. It was so fun to decorate the cookies with the colored sugar. It didn’t matter if we made the Christmas tree look like an actual Christmas tree or if we made the candy canes red and white. It was fun because…
Peanut or Cookie Butter Balls
We waited all year for my neighbor’s girls to come over with their little plate of goodness in December. What were were waiting for? Peanut butter balls. When I say we, I mean half of our family. Well, maybe two thirds of us to be exact. Gabi and Emma do not like peanut butter. So…
Corn Chowder
When Andy and I got married, I was a vegetarian. It was the first time I had to cook for a meat eater on a consistent basis. Needless to say, it was also the first time Andy got to eat lots of vegetarian meals. This corn chowder was one of them. It is easy…
Sweet Potato Muffins
This is a recipe that goes way back. I remember how skeptical I was when my mom first told me she was making sweet potato muffins. Really, sweet potatoes in muffins? Obviously my exposure to sweet potatoes was limited – pretty much to the mashed ones we had at Thanksgiving. Well, this sweet little muffin…
Apple Pie
Can you even call it Thanksgiving without apple pie? I don’t think so. Growing up, apple pie was most definitely the favorite pie at the feast and always the first one gone. My mom’s apple pie was the traditional type with a crust on top holding in all the juicy apple goodness. Andy’s mom brought…
Berry Pie
Pie season is here! Andy’s birthday was this past week and he is definitely a pie guy. His favorite is Berry Pie. Let me tell you about the first time I had berry pie. Gabi and I were flying to Chicago to visit Andy’s parents. I was pregnant with Emma. As we flew into the…
Apple Fritters
Did you get to go to an orchard and pick apples this fall? I was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. One of my few memories of MA is going to an orchard in the fall and learning how they press apples to make apple cider. It was fascinating to me and something I will never forget. …
White Chicken Chili with Black Beans
Nothing says fall better than a nice hot bowl of chili. You probably have half a dozen different chili recipes in your kitchen as we speak. Why do you need one more? I’ll tell you why – because this one is a show stopper. Literally – I have won chili cook offs with this chili. …
Breakfast Burritos
Breakfast. Some people say it is the most important meal of the day. I am not a nutritionist or anything close so I can’t claim that breakfast is important for scientific reasons. I am human, though, and know that I need fuel for the day. So breakfast, it’s an important meal. It is also important…
Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls
Fall is officially here and I am fully embracing all things pumpkin spice. I love that when the seasons change our food changes too! Isn’t that what we love about the holidays? Food?!? As we transition from flip flops to boots, shorts to jeans, and tank tops to sweaters, our food transitions from burgers to…
Crumb Coffee Cake
It is not too often that I eat cake for breakfast but when I do – I want a crumb coffee cake. My blueberry coffee cake is amazing as well as my cinnamon sour cream coffee cake. However, nostalgia always takes over and this one brings back all the memories. My sister and I were…