Blueberry scones can be either really delicious or terribly disappointing. I find that a lot of scones sold in coffee shops are rock-hard and bland. But when you make scones at home, you can make them delicious, tender, and full of wholesome ingredients. These scones are buttery, filled with tasty spices, and bursting with flavorful…
oatmeal cookies with cinnamon-coffee frosting.
In a continuation of one of our slowest rounds of the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies, I’m finally getting around to my fifth cookie of the season… I’ve been sending all of these cookies to the office with Eric, so his co-workers have become my test kitchen, offering suggestions, critiques, and (thankfully) compliments. One of…
homemade oreos.
So, it’s December 16, and we’re only on our fifth of the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies. Whoops. If you missed Days 1-4, check out my Chocolate Thumbprints with Bourbon Caramel and Sea Salt, Brown Butter Pecan Sandies with Chocolate, and Maple Shortbread, as well as Becca’s Peppermint Stars with Dark Chocolate Drizzle (she’s revived…
maple shortbread.
Today’s 12 days of Christmas cookies post is dedicated to Canada and our trip to the Great White North back in June. If you’ll recall warmer, drier days with me here for a minute, let’s return to Vancouver Island. Let’s forget about the little triathlon and focus on the Canadian fun. Paddleboarding, backpacking, eating maple…
brown butter pecan sandies with chocolate.
Let’s talk about Christmas movies. I assume that most folks have a list of movies they like to watch each holiday season. I tend to like my holiday movies to lean toward funny, rather than heartwarming, since I spend much of the holiday season crying through Christmas commercials (has anyone seen the one where the…
chocolate thumbprints with bourbon caramel and sea salt.
It’s December! And although I feel like I just put away the butter and sugar from last year’s 12 Days of Christmas Cookies, somehow it’s already time to lead you into another sugar coma. For those of you who are new to the blog, every year, my pal Becca and I bake way too many…
sweet potato turkey chili.
I think I’m becoming a food television addict. Believe it or not, prior to last week, I never watched cooking shows. As much as I love food, I really hate all of those food competition shows (the commercials, alone, stress me out). I have no interest in watching people sweat, squirm, and endure the ridicule…
candy corn and peanuts.
Now that it’s October (seriously, how did this happen?), we can talk about the snack you should be eating for the next month. This is the ultimate fall treat. Not because it is pumpkin spice anything. Not because it involves apples. But because it features candy corn. I’m not going to try to trick you…
chocolate peanut butter pretzel cookies.
I realize that today is the official first day of Autumn, and therefore I should be singing the praises of all things apple and pumpkin and harvesty. But I did that last week. Today, I’ll just tell you that we slept with our bedroom window open last night, and it got down to around 45…
baked apple cider doughnut holes.
‘Tis the season for everything apple cider. Last Autumn, I went on a heartbreaking quest for apple cider doughnuts in Portland, and came up empty. I went to the farm that Yelp claimed had the best apple cider doughnuts in town, and they were sad. Bland. Tasteless. As you know, I’m a little picky about…
southwestern sweet potato black bean dip.
With the arrival of September comes the resurgence of my love for all things sweet potato. Perhaps it is because sweet potatoes fit so nicely with Autumn’s color palette, or the fact that they are generally full of warm spices and happiness. Either way, I love them (particularly in the form of fries). As I…
chicken tortilla soup.
I think it might be Fall. After a hot, hot summer, we’re pretty eager to jump on the Autumn bandwagon. And I know the internet is about to explode with pumpkin recipes and soups, but I say, bring it on. I won’t ramble on about my love for all things Fall, but I will let…
dark chocolate salted bourbon brownies.
Dark chocolate. Bulleit Bourbon. Jacobsen Sea Salt. We knocked it out of the park with this one. Brownies are not typically my dessert of choice, partially due to a brownie overdose while working in the camp kitchen 7 summers ago. We made enormous trays of brownies for the campers, and then ate the batter straight…
zucchini bread.
It rained over the weekend for the first time in months. And while we may whine about the rain during the dark winters in the PNW, we can also whine about the abundant sunshine in the summertime. (Life is hard, right?) After months of hot, sunny, sweat-your-way-to-the-grocery-store-weather, we had a glorious weekend of 70 degrees…
berry pretzel pie.
Berries strike again! Are you sensing a theme in my eating life? Since I picked 8 1/2 pounds of fresh, juicy, incredibly red, cutting board staining strawberries, our meals, desserts, and snacks kind of centered around strawberries for a week. As it should, because fresh berries are the key to happiness. But not the key…
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