The first of October I went on a vacation with my mom and both of my kids while Brian went hunting. Literally one hour after getting out of the car to start our vacation I dropped our trusty point & shoot camera in the sand in the play area of...
I have a confession to make. I’ve been sitting on the recipe for these cookies for a year now. A YEAR! I didn’t mean to keep it a secret from you, I promise. But, the thing is, I created the recipe for my husband and now every time I make...
I have a confession to make. I’m sorry to have kept it from you for so long. Ok… here goes. I really don’t like frosting. There, I said it. I think most frosting is totally vile. The bakery frostings on those massive sheet cakes for office birthdays and graduations (that...
Alice from Alice in Wonderland said “I give myself very good advice but I very seldom follow it.” Wise girl, that Alice. One of my first cardinal rules of cooking is to read through the recipe twice at minimum before starting. Yet sometimes (cough cough too often) I just assume...
Did you know that July is National Ice Cream month? It only makes sense, I suppose. It’s the middle of summer. It’s scorching hot pretty much everywhere right now. And, hello, it’s ice cream. Who even needs an excuse to eat some? With this rich, indulgent, amazing ice cream recipe...
We are quite the coffee addicts around our house. It is my firm belief that there isn’t much better than coffee & chocolate together. An iced mocha is a surefire way to perk up my day (pun intended. Perk? Coffee? oh my). So these little cupcakes are what I’d consider...
This recipe comes to you at the request of my 3-year-old daughter. A few Saturdays ago she woke up and the first thing she said is “Momma, will you make me breakfast? Something with bananas? And chocolate?” I wonder where she gets that from? These muffins certainly delivered. They were...
It’s a given that at least once a week I will make a batch of cookies. And it is inevitable that if I ask Brian what kind of cookie he’d like he’ll answer “Chocolate chip”. He’s nothing if not consistent. So finally one day when I asked him what kind he...
I think Rebecca (my 3 year old) thinks I’ve been holding out on her. Every time I make chocolate chip cookies Brian snags a bite (ok 12 bites) of cookie dough before they go in the oven. I never let her have any (raw egg. 3 year old. paranoid mommy.)...
So, funny story. A few weeks ago was my daughter Rebecca’s third birthday. All along we’d talked about the kind of cupcakes she wanted for various birthday functions that week and we’d agreed on Oreo cupcakes for The Big Day. Then, just before naptime- when I was going to be...