While we were not paying attention Charlotte Julienne turned five! Maybe it was the hectic first Christmas being away from family and having to travel. Maybe it was that we had two kids home for ELEVEN days straight. Maybe it was the endless pile of laundry that never seems to go away or get smaller. But […]
Breakfast
Cake Donuts with Glassy Pecans & Rosemary
We have been a little bit addicted to the PBS show ChefSteps. Fabulous three to five minute clips of recipes cooked by these young hipster chefs in a gorgeous loft space. They use induction cook tops and sous vide techniques. They talk about Tinder dates and sport tattoos and mustaches. Based in Seattle’s Pike Place, […]
Sunday Morning Frappuccino Hack
When the closest Starbucks is about twenty five minutes away and Dunkin’ Donuts is your only hope for a tiny bit of frozen coffee yumminess, you might decide, as I did, to try to make your own at home. Not that there is anything wrong with Dunkin’. After all, America runs on it apparently. But […]
Lemon Ricotta Pancakes
We have been in the process of starting to renovate our kitchen. I say starting because we have only gotten as far as taking down one ceiling tile and emptying the cupboards. A job that was supposed to be finished up by now…before school was starting! In the process of emptying the cupboards, I […]
Zucchini Bread with Pecans and Yogurt
There is nothing we love more in the summertime than a really good piece of zucchini bread. Last year my cousin made an incredible zucchini bread which we told the kids was cake just to get them to try it…clever, eh? They are now somewhat addicted so today when it was fresh out of the […]
Peach Breakfast Cake
Years ago a nearby town held a Peach Festival every year. It was the highlight of the summer for a lot of people and featured a lot of fun activities, parades, shows and a pie contest. Although it no longer exists, seeing peaches in the summer will always remind me of the fun times we […]
Sunken Buttermilk Cream Cheese Muffins with Rhubarb
We’re not going to lie. These did not turn out like we had planned. We pictured beautiful fluffy muffins with creamy centers. Instead we got a sunken middles and an oozy centers. Keeping the glass half full…we went with it and ended up with a really delicious soft muffins with a stuffed centers. We had […]
Homemade Granola Bars & Bites
We eat a lot of granola in our house. A lot. While our kids are not picky as to which kind they get, we have begun to be much more mindful about what is in the bars we have been purchasing. Particularly, the amount of sugar. Deciding to make our own came from wanting to […]