With Christmas just seven days away we are sharing our top three Christmas cookie recipes from our archives. One of our favorites is our mincemeat chocolate chip. A cookie we never thought we’d be so happy with- the idea of mincemeat was always a little scary. This combination provides that cozy holiday flavor […]
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Our Favorite Whale Cookie Cutters
My love of whales goes way back. Think the preppy period of the early 80’s. Bermuda bags in indigo blue with kelly green edging embroidered with a whale and my initials. Foil whale stickers and whale stampers from our local stationary store. Pink and green striped whales and whales on printed bags at summer boutiques […]
Little Belgians Speculoos Cookies
We fell in love with Little Belgians earlier this season for their adorable packaging and delicious speculoos cookies and s’mores kits. Speculoos cookies remind us of our honeymoon which was a road trip around England and Europe with one of our favorite stops being Belgium. With every coffee we ordered we were served a little […]
Small Batch Cocktails
We don’t get out much. This year we managed an overnight to NYC where we were for a total of about ten hours before we had to head home. We also did take a trip to South Carolina where we actually got an entire weekend in. That is rare though as most of the year […]
Vanilla Cupcakes & Sprinkles
Oh my, November has a load of great food holidays! November 10 is National Vanilla Cupcake Day! It is also the day that our children came to live with us six years ago. Definitely a reason to make cupcakes. Ahhhh! Where are my cupcake lovers? I think my love of cupcakes runs so deep because […]
Our Top 5 Fall Cookbook Picks
Fall in New England is just the absolute best in my mind. My favorite season. My favorite weather. My favorite holidays. It is also that time of year you can hunker down at home and bring back the cozy comfort food that makes your house smell like a home while it is cooking. You know, […]
National Deviled Egg Day
Hard cooked eggs are actually one of the foods my kids love in their lunch boxes so I was a little excited to learn that today is National Deviled Egg day. Growing up as an 80’s kid (ok and a good part of the 70’s), deviled eggs made their appearance at almost every summer party. […]
Caramel Apples
There are some quintessential fall sweets that have become tradition in our house. One of those is caramel apples. When I was growing up I remember getting candy covered apples at fairs or chocolate covered apples sent at Christmas. Caramel apples though, caramel apples scream fall. They say Halloween. They say New England. They are […]