A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
In my sophomore year of high school, I decided to really embrace my brother’s advice about high school, which was: none of it matters! Me following that advice took a lot of forms over the last three years of high school, and I have plenty of stories about it. The only update I would give…
We have some family friends who we saw multiple times a year growing up, and we would always get together with around the holidays. And they would always give us puppy chow. It was something we all looked forward to when we saw them, and we would enjoy having it in a bag on our…
I enjoyed working at Milk Bar for a lot of reasons, but a big reason was that I got to take a lot of the baked goods home. Lots of ice cream being drained out at the end of the night, lots of cookies, a few cake slices. But the best of them all were…
I’ve never been a massive fan of gingerbread cookies, for two main reasons. 1) Most of them, like classic gingerbread men, are crunchy. Who wants a crunchy cookie?! 2) I was raised on Lebkuchen, which are soft gingerbread cookies that taste more complex than the crunchy American kind. And they often have glaze or chocolate…
When I had pie crust leftover this summer, I made this Rustic Tomato Tarte. So naturally when I had pie crust leftover from my Thanksgiving Apple Pie, I wanted to make another savory dish, but this time with fall flavors. For Thanksgiving, I also made this Winter Vegetable Crumble from Joy the Baker that never…
I recently made Taylor Swift’s Chai Cookies, and they did not disappoint. However, those cookies have been made and posted approximately one million times on the internet. So I wanted to do something a bit more original with them. I think there’s a ton of different riffs you could do with the cookies (different teas,…
Happy December 1st! AKA the real start of Christmas! I usually try to bake one new kind of Christmas cookie every year, to keep things interesting. But I always have to make the classics. And I thought Molly and I had posted about our classics on this blog ages ago! But we seem to have…
I know everyone has their own opinions on this, but I believe Thanksgiving is the best holiday. At least, the way my family does it. We go to Door County, Wisconsin and stay in a timeshare for a week. So right off the bat, the celebration is a week long. The Wifi is spotty, the…