A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
I said it in a previous post, but part of the start of the year routine this year meant cleaning out and organizing my pantry. The holidays always brings an influx of sweets and ingredients, and they inevitably always last well beyond December. So, these brownies served two start-of-the-year purposes: to use up all the…
I have beef with the NYT Cooking section. They are behind a paywall about 90% of the time. Just give me ads! I’m not paying you! There’s so much free baking information on the internet that if I can’t access one specific recipe, I’m going to figure it out myself. Which is what happened with…
This is part two of my Junior vs. Adult Bake Off comparison. Last time, I made the Pizza Star Bread from JBO Season 6’s bread week. It was delicious, and very very easy to make. This time, I made the Cinnamon Snowflake Bread from this 2024’s Holiday Bake Off episode. Immediately, it was more complex…
My family was thrilled when this year’s Great New Year’s Baking Show brought back the greatest the GBBO tent has ever seen: Jürgen. We watched the two holiday episodes this holiday season, and appreciated getting to see Jürgen back in the tent, and even performing his trombone. And then when they were done I convinced…
Well well well… After a (personal) record-breaking 78 posts in 2024, I’ve taken a whole week to post in 2025! But fear not, I aim to keep posting just as much in this new year. My goal for last year was to post 52 times (once a week), which I managed to surpass considerably. And…
I’ve definitely talked about this before, but I think the most underrated flavor combination is chocolate orange. I simply cannot get enough of it. And I’ll eat it in any form: bars, brownies, cake, cookies… and now ice cream! And especially in the world of Christmas flavors, I think it does not get enough attention. Chocolate…
It’s funny to put “Homemade” in the title of this post, as if anything on this blog wasn’t going to be. But the qualifier feels necessary here, because Lebkuchen is something that I never think of as homemade! Lebkuchen around the holidays is a family tradition, and in the past we’ve gotten it from Germany….
When I was a kid, I got a book for a birthday or Christmas called 365 Things to Make and Do. And while I only made or did a few of the 365 things, this book lives pretty “rent free” in my head, as the kids say. Most of the crafts and activities were not…