A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
When I went to the Betty Crocker Cake Picnic last year, they gave away Cherry Chip Betty Crocker cake mix, and a recipe for a “Cake Doctor” style cake. I didn’t make it right away, because there was no immediate occasion for cake, and I had other things to bake. But I kept it in…
St. Patrick’s Day has always been a very blah “holiday” in my opinion. For as much as I love the color green, it really makes no sense as a holiday that needs to be marked on calendars. As a kid, it was an excuse for the most annoying kids at school to pretend they have…
I’ve been cleaning out my pantry for over two months now, and it’s finally emptying out! Just a few more lingering random ingredients to be used up. One of the most lingering: some dried cranberries. I’m not sure even why they were purchased. I am not usually someone who seeks out cranberries. Nothing against them,…
I spent most of Sunday feeling sleep deprived, because Daylight Savings Time has struck again! I’m not sure whether we’re leaving or entering Daylight Savings – I’ve never known which time was the Original Time. Is the forward or backward an hour part of the year the time it was before Daylight Savings? I know…
In the past week, I have broken a glass, a plate, and a mug. I filled the glass with ice, then turned back around to the counter, and missed by a few inches, hitting the glass against the side of the counter, and it practically sheared in half. Then, I thought I had put a…
When I was in college, I lived in an apartment with three other girls. It was an incredibly run-down apartment, and it was near impossible to keep clean. And I don’t mean that in a lazy way. I think if you spent a day cleaning it, with no furniture or items in it, it would…
One of my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes is this one, which used date syrup from Trader Joe’s. Tragically, Trader Joe’s stopped selling the date syrup. There’s substitutes for date syrup, I’m sure. Or even other places to get it. I don’t know how much of how good the cookies were was related to the…
My mom recently got me a subscription to the most delightful monthly newspaper: Baking Nation. A newspaper delivered every month filled with baking related history, recipes, puzzles, horoscopes, and tips and tricks. What more could you ask of a newspaper?? Nothing, I say. There’s also a cozy mystery story with monthly installments, so it’s really…