My family is likely very tired of me complaining about work, after my three years post-grad. And that’s after the four years of college, where they were tired of my complaining about school. My last job in LA was truly awful and consumed so much of my psyche for years, and I made sure everybody…
Creamy Sausage and Veggie Pasta with Scissor-Cut Noodles
This was one of the first proper meals I cooked in the new house after moving to Minnesota! I made it in a half-setup, half-unpacked kitchen, and enjoyed at a kitchen table in a room that didn’t have a ton of other furniture. It may have even been the meal made to celebrate having a…
Chocolate Pumpkin Caramel Poke Cake
This Chocolate Pumpkin Caramel Poke Cake uses boxed chocolate cake so it’s super convenient to make, but the pumpkin caramel and pumpkin buttercream guarantee that it tastes completely homemade! Your guests and family will love this cake throughout the holiday season. Remember that Pumpkin Spice Overdose Cake I shared a couple weeks ago? Of course…
Fall Harvest Bowl with Roasted Sweet Potato, Apple, and Wild Rice
Delicious and nutritious Harvest Bowl Sweetgreen copycat recipe. This tasty and filling grain bowl is made with seasonal ingredients: wild rice, roasted sweet potatoes, kale, goat cheese, chicken, apples, and balsamic vinaigrette. Recently, we made a Harvest Sweet Potato Sandwich. Now we’re making a Harvest Bowl. Have you heard of Sweetgreen? It’s like the salad…
Pumpkin Spice Overdose Cake
Pumpkin Spice Overdose Cake is for the PSL lover that doesn’t think they can possibly get enough pumpkin no matter how many pumpkin spice products they buy. It’s three decadent layers of pumpkin flavor inside and out: pumpkin cake, pumpkin ganache, pumpkin salted caramel, pumpkin frosting, and pumpkin whipped cream. I have a mixed relationship…
Harvest Sweet Potato Sandwich with Apple Butter and Goat Cheese
While I was living at home (before I moved back to Minnesota), I worked at a farm-to-table restaurant. My official title was Dairy Barista, a title as perfect for me as if I had chosen it myself. The restaurant was attached to a dairy farm, so they specialized in all things dairy, including the BEST…
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Whipped Cinnamon Filling
I first made these pumpkin whoopie pies five years ago (!!). I was a sophomore in college at the time, and my friends and I went through two batches in less than three weeks. That’s saying something, when you consider that a) I almost never re-bake things and b) we had access to a full…
Inside-Out Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcakes
In the last few years, fall has become so super-saturated with pumpkin that it feels like it’s impossible to do anything new with it anymore. Pumpkin coffee? Done. Pumpkin cookies? Done. Pumpkin cupcakes? Done. Pumpkin chapstick? Probably done, but probably not too tasty. But we keep wanting more…more and more and more, so much more…