Have you started your Thanksgiving food prep? Do you make the same menu every year or do you like to change it up from year to year? Do you like the traditional Thanksgiving feast or are you adventurous with your sides? So many Thanksgiving questions, so little time! If you haven’t already figured out your…
recipes
secretly vegan pumpkin bread
I have a slight pumpkin obsession. I started making pumpkin bread the last week of August. It sounds early, but at the time we were so close to fall and nothing pumpkin was out in stores yet. Pumpkin was calling my name and I couldn’t resist. It was like the teaser to the full-on pumpkin…
pumpkin spice granola
Today was a cold, busy Monday. I feel like my Monday’s are always packed with everything I need to do from emails over the weekend or routine tasks I have to complete each week. Between those, the day can easily get away from me. With a busy, busy week at work last week and a…
chewy ginger cookies with apple cider caramel
Get out your pots and pans. These are worth making now. I have already professed my love for apple cider and for pumpkin flavored foods. Basically fall is wonderful because it is the only time both are around. While pumpkin is my number one obsession when the weather cools down, I have a soft spot…
pumpkin spice syrup for a homemade pumpkin spice latte
It is here! It has arrived! ‘Tis the season for all things pumpkin! I am a pumpkin lover. Fall is wonderful because it brings cooler weather after our crazy hot and humid summer months, and SO MUCH PUMPKIN! It is always exciting to see the pumpkin flavored items return to the stores and coffee shops….
apple cider doughnut muffins with cinnamon sugar, maple whiskey glaze, and apple cider glaze
Fall officially starts this week! Are you as excited as I am? Granted it was still about 89 degrees today but it is cooling down and we are starting to have crisp mornings! In lieu of the arrival of autumn and our recent apple picking trip, we have apple cider doughnut muffins today! I have…
homemade almond butter and pecan peanut cinnamon butter
It finally feels like fall outside! September decided to show itself today with cool temperatures, wonderful breezes and bright blue skies full of fluffy white clouds. I know it is not officially fall yet, according to the calendar and the autumnal equinox, but I am so ready for it to cool down and feel like…
sally lunn bread with honey butter
I’m a little afraid of baking with yeast. I have had a lot of fails and only a few successes. It is temperamental, that yeast. Mixed with liquid that is too hot, it will die, too cold though and it wont proof correctly. So many times I have anticipated gorgeous golden loaves of bread or…
gluten free chocolate chip cookies
We’re branching out today. These chewy, tender cookies are filled with chocolate puddles and are gluten free! Stay with me here, you’ll like them whether you fill your diet with gluten or leave it out. A few of my good friends from college can’t have gluten. As a baker, even in college, I always wanted to…
porridge with raspberry ripple and honey roasted pistachios
When we were in the UK this summer we had the best porridge for breakfast. We first tasted it at The Elephant Room, the cafe where J.K. Rowling started writing Harry Potter, and were hooked for the rest of our vacation. We tried to recreate it in our apartment in Edinburgh and were unsuccessful, with burnt porridge…