About four years ago I started slowly cutting meat out of my meals. For about two years I have been eating 95% vegetarian. Why? Well, its complicated. And its not the point of this post. And my point is certainly not to convince everyone to become Vegetarian. Not at all. I am not passionate about…
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Stamped Sugar Cookies (Polka Dots and Goodbye’s)
I am so excited about a little trick I figured out last week! I was looking for an excuse to make some sugar cookies with royal icing. I decided to make some for my neighbors who are moving next week. Honestly, I wasn’t even sure what kind of sugar cookie I was going to make….
Mom’s Chewy Brownies
There are some recipes that you just grow up with. You know, those recipes that are scribbled on a wrinkled piece of paper covered in batter. I can’t tell you where this recipe originated. All I know is that my mom has made these brownies for as long as I can remember. They are my…
Full Tutorial: Sugar Cookies w/ Royal Icing
I have made a lot of sugar cookies for different occasions. I’ve made autumn leaves, conversation hearts, bunnies and carrots, graduation hats, shoes, spooky Halloween cookies, cute Halloween cookies, Mummy Cookies, baby onesie cookies, ice cream shop cookies, love letter cookies, Christmas ornaments, stamped thank you cookies, baby elephant cookies, dinosaur baby shower cookies, mustaches…
A Month of Pie: Flaky Pie Crust Tutorial (Using Butter)
I am not a fan of shortening. You will never find a recipe on this website that uses shortening (well, I may have used it one time years ago). I have said it before: It creeps me out. When I see a can of that greasy goo, I just can’t bring myself to cook with…
Homemade Sugar Sprinkles (Colored Sanding Sugar)
This was one of those things that I thought up all on my own. I was super excited about it and went crazy one afternoon making color after color. After I made a bundle of colors, I decided to see if anyone else had thought of making their own sanding sugar. After a quick Google…
Roasted Garlic
I know that I already showed you all how to do this when I made Roasted Garlic and Cheddar Mashed Potatoes, but I wanted devote a post just for this easy trick. Garlic takes on an entirely different flavor when it is roasted. It becomes soft, creamy, caramelized, and slightly sweet. Mash it into potatoes,…
Save the Season: Freezing Summer
I associate different feelings and moods with different seasons. In the Fall I feel an overall feeling of contentment and coziness. In the winter I mostly just feel cold. In the spring I feel hopeful and fresh. In the summer I feel energetic, excited, committed to eating better and exercising, and completely optimistic. I don’t…
Avoiding Kitchen Catastrophe’s
Ok, so just because ya’ll see pretty finished plates of food on my blog, it doesn’t mean I don’t have major catastrophes in the kitchen every once in a while. Just in the last two days I have managed to go grocery shopping and realize I left my wallet home after the groceries were all…