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…
Cinnamon Bun Doughnut Ice Cream (Easy! No Machine Needed!!!)
So, this thing keeps happening over and over and over. I find a really great recipe or idea, and right as I am about to post it, one of my favorite food blogs, Our Best Bites, publishes a post of the exact same thing. Sometimes right while I am typing up a post, they will…
Best Chocolate Chip Cookie’s Ever (after my brother’s recipe)
When I was growing up, my little brother was always the cookie maker in the house. Whenever someone wanted chocolate chip cookies, we would call Riley. It was just kind of his thing, whether he wanted it or not. He just made really good chocolate chip cookies. They were really good, but the other day…
Fried Green Tomatoes
We have a trillion tomatoes on our in our tiny little garden. They are all green. Every time one starts to turn red, the little chipmunk who lives under our air conditioning unit, takes a big bite out of the tomato. I decided to make use of some of those big fat green tomatoes that…
Three-Cheese Baked Macaroni and Cheese with Kielbasa Sausage
Macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food for me. I love it. I absolutely love it. Not the cheap blue-box kind, but the hearty homemade baked kind. Usually a good baked macaroni and cheese calls for a cheese sauce made from a white sauce roux (butter, flour, milk). This recipe that Brown Eyed Baker…
Concord Grape Sherbet
I love all things purple. It’s my favorite color. Purple and green were my wedding colors. I love all my purple clothes. I have an easy time selling the purple shoes at work. I paint my toes light purple more than any other color. Most of all, I love this amazing vibrant ice cream….
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…
Homemade Cotton Candy
I made homemade cotton candy!!! It’s pretty exciting. I am finding out that you can make lots of stuff homemade. Like gummy bears, fudge-sicles, hamburger buns, kettle corn, Butter Beer and doughnuts. As soon as I saw a recipe for homemade candy floss, I knew that I just had to make it. I love cotton…
Fudge Popsicles
It is my day off. What does that mean? I’m watching food network on Hulu on my laptop (and maybe the latest episode of the Bachelorette???). I know I should get some cleaning done, but I’m going to take it easy until just before my husband gets home and then I am going to clean…
Mixed Berry Fraisier
Jana of Cherry Tea Cakes was our July Daring Bakers’ host and she challenged us to make Fresh Fraisiers inspired by recipes written by Elisabeth M. Prueitt and Chad Robertson in the beautiful cookbook Tartine. Can you believe that I have never made a layered cake? Ever. Until this month. When I saw the Daring…
