5 tips to make family breakfasts your new routine
New line of Cobblestone Bread Co. bagels and English muffins. Family meals are an easy way to create a lasting connection, and I’m always trying to find the right balance between a busy week day and...
View ArticleApple and Blackberry Custard Twist
The best part about going from winter to spring is that the grocery stores are full of late winter and early spring produce. And my favorite combination is blackberry and granny smith apples. The tart,...
View ArticleProvincial Fingerling Potato Salad
There is beauty in simplicity, especially when it comes to food. For me, the less complicated a recipe is, the more you can focus on the ingredients and when you can focus on your ingredients, that is...
View ArticleBerry Clafoutis recipe to celebrate #Pyrex100
Disclosure: I’ve partnered with Pyrex® to share a recipe that is special to me with you! #pyrex100 #RaiseYourGlassSweeps Baked custard, or as the French call it “Clafoutis” when you make it with...
View ArticleChampagne Whipped Cream for New Years Eve
I’m a fan of the fizz. In my house every party is a New Year’s Eve party because I am never far from my favorite bottle of Prosecco. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good Champagne, but my bank balance...
View ArticleRoasted Rose Petal Beets
I know very few jokes, and the ones I do know, I over use. Strangers think I’m funny, but that is only because I use up all my good jokes in the first meeting. By the time we have our second ‘date’...
View ArticleCranberry Custard Pound Cake for #RieslingToFeast
Holidays can be a wonderful mix of laughter and mayhem. And this year with only a few short weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas I’m taking all the short cuts I can to ensure that there is plenty...
View ArticlePumpkin Spiced Pecan Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream
Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Cake, Pumpkin Spiced…. everywhere I look this Thanksgiving, pumpkin everything is within arms reach. Don’t get me wrong, I adore pumpkin pie, and I love pumpkin bread, but I’m...
View ArticleMini Duchess Potatoes
As you know, I never miss an opportunity to eat with my fingers. Emily Post could write a whole passage about my mischievous adventures devouring everything with my hands. Food tastes better when you...
View ArticleCaramel and Almond Cookie Recipe + #TollHouseTime Twitter Party
It’s #TollHouseTime, everybody dance. With the holidays coming and every aisle in the grocery store reminding you that you need to turn your kitchen into a semi professional baking kitchen, I’ve...
View ArticleSlow Cooker Indian Chicken Stew
Slow cooked anything makes me weak in the knees…. and not just because you spend the whole day smelling the delights to come, but because it is a meal that cooks itself allowing you more time to unwind...
View ArticleVanilla Nutella Sandwich Cake
Motherhood, like childhood, goes by in a flash. One moment you are folding teeny tiny onesies for a newborn, and the next, you are watching that baby dance around the room excited for another birthday...
View ArticleRaspberry Vanilla Ice Cream
Fork me? Spoon me? Apparently I missed the ettiquette lesson on eating ice cream because when I tuck into a homemade pot of ice cream, I reach for a fork. A spoon only gets in the way of savoring...
View ArticleStrawberry and Chocolate Ganache Pie
I love food photography. Wait, what I should say is that I love really good food photography. But photography is a skill and an art form that requires you to have not only time, but the vision to make...
View ArticlePie chips for sweet dips
I’m a sucker for chips and salsa, just ask anyone who happens to be standing next to me at a party — I plant myself there and move only once the bowl is dry. That’s right, I’m one of those, the dip...
View Article4th of July Cranberry Sorbet Recipe
This July marks our 4 year anniversary of living in the US and it seems like each year we are becoming more and more acclimated to life in US. No one asks for biscuits or to watch the tellie anymore;...
View ArticleMedjool Date, Chorizo and Chic Pea Salad
I’m the first to admit that sometimes, I can be a bit of cliche; especially when it comes to food and the memories that are tied to it. My life is intertwined with the food I have eaten and the people...
View ArticleClassic Chocolate Cake Recipe
At some point in my life I fell out of love with chocolate and then I was coaxed into a chocolate shop in Belgium and found myself sampling enough chocolates to put 20lbs on me. It was that moment...
View ArticleFamily favorite potato recipes
I must admit, I never pass up a french fry or potato chip… my salty cravings always get the best of me, but there are so many other ways for me to satisfy my cravings for salty potatoes, and in my new...
View ArticleThai Green Curry Paste Recipe
Spring has…ah, sprung? At least according to my kitchen, but not according to my wardrobe. I’m still knee deep in long wooly socks, leather boots, thick sweaters, but in my kitchen, the lighter...
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