Cakes and Cupcakes · Desserts

Pineapple Sunshine Cake

This is one of those vintage recipes from forever ago that has stood the test of time.  I remembered my mother-in-law posting a recipe for it on Facebook a few months back, and saying they used to make this all the time and she loved it, so when I was planning her birthday dinner this month,… Continue reading Pineapple Sunshine Cake

cookies

Reeses Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies

Calling all peanut butter lovers! These cookies are for you! These delicious, soft, buttery peanut butter cookies are thick and chewy and packed full of peanut butter.  The Reeses Pieces don’t just add extra peanut butter- they add a delicious crunch to the cookie as well. These are not a crunchy cookie.  They are definitely… Continue reading Reeses Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies

Desserts · Uncategorized

Thanks for working your BUNS off {Teacher Gift} —

Normally, I take the lazy route with Teacher Appreciation gifts and buy them all a Starbucks card. I figure most people like coffee or tea, and I know if I was a teacher, I’d love to get a gift card to Starbucks or Target or Amazon or somewhere like that. However, for end of year […]… Continue reading Thanks for working your BUNS off {Teacher Gift} —

Breakfast · Desserts

Easy Cherry Danish

Almost once a week, I either host or attend a “tea party” with my mom, my sister, my great-nanny, my kids, and occasionally other random guests.  By “tea party,” I mean we brew a couple pots of English breakfast tea, serve some kind of pastry dish, like cookies or scones or butterhorns or even crumpets,… Continue reading Easy Cherry Danish

Dinners · Side Dishes & Salads

Best Broccoli Salad. Ever.

Summer means lots of salads to me.  Pasta salads, potato salads, broccoli salads.  Anything quick and easy that can go with grilled meat.  It’s been super hot here in Seattle the last few summers and I am a grump about heat.  Nobody here has air conditioning! Do you know how miserable it is to sit… Continue reading Best Broccoli Salad. Ever.

Appetizers and Dips

Cowboy Caviar

Move over, guacamole. I am guessing that this amazing dip would be “caviar” to anybody, cowboys or otherwise.  We are going camping in Leavenworth this weekend, and one of my favorite things to do at the place where I spent so many childhood summers, is to sit under the shade of the big apple tree, in the field… Continue reading Cowboy Caviar