Desserts · pies

Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day, friends, from the person who loves pie more than anybody else in the world! The holiday of my people. Pie loving people.  I suppose it’s for math people too, but I hate math, so really, I’m just using it as an excuse to eat pie. If you click on the “pie” section… Continue reading Happy Pi Day!

Breakfast · cinnamon rolls · Easter

Cinnabunnies

How completely cute are these Cinnabunnies you guys? It has been a big day around here.  We went to  meet the Easter Bunny at the mall this afternoon.  As you can see, 1 year old Phoebe was not a fan. In fact, an entire hour later she was still traumatized and giving me the stink… Continue reading Cinnabunnies

Beef · dinner · St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner: Corned Beef, Cabbage, and Roasted Potatoes and Carrots

This is St. Patrick’s Day dinner kicked up a notch.  I usually use a big pot with a lid on the stove top, but this time, I cooked my corned beef in a dutch oven- I am strongly anti-crock pot when it comes to meat  (I swear I can taste the crock-pot) but the biggest… Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day Dinner: Corned Beef, Cabbage, and Roasted Potatoes and Carrots

Dinners · Soups

Sicilian Chicken Soup

I have a husband home sick with a man cold today and that means two things: Nyquil and chicken soup.  I made a creamier chicken orzo soup last week, but today I wanted something a little brothier, but with enough substance to be our meal for the evening. I found this wonderful recipe on A… Continue reading Sicilian Chicken Soup

Cakes and Cupcakes · chocolate · Desserts

Blue Velvet Cake

I have a little boy who turned four today.  He is an adorable, sweet, potty talking, sensitive, sister teasing little scamp with boundless energy and an intense love of two things (besides his big sister:) Chocolate and the color “dark blue.” Every morning while we pick out his clothes, he asks me, in his little… Continue reading Blue Velvet Cake

bars · Desserts · Easter

Easter Popcorn Marshmallow Bars

If I could offer you only one word to describe these bars, it would have to be a made up word: mallowy. These delicious bars are not just all kinds of super duper Easter cute, they are absolutely packed with marshmallows. If you’ve never tried mixing lightly salted popcorn with butter and marshmallows, then well,… Continue reading Easter Popcorn Marshmallow Bars

bars · brownies · candy · chocolate · Easter

Easter Egg Brownies

I feel like it would be unethical of me to post these brownies without a disclaimer that for every one of these brownies, you’d need to run like 6 miles at a 9.0 pace to burn it off. But.  Brownies. They are the reason I cannot give up sugar.  Ever. And oh, those little mini… Continue reading Easter Egg Brownies