Strawberry Scones

Biscuits and pies and scones have been flying out of my mom’s kitchen these past few weekends.  I am bound and determined to get these recipes etched in my brain so that I will not need to reference the paper copy. This will save me many hours of searching and digging for saved and clipped

Egg in a Hole Bacon and Cheese Sandwich

Tina Turner’s voice is singing ‘big wheel keep on turnin‘.  These words my mantra since I made the decision.  I have determined to either go left or right rather than continuing to stand in the middle of an intersection.   I have been working on a lengthy  pros and cons list, imagining what life is like down

Apple Pear Butter

  I have been up to some crazy. Let’s start with the batch of apple pear butter, which is the recipe that I will share with you further down this page, just bear with me.  To be completely honest with you, I don’t find it crazy to be making apple pear butter.   I had more

Zucchini Bread

Zucchini Bread…. It is a basic.  A summer staple.  Late summer.  That time period that we are inching closer and closer to with the dawn of August upon us.  Zucchini will be overwhelming our gardens and CSA bags for weeks to come.  We will be gifting zucchini in the coming weeks to neighbors, coworkers, strangers

Browned Butter Vanilla Rum Snacking Cake

  Corduroys, grayish black and cozy as all get out.  A flannel shirt with snaps.  Snaps.  Wool running socks.  Large snow flakes.  Cold crisp air.  A Large Americano.  A scarf that matches nothing and clashes with everything but makes me insanely happy for no good reason.  Gray skies and a frozen lake.  Saturday morning market

The End of Summer Vegetable Frittata

You guys!  I am moving. In the brick and mortar sense.  With boxes and packing tape.  Newspaper and bubble wrap.   Black sharpie markers and newspaper.  There are boxes stacking up in the front room and I am in the ‘ it gets worse before it gets better’ stage.  Stan is just playing in the

Blackberry Lemon Cake

let’s eat cake!  who’s with me? a cake that is quite versatile in the flavor department and can be quickly brought together in a moments notice with ingredients that are, without a doubt, already in your fridge and pantries and cupboards.  totally rad, right?!?  yes, i am asking you to turn your ovens smack dab in the

Cinnamon Sugar Popovers

Real life…I brought TUMS with me on a bachelorette wine tasting tour this past weekend. At one point this weekend, there was both a roll of half eaten TUMS and a penis straw in my purse. I can’t make this up if I tried. Sweet sips have my esophagues angry and screaming. And myself wishing

Strawberry Jam

What’s your jam, yo? Strawberry.  Concord grape.  And Bob Seger. No particular order. I am the daughter/granddaughter of my father and grandfathers.  I am toast eating whiskey drinking Bob Seger listening fool. And then toss in a bit of my grandmas…and I am making the darn jam to spread on the toast. I am the

English Muffin Bread

Toast reminds me of my grandpa. I never saw him eat a piece of bread that wasn’t, well, toasted.  Toasted toasted.  Crunchy toasted.  On the brink of too toasted.  Toasted. My grandma was so used to toasting his bread, that I never had a tuna sandwich from that kitchen on soft bread.  Or a bologna