Believe in your inner cook.
This guest-worthy dinner of salmon and gnocchi in a quick butter and sage sauce is super fast and just uses two dishes to make (one to boil the gnocchi and one to sear the salmon and make sauce). Including a fail-proof way to make extra crispy pan-seared salmon. Frank is a great cook, but you…
Mini Meatball and Orzo Soup is a cozy bowl of savory broth with Italian sausage meatballs and orzo pasta. I went to Philadelphia last weekend for a quick visit with some good friends from college. It snowed about 8 inches in Kansas City so my flight out of town was delayed. Landed late in Chicago…
This bright smoothie is made with mango, pitaya (dragon fruit), citrus, and turmeric. Naturally sweet, it’s packed with Vitamin C and all the inflammation-fighting goodness of turmeric. It’s a great smoothie for cold season. This smoothie pretty much says it all about the beginning of 2019 in our house. We’ve been (luckily) pretty healthy, but…
As much as I’d like to be someone who dives into the New Year with all sorts of resolution enthusiasm, it’s just not who I am. I tend to ease in, testing the water a toe at a time. I’ll never be the person eating kale for breakfast or beating down the door at the…
Light, crisp, melt-in-your-mouth Candy Cane Meringues are flavored with peppermint and are a sweet addition to a cookie spread around the holidays. Crisp meringues are one of my favorite Christmas “cookies”. Can they really even be called cookies? Meringues are much simpler than most cookies, requiring only egg whites and sugar, and they can be…
Use cookie cutters to make these Crisp Gingerbread Cookies in any shape. The flavor has just the right amount of spice and a subtle sweetness. They go great with chocolate so top them with mini M&Ms before baking or dip the finished cookies in hot cocoa. This is the first year that I decided to…
Chocolate Peppermint Blossoms are a soft, chewy chocolate cookies topped with white peppermint candy kisses. We have been trying our best this holiday season to slow down and just enjoy it all. Quieter moments over attending all the holiday events that come our way. It’s so easy to say “yes” to everything this time of…
Happy Christmas season! My kids have been asking a lot about Christmas traditions. Surely it’s something they’re learning about at school. And Christmas cookie baking is one of my absolute favorite traditions. As the girls get older, they are legitimately helpful when it comes to cookie baking. They love to take charge of the process…
Our little June is four months old. Actually…four months and a bit. Remember back when I thought I was busy and wrote a post on Molly and Clara every month of their first year? That was nice. It really is true that third kids are probably documented less. But we make up for that with the…
