This post is my Thanksgiving recipe offering to you! A brightly colored (and gluten-free if you follow the NYT recipe) super (and I mean SUPER) tart, tart. Full disclosure, P did not like it. This is a fun dessert to try but do be sure to also have a separate pumpkin/apple/chocolate pie on hand for …
I do realize the last three posts I’ve written are carb laden. I don’t know what to say other than this baby in my belly loves carbs! P’s current favorite snack is cheese crackers, so what better snack to bake together than his favorite one? My toddler is a great (ok, somewhat messy and wild) …
October has been one gross and sweaty month; thanks Tennessee, I guess we are skipping Fall this year. Even though last week’s temps creeped towards 90°F with 92% humidity, we can still crank up the a/c, put on a turtleneck and make Fall food! These homemade pretzels will knock the socks off of anyone’s Oktoberfest …
I baked a strawberry chiffon cake with my mom last week! Tennessee strawberries are ripe, y’all, and it’s time to hatch a strawberry plan. Of course the first thing that comes to mind is pairing them with a sponge cake. It’s simple, not overtly sweet, and an awesome vessel for red-ripe strawberries. Strawberry chiffon cake is also the perfect …
Baked doughnuts are definitely not fried doughnuts but basically eating a doughnut for breakfast is like eating cake for breakfast so everyone still wins. This particular doughnut is in fact called a cake doughnut, meaning there isn’t any yeast involved. You can totally be eating doughnuts in roughly 30 minutes from beginning to end and …
Ok, I know making homemade vanilla extract sounds super intimidating and overly ambitious, but honestly vanilla extract barely requires a recipe, and the reward is the most intoxicatingly warm vanillariffic extract EVER. It took me about 7 minutes to throw this together. The hardest part is waiting a whole month for the beans to steep before using. …
It’s my first mother’s day tomorrow and I’m psyched! Psyched for promised pancakes to be made my husband, psyched to go to my good friend’s house for homemade pizza, and psyched for my little guy finally feeling good after being sick for a week. I was ill-prepared for how gut wrenching it would be to …
Every place we visited while in St. Martin sold French bread baguettes. Seriously, from the checkout line at the grocery store to the checkout line at the gas station, French baguettes were everywhere. And what a perfect seaside lunch too; a baguette, some meats and cheeses, fruit and maybe a couple of beers or a …
For the first time ever, M’s Belly participated in the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap hosted by my super blogger neighbor Lindsay. The premise of the swap is, once a food blogger has signed up to participate they will then receive the names of 3 other food bloggers to whom they must ship 1 dozen cookies each. …
