I participated in my good friend’s fundraising event again this year: the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. The swap raises money for the non-profit charity, Cookies for Kids Cancer. Lindsay of Love & Olive Oil together with Julie of The Little Kitchen helped raised over $7,000 this season, pairing hundreds of bloggers with their cookie swap matches.
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. …
When I told my sister I made marshmallows she laughed and said, “why?”. I know she thinks I am ridiculous and also that I should have another kid if I have enough time on my hands to make homemade marshmallows. In my defense, I’ve been planning to make my own marshmallows for months now, and I’ve finally found the time to …
A couple of weeks ago I had a good friend and client ask me if I had yet come out of “First Year hiding”. He explained the strange process a couple experiences when you have baby number one; you disappear socially for about a year. You lose track of everyone you hung out with before …
I love anything pretty much in pancake or waffle form. Last year, I waffled my mom’s leftover Thanksgiving stuffing and I still think it may be the best thing I’ve ever eaten. When potatoes aren’t available or we are looking for a slightly healthier version of a potato pancake, I’ll make these zucchini fritters. Packed …
On a whim, I picked up a magazine in the grocery check-out lane just because the beautiful cover photo caught my eye. Little did I know, the entire magazine was basically an ad for King Arthur Flour. On the one hand, it was kind of nice, as there were no other ads for anything, but on …
Blah blah blah, new moms have no time and are perpetually tired. Blah blah, seasoned moms have no time and are perpetually tired. Blah. I really don’t want to be one of those people who complain about having NO TIME for myself and the things I wanted to do anymore post baby. I wanted to be super …
It’s (still) summer even though I’m already doing what hubs calls “forcing fall” – wearing long sleeves, jackets and sweaters before it’s truly cold enough outside to do so. I love beginning of the fall season, the first time you see your breath in the morning, first frost on the grass, until finally, the smell of …
It’s that time of Tennessee summer for me. That “I-won’t-blow-dry-my-hair-anymore-because-it’s-too-dang-hot-outside” time of summer. Jeans have been retired to the back corner of my closet. My hair has permanent ponytail kink because again, it’s just too dang hot to have hair on your neck. It’s so swelteringly humid it makes me not want to cook anything. In fact, …
You know how everyone always puts their best face forward on Facebook and Instagram? No one (well, except one person I follow) ever seems to have a bad day and everyone’s families, spouses, children and pets appear cheery, clean, and (for the most part) perfectly lit while loving life in every photo. We all know life …
