funfetti birthday cake

funfetti birthday cake

My daughter turned four last week and she requested a vanilla cake with sprinkles. "Sure," I thought, "how hard can that be," right? I made a delicious vanilla cake batter, dumped in a ton of sprinkles and popped it on the oven … … boy 

pasta alla vodka

pasta alla vodka

We love pasta! I mean, who doesn’t, right? The only problem is, we tend to eat the same pasta dishes, over and over again. So I decided to make pasta alla vodka for us, just to switch is up a bit. I didn’t have Penne 

brown butter chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies

brown butter chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies

It’s rainy and gray here today so we decided to bake up a batch of cookies 🍪!     I looove chocolate oatmeal cookies and these are divine because of the brown butter and chocolate chunks because they become extra gooey 😍. Bonus: they are super easy 

homemade gnocchi 

homemade gnocchi 

I haven’t made gnocchi since culinary school. For some reason I keep remembering it to be more labor intensive than it really it 😜. In reality, while it takes a little time and prep, it’s super easy! Since it rained literally all day here today 🌧, it 

flour tortillas

I LOVE taco night 🌮😍!! I used to buy flour tortillas in the store but tried making them myself a few months ago … and let me tell you I’M NEVER GOING BACK TO STORE BOUGHT!! I’ve been trying them over and over and have 

christmas snowballs

christmas snowballs

I am going to my first ever christmas cookie exchange tomorrow 🎄🍪🎅🏼😊. I thought I’d bring along one of those dump all the ingredients in a bowl cookie dough recipes, that are super easy to whip up, yet everyone raves about it. And let’s be honest, 

Christmas Stars with Lemon Curd

Christmas Stars with Lemon Curd

I was planning on baking christmas cookies with my little girl today, but since she’s been banished to the couch with a fever, I figured I’d play around with the cookie doughs I had prepared and get a little fancier 😉.   These lemon curd 

homemade vanilla extract

homemade vanilla extract

Twice a year our local liquor store has a HUGE sale! They sell everything just $1 over what they buy it for!! What an awesome deal, right?! Since hard liquor has a super high mark up, I figured this was the time to stock up on some vodka and 

turkey stock 

turkey stock 

Today I spent the whole morning cooking a turkey for a 🦃 carving “how to” article I am working on. After carving, I threw the bones into a large pot with onions, carrots, rosemary, a bay leave, thyme, sage, lots of whole black pepper, covered 

cranberry sauce

cranberry sauce

With Thanksgiving next week, I’ve slowly started prepping for our meal. We are going to keep it very low key this year, but that doesn’t mean I can’t make the cranberry sauce now, right 😉? I almost feel bad calling this a recipe, because I’m