A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
I have been sort of… bored recently. There’s lots of things coming up on my calendar to do, but at the moment I don’t have any big projects or anything. Not a lot of going on but the doldrums of the day to day. It can wear on you. Or, at least, it wears on…
A few years ago, I don’t even remember when, I tried Milk Bar’s Coffee Chocolate Passion Fruit layer cake. My mind was blown. I’m fairly certain I tried it before working for them, so it would have had to have been during an NYC visit, before they limited their cake selections so drastically. So it…
I’d like to shoutout my best friend from college, who introduced me to Manchego cheese. We used to get blocks of it at the Trader Joe’s near campus for movie night snacks. Manchego cheese and crackers, maybe a fruit, and… not a lot else. What can I say, that’s just crazy life of college students…
I recently asked my family if they had any baked good requests, and my brother randomly said, “muffins.” I do not know where that request came from, but I will always fulfill a request. So the next day, I whipped up these Ovaltine Muffins, and they were a quick and delicious hit. The Ovaltine makes…
I made these Old Fashioned Old Fashioneds about 4 years ago now, as one of my first “return to the blog” posts. In many ways, it feels like far longer ago than just 4 years. But regardless, I still think about those donuts frequently. They were so good. And I remember being pleasantly surprised by…
These cookies have a lot of coconut in them. They were the perfect reason to use up the shredded coconut in my pantry, and also because I am on a coconut kick at the moment. Coconut just… keeps sounding good. Not sure why, but no point questioning it. Coconut is good. Brown butter is good….
My favorite flavor of the new M&M “bakery” line is the peanut butter cinnamon roll flavor. Eating one of the M&Ms conjured up the taste of my favorite sandwich: peanut butter apple butter on cinnamon swirl bread. There was no apple butter element in the M&Ms, but the peanut butter and cinnamon really worked. Cinnamon…
Early Spring is such a back and forth time here in the Midwest. Some days it’s beautiful, sunny, 60 degrees. Other days (or weeks), it’s 35 degrees and raining/snowing/sleeting. Which is particularly brutal after the aforementioned beautiful 60 degree days. Anyways, lemon feels like a very bright, sunshine-y, spring flavor. So even if this week…