A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
I’ve been cleaning out my pantry for over two months now, and it’s finally emptying out! Just a few more lingering random ingredients to be used up. One of the most lingering: some dried cranberries. I’m not sure even why they were purchased. I am not usually someone who seeks out cranberries. Nothing against them,…
I spent most of Sunday feeling sleep deprived, because Daylight Savings Time has struck again! I’m not sure whether we’re leaving or entering Daylight Savings – I’ve never known which time was the Original Time. Is the forward or backward an hour part of the year the time it was before Daylight Savings? I know…
In the past week, I have broken a glass, a plate, and a mug. I filled the glass with ice, then turned back around to the counter, and missed by a few inches, hitting the glass against the side of the counter, and it practically sheared in half. Then, I thought I had put a…
When I was in college, I lived in an apartment with three other girls. It was an incredibly run-down apartment, and it was near impossible to keep clean. And I don’t mean that in a lazy way. I think if you spent a day cleaning it, with no furniture or items in it, it would…
One of my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes is this one, which used date syrup from Trader Joe’s. Tragically, Trader Joe’s stopped selling the date syrup. There’s substitutes for date syrup, I’m sure. Or even other places to get it. I don’t know how much of how good the cookies were was related to the…
My mom recently got me a subscription to the most delightful monthly newspaper: Baking Nation. A newspaper delivered every month filled with baking related history, recipes, puzzles, horoscopes, and tips and tricks. What more could you ask of a newspaper?? Nothing, I say. There’s also a cozy mystery story with monthly installments, so it’s really…
I waxed on about my new baby Bundt pan a few weeks ago. It really is a delightful addition to my kitchen. It would be ridiculous to make an entire hot chocolate Bundt cake in the middle of the week, with no holiday or occasion. But a little mini Bundt on a random Tuesday? It’s…
I have been in a bit of a capital-F Funk recently. I can only blame the February doldrums. Perhaps I was too bold in talking about how great a year 2025 was, and I needed to be humbled. There’s been the big things. As in, we started the year with Minneapolis being the most politically-charged…