Let me interrupt your regularly scheduled (blog post) programming to bring you cookies! Healthier cookies, to be exact. The ones that make you do a happy dance around the holiday dessert table because they’re so Keep Reading
Chai Spiced Banana Bread
We just got 5 inches of snow, and after frolicking around my back yard, shoveling the porch and back walkway, and taking way too many pictures outside, I’m pretty frozen. Like, numb fingertips, need-warmth-now frozen. I Keep Reading
Crispy Smashed Potatoes
Recipes come and go in my kitchen with no real rhyme or reason. I’m always chasing new ideas and flavors, so If a recipe gets made more than a few times, let alone for years Keep Reading
Maple Bourbon Pecan Pie Bars
It makes me so happy to share recipes like this one, that taste just as good (if not better!) than the old-school corn syrup and margarine-laden versions. Recipes that are seemingly indulgent and could fool any Keep Reading
Rosemary Browned Butter Mashed Sweet Potatoes
I know, I know, you’re up to your ears in mashed side dishes for Thanksgiving. Trust me, I’ve been there. I love texture, and don’t want to fill up my plate on Thanksgiving day with Keep Reading
Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal with Maple Cinnamon Pecans
Happy Sunday! We’re in the final countdown to Thanksgiving!! What’s on your menu for this year? I’m thinking: Fall Kale Salad Maple-Dijon Roasted Brussels Sprouts Whole Wheat Butternut Spice Cake and Healthy Pecan Pie Truffles Plus, Keep Reading
Maple-Dijon Roasted Brussels Sprouts
One way or another, I always find myself in charge of most of the Thanksgiving sides. My family likes to stick with the classics, but there’s always room for a few extra, exciting vegetables. These Keep Reading
How to Make Pumpkin Puree
Homemade pumpkin purée leaves canned pumpkin in its dust! It’s creamy, sweet, and bright orange, and just what you need for all your Thanksgiving baking. It also makes an underrated-but overly appreciated- gift for friends Keep Reading
Pumpkin Pie Smoothie
Happy November! Time to bust out the pumpkin pie (smoothies!). Confession: I made this smoothie with butternut squash because we have an entire bushel of it that needs to be used up, and I’m not Keep Reading
Sunday Night Polenta
I could have titled this recipe Goat Cheese Polenta Bowls with Roasted Kabocha Squash and Spinach-Asiago Pesto, but then the beauty of this easy, use-up-whatever-you-have-in-the-fridge meal would be lost. By Sunday there’s always a few leftover Keep Reading