Ever Made Pasta That Made Your Kitchen Smell Like Heaven? You know, I wasn’t always a steak-with-pasta type person — heck, my first attempt at this creamy garlic butter steak pasta with fusilli almost ended with the smoke alarm giving me a panic attack! But there’s something about a rainy evening, a good Spotify playlist,…
Oh Hey, Let’s Bake: My (Possibly Over-Loved) Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Okay, so picture this: big ol’ October drizzle out the window, my kitchen already smelling like someone lit ten holiday candles at once, and me, elbow-deep in a bowl of cookie dough (cookie dough that’s orange, because, well, pumpkins). Actually, almost burned a batch…
Why I Can’t Stop Making Martha Stewart’s Oven-Baked French Toast Confession time: this French toast is the only brunch recipe I’ve made three weeks in a row that did NOT receive any complaints from my peanut gallery (aka, the kids and my husband who thinks he’s a brunch snob now). The first time I whipped…
Pull Up a Chair: My First Foray Into Oprah’s “Un-Fried” Chicken Okay, so—I’ll be honest, the first time I tried making this Un-Fried Chicken recipe from Oprah’s Chef Rosie Daley, I didn’t think much of it. I mean, “un-fried”? Sounds suspiciously like the time my aunt tried to make sugar-free chocolate pie (may it rest…
So, Here’s the Story Behind My Spook-tacular Breadsticks Let me just say, these “Bones & Blood” Breadsticks really started as a halfway-serious attempt to impress my neighbor’s kids on Halloween—they’re tough critics, honestly harder to please than my Aunt Beryl. Anyway, I made these once thinking they’d either be a total Pinterest fail or… well,…
Let’s Talk Pumpkin Roll Cake (No Perfection Required) I have to admit: every year about mid-September, I get that restless, oh-so-basic urge to bake something pumpkin-y. My sister calls it ‘Turning Into a Gourd’ season. Anyway, this Pumpkin Roll Cake is usually the first thing I make. The first time I tried, mine looked more…
Listen, Creamed Spinach Has Always Been My Cozy Zone So picture this — middle of winter, my dad shivering at the window declaring it’s ‘colder than a witch’s nose’ outside (he actually used another word, but you know) and the rest of us in the kitchen, basically waiting for something, anything, to warm us up….
Let’s Talk About Why I Obsess Over These Rolls If you would’ve told me years ago that Parker House rolls—those pillowy, golden bundles—would become the star of my Thanksgiving spread, I probably would’ve raised an eyebrow and kept mashing my potatoes. But here we are. There’s just something nostalgic about them; I remember the first…
Let’s Talk About This Stuffing (And My Slight Obsession with It) So—real talk—I have a theory that stuffing is the true star of any feast. Turkey, ham, whatever… fine, but the stuffing? That’s what people actually fight over in my family. I remember one Thanksgiving a few years back when my cousin (not naming names,…
There’s Just Something About Thanksgiving Prime Rib Okay, true confession—I used to think turkey was the only way to go for Thanksgiving, like some sort of unspoken rule handed down from Aunt Linda. But three years ago, my oven had a meltdown halfway through roasting the bird (no, really—it was like a bad sitcom episode)….