Oatmeal Energy Bites
Does this ever happen to you?: Some time in September—because you are planning ahead—you diligently buy two bags of candy to give out at Halloween. (Naturally, you buy the good kinds, the chocolate kinds you actually like, because last year only four children and one group of ridiculous teenagers came to your door…and if there’s […]
I heard a terrible, terrible rumor a few weeks ago: apparently, we are about to experience a worldwide shortage of hazelnuts! Gasp! The horror! Before you run out and buy every jar of Nutella in the store (and don’t think I haven’t contemplated that), let’s try a healthier yet equally delicious version of the incomparable […]
It’s Secret Recipe Club time again, and this month I was so pleased to be baking with Rebekah of Family, Food, and Fun. Do you ever come across someone’s blog and immediately feel disappointed that they live so far away? As I was reading about Rebekah and perusing her recipes (oh my! so many delicious […]
It’s summer. It’s hot. I sometimes have to wear a bathing suit. But I still want chocolate desserts. (So sue me. I don’t like fruit, remember?) So let’s just settle back and imagine the perfect summery chocolate dessert. One that is light and airy and melts in your mouth. One that doesn’t feel like it’s […]
*Drool.* (That’s basically what happened to me the first time I stumbled across this recipe.) It’s the end of National Ice Cream Month, and I am still on a homemade-ice-cream-for-all kick. No ice cream machine? No problem! This ice cream really did require a lot of patience, though. First I had to make dulce de […]
I tend to resist buying things if there is the slightest chance I could make them at home. Things that are delicious and definitely need to be a part of my life. Things like dulce de leche. But then, often, I get scared or distracted, and before I know it two years have passed and […]
You are going to LOVE me. (Or hate me.) I have found the perfect ice cream recipe. I mean seriously. Hang up your hat, make yourself at home, look no further, this is the best ice cream in the world. Just in time for National Ice Cream Month! Why is this ice cream so perfect? Let […]
I sometimes joke that my entrance exam into my husband’s family was learning the recipe for rhubarb pie. Dave really loves rhubarb. But he has never even batted an eye at my suggestions of non-pie rhubarb desserts…until one day last week, when he suddenly looked up and asked me to make him a rhubarb coffee […]
I must say, I love ice cream. I love it all year long! But there is something magical about ice cream on a hot day. The way it drips down your fingers and chin, the cold, refreshing sweet cream on your tongue… I heard the ice cream truck touring through the neighborhood a few days […]