Category: Recipes

  • Chocolate Chip Pancakes

    Chocolate Chip Pancakes

    Last year, I may have tested around 15-20 pancake recipes; fun pregnant activities. All sorts of flours, oils, eggs or egg substitutes. I have quite a few critics at hand and many of them with no filter so I know when something’s not a crowd pleaser 😅 this recipe was

  • Mini Pumpkin Pies

    Mini Pumpkin Pies

    The kids and I made these cuties for Luke’s class thanksgiving party which happened this morning. I love how they came out but truth be told, I have such an intimidation factor with pies! I also don’t have the best baking/cooking with kids track record. Room to grow people, room to grow 🙂 Thus is…

  • Avocado Toast

    Avocado Toast

    Avocado season is back! At least, they’re not four bucks a pop for now, ha. The welcoming of Spring-like weather somehow helps my fruit and veggie cravings grow. And that strong desire for cozy baked winter dishes like buttered, maple drenched pancakes or cheesy, sausage and kale quiche (you know, just general cravings, right?) are…

  • Toddler Mealtime Prep

    Toddler Mealtime Prep

    Mealtimes can be a marathon with small children, especially anyone under five (which is 100 percent of our kids at this current moment, ha). Our two oldest are coming to the age where they can are readily helpful around mealtime, and are interested in doing it! I love to have their help in the kitchen;…

  • Healthy Kids Snacks

    Healthy Kids Snacks

    Snacks. Quite the dangerous subject in our home. We find that we prefer less snacking in general, as they seem to lead to barely touched dinners. I usually aim to feed the kids the most in the earlier parts of the day but sometimes their appetites object and we find ourselves scavenging for an afternoon…

  • Chicken Soup

    I haven’t been feeling the best so I’ve been cooking up a lot of comforting, savory soups and broths. I love the rich taste of a broth from scratch, flavors are so much more distinguishable—the mirepoix, turmeric, onion, garlic, and tender chunks of chicken. They truly don’t take too much time or attention, which is helpful…

  • Zopf

    The weather has been a bit colder in the days following Christmas and it’s just felt perfectly agreeable to make things, even after the cookie extravaganza of 2018 (I think I’ve been baking daily for like two weeks now!). This recipe is one I’ve used over the years for Swiss Sunday bread, Zopf, or Züpfe…

  • Baking and making, a list

    Five seasonal-ish recipes that I’m really enjoying as of late: 1) Morning glory muffins, hold me back! These muffins are an ode to a muffin that I’ve loved for years (this all sounds very odd..) which is the California muffin from Kelly’s here in town (a carrot apple masterpiece really). So I’ve been toying with…

  • Chocolate Chip Cookies

    This is my absolute favorite cookie recipe. This is originally from here, but i’ve tweaked it just a bit. I cannot tell you ENOUGH how much amazing feedback I get on these. I can eat so many of them, it’s shameful, or impressive? But every school function, community event, bridal/baby shower, family party, YOU NAME…

  • Fall Recipes

    So super excited to give these recipes a test. Some on the healthier side, while some are emulating all that fall meals should—hearty,

  • Homemade Bread

    After a plethora of homebound days over the last few weeks, my inner baker has started to surface. The rainy forecast hasn’t helped. At this rate, our household will need an emergency juice fast before Thanksgiving. Until then, we march on! I don’t have too much experience with the non-sweet breads. I’ve been coached a few times on Swiss Sunday…

  • Chocolate Chip Cookies

    This is my absolute favorite cookie recipe. This is originally from here, but i’ve tweaked it just a bit. I cannot tell you ENOUGH how much amazing feedback I get on these. I can eat so many of them, it’s shameful, or impressive? But every school function, community event, bridal/baby shower, family party, YOU NAME…

  • Harvest Chili

    it’s harvest chili people! you know.. for eating after a long day at harvest. or in my case, eating after a long day at work and then congregating with a large mass of our favorite teenagers (here’s looking at you, dear youth group) while carving pumpkins and playing games and sweating. the sweating part is…

  • Lemon Aoili Potato Salad

    any potato salad lovers out there?? i love potato salad. i love it when it’s bad for you (mayo city, my husband shudders at the sound) and i love it when it’s good for you (all the veggies). i love heaping it high on my plate at a barbecue and adding an extra dash when…

  • Cinque Pi (Italian pasta dish)

    This is one of my favorite dishes that I ate experienced in Switzerland, and oh boy it is so delicious {and simple}! It is called “cinque pi” which basically mean five ingredients and is pronounced “chin-queh-pay” or something like that, heh. It was so simple and we made it for sixty people with about an hour…

  • Chicken Parmesan

    after a long [way too stinking long] monday, James and I cozied up for dinner and a movie, interrupted by a short what-the-heck-i-forgot-to-pay-a-bill-moment in which we jammed out of the house in a big flurry. i grabbed my macbook and zoomed down to our local coffee house to swindle and barter with the one-love hippie barista to…