Recipes

I love the fall. Great sports, changing leaves, cool weather (in theory – not here), and delicious food. Mike and I have gone a little crazy over all the limited time pumpkin and spiced apple items at our local stores. But that’s okay, because it’s sweater weather (in theory – not here) and sweaters are…

I can’t believe it’s taken me all this time to do this recipe. Chop Suey was a FAVORITE food in my house growing up. I’d be stoked whenever I came home from school and my gramma had it simmering on the stove. It’s the perfect fall food, all warm and delicious. Chop Suey You need:

I realized this morning that we’ve been in our house a year now, which means I’m at the end of Mike’s cooking challenge. While I didn’t achieve cooking something weekly, thanks to life events and the like, I came close. And, I found that cooking is not as hard as I thought, although I’m not…

There’s a lovely town a few hours up the coast from us called Solvang that was established by a group of Danes, and even today it’s like a little slice of Denmark right here in California. Mike and I love escaping there. Several years ago our friends were married there, which resulted in a fun…

I’m always looking for easy recipes, and my Aunt Lynn told me that she had a simple and delicious biscuit recipe of my Nana’s that she often used. Annabel loves anything you can put butter on, so I had my aunt come over and we made my Nana’s light and fluffy three ingredient biscuits! Nana’s…

Ever since my party last week, I’ve been obsessed with Sangria. Until I made the peach one, I’d never considered making a sangria that was exclusively dedicated to one fruit flavor. But it got me thinking about my favorite fruit flavor, raspberry. I will eat or drink raspberry flavored anything. So I decided to concoct a…

At a family dinner last year, my aunts made potato gratin cups. Potatoes au gratin are a family favorite, so my aunts thought they were being so clever making these cute little cups. And they were, except they went over TOO well, and everyone wanted more…but we’d eaten them all. So what I’m saying is,…