From one foodie to another, there is nothing I would love more than to spend all of my days making stockings full of amazing foodie gifts! Small cooking and baking items are often overlooked - they’re not necessarily the most glamorous and they don’t have hefty price tags - but they literally can change your…
I am one of those people that has all of the kitchen things. Between my personal love for cooking (and therefore all things kitchen!) our wedding in the last year and the move to Chicago (with a much bigger, beautiful kitchen than we had in NYC), it is a mecca. Perhaps the one thing I…
I had a lot of ambition to make so many different Christmas cookies this year, but it just didn't happen and time completely snuck away from me! Luckily, I got to make a few of my favs (maybe I'll just have to start calling them New Year cookies or something so I can make the…
The holidays are not over yet (or at least, I'm certainly still eating and baking like they're not!) and I knew I had to fit in this Holiday Star Bread! I had seen images of it and bookmarked them (let's be serious, I have a Google doc of recipes I want to make....) several times.…
Molasses is a flavor that just makes me feel like the holidays. A little bit gingerbread-esque, it's a perfect warm, homey-ness (and it makes me lose all self control when it comes to cookies!). These Molasses Cookies are seriously so good (can I say crack? They taste like crack). I will say that when I…
I came across this recipe on Epicurious and immediately thought that someone named Marie-Hélène obviously must make an amazing apple cake. To fill you in a bit on the back story (I had to do some digging) Marie-Hélène Brunet-Lhoste is a friend of Dorie Greenspan (enough said, right?) as well as a top editor of the Louis Vuitton…
It's our first cold and truly windy day in Chicago. I'm not too intimidated by the cold, but I've been bracing for the wind, and I must say, it is not messing around! Today was high 40s / low 50s, but crazy windy and let me tell you, that makes it seriously cold. When we're…
Cornbread is one of those things that I follow a different recipe nearly every time I make it. Not to say that the ones I have made aren't good, there are just so many great variations! This Skillet Cornbread is fantastic for a chili or hearty stew where you know you're going to be dunking…
It's not over 'til it's over! At least, that's my mantra with this Mixed Berry Galette from this past week! As long as I see those amazing berries in the store, I will be buying them and hanging on as long as I can (in the same breath, I'll fully admit that I bought a…
These gorgeous Chocolate Chunk Granola Bars popped up on my Instagram feed the other day (one of my favorite ways to find recipes I want to make) and I just had to have them! Gluten and dairy-free, these can also be made nut-free, so lot of options! I followed the recipe from Smitten Kitchen to…
