This is the time of year when my garden always goes from quaint, farmhouse garden to the jungle from Jumanji. All the vegetables are expanding and pushing out of their little spaces into the aisles and encroaching on each other….
Mini Blackberry Lavender & Lemon Icebox Cake
Summer can often feel too humid, too hot and too busy to fit in a meal. Here it’s been in the 90’s for weeks and the humidity has been intense. You start sweating the second you walk out the door,…
Homemade Blueberry Danish
I’m not a big breakfast person, but I am a big coffee-at-3-p.m.-with-a-side-of-something-sweet-person. When I can get it and let myself indulge, one of my favorite things to have with my coffee is sweet, flakey, buttery Blueberry Danish. It’s funny how…
Caramelized Onion & Tomato Tart + tomato tips
Slicing into your first homegrown tomato of the season is like a treat for the senses. The vibrant colors, the smell of fresh dirt mixed with the promise of something delicious and the firmness as your blade makes the first…
How to make sourdough bread from starter
I’m a sourdough bread newbie. I haven’t been making it for years like some people have, but I actually think that gives me an advantage when explaining it to you. Sometimes I think people who have been making sourdough bread…
Butter Parmesan Sourdough Crackers
Since I started growing my sourdough starter, I’ve had a lot of heart burn about throwing away the sourdough starter discard. While I love having the sourdough starter available for bread and pizza dough and other fun things, throwing away…
How to make sourdough starter
I didn’t make a sourdough starter for sourdough bread for a long time because it was intimidating. There were so many people out there giving so many tips – bloggers, YouTubers, Instagramers – everyone made it look like a complicated…
Irish Soda Bread Recipe
I ate Irish Soda Bread for the first time a few years ago. It was this delicious, dense, biscuit-like bread that I slathered with butter and enjoyed with a good cup of coffee. A friend made Irish Soda Bread…
Roasted Cauliflower Soup
Soups are my favorite way to make it through winter. I love when they’re packed with vegetables, warm and filling. They literally feel like they’re refueling my body and soul one spoonful at a time. I’ve been on a…
Perfect roasted carrot fries recipe
Carrots are one of my favorite vegetables. Whether they’re roasted carrots caramelized to perfection, soft and full of flavor after being cooked in a slow simmering soup or raw with a perfect crunch, they’re a vegetable that’s always delicious. …
Bacon & Goat Cheese Mini Popovers
When I was 25, I worked in corporate America at one of the leading fast food chains in the world. It was a grueling world, where my optimism, can-do attitude, lack of a MBA and youth were always working against…
Caramelized Onion & Rosemary Ricotta Dip
I could make a meal of appetizers. When I’m out at a restaurant, I like to order a bunch of appetizers verses a full meal. I love to taste different types of cuisine and experience different types of food. Appetizers…
