As stated multiple times on this blog, I am just not a soup person. Once in a while, I’ll take a chance on something that sounds like I might like it, and I did that last Winter with this soup from Pinch of Yum. I vaguely remembered that I liked it, but decided to give......

I think I was prepared for the worst this month with another looming lockdown and the onset of frigid weather, but I managed to make it out of January (relatively) unscathed. I blogged about an old fave, a couple of new faves, and a new project I’m excited about. Here are the other things that......

I’ve really been missing Baked Sunday Mornings lately. I would usually take a break from the group each year over the holidays because of other baking plans, and then would re-join with renewed passion and commitment every January. Because we wrapped up our journey back in May, this was the first January in 10 years......

I’ve had this recipe bookmarked for ages, and even though I’m trying not to make any BA recipes, I just couldn’t delete it. I had a hunch these cookies would be like Sesame Snaps* in cookie formation, and I just had to see if I was right. I also unearthed a plastic bag of toasted......

I unabashedly love Mexican chain restaurants. Give me a a bottomless basket of tortilla chips and salsa, and then a flaming cast iron skillet of chicken fajitas and I am the happiest camper. Lone Star has been my go to for so many years; at my first job after university it’s where I bonded with......

I haven’t made anything new from the Half Baked Harvest blog in a hot minute, and as soon as I started preparing this recipe I remembered why. So many components! So many ingredients! So many dishes! I kind of hoped this wouldn’t be good after all this, but damn, it really was. And it only......

For the past five years, my friend Krishna has hosted an epic New Year’s Day brunch. For four out of those five years I didn’t make it, as I typically observe NYD in my PJs and refuse to leave my couch. I finally attended last year and had so much fun that I didn’t resurface......

My pet peeve this month was hearing “the holidays are going to look a little different this year”. A little different? Try a whole hell of a lot different. No Christmas parties, no potlucks at work, no cookie exchanges, no fam jam, and no New Year’s Day brunch. Terrible. I tried to keep the Christmas......

Every December I convince myself I’ll have time to make decorated sugar cookies for various Christmas parties or cookie platters, and of course I never do. They’re so pretty, but so time-consuming, so instead I make them for Valentine’s Day (you can see them on my Instagram going back over the years in so many......

Even though I declared last year that my Champagne & Cookies party had come to an end, I found myself missing it this year. I guess that’s the difference between making a decision yourself versus having a global pandemic make it for you. Normally I would have spent the month of November in cookie brainstorming......