Sometimes March can be such a struggle to get through, even with the promise of Spring so close by! Apparently I got through it by baking FOUR cakes, and planning a fun adventure you’ll hear more about soon: I kicked off the month by going to my friend Jen’s birthday party, which started at Famous......

I’ve been lusting after these cookies ever since Sally posted them last summer. I just needed a good excuse to make them, and that came in the form of my friend Jen’s birthday party this month. She loves chocolate and peanut butter so I knew they’d be perfect. I’ve tried a few recipes like this......

I really went all out with my Valentine’s baking this month (see here + here); it was so fun to be able to share treats again after two Valentine’s in lockdown! I also got invited to a Galentine’s Party! Here’s the scoop: I kicked off the month by going to Campechano with my Libra Gang......

The first time people see these cookies (me included), the first question is: how’d you get the heart in there? I’ve never clicked on anything so fast when Deb posted them last February, and slowly a light went on in my brain when I saw how the whole thing worked. I saved them for this......

I love baking for Valentine’s Day/Galentine’s Day, and since I didn’t really make any treats for Christmas, I was excited to spend some time in the kitchen, and had a super long list of things I wanted to bake. I also had two years worth of Val’s/Gal’s recipes stored up since we were in lockdown......

What a strange, yet thrilling concept to be able to leave the house in January! Seriously, after the past two Januarys in lockdown, I was so happy to be able to go into the office, have some visits with friends and go out for tasty dinners: Alexis and her kids came over for a swim......

I went on a bit of a baking bender this past weekend, making a bunch of things for my friend Weedy and their family. Since I didn’t really do much baking in December, I had such a fun time settling back into my kitchen, pulling out all my ingredients and mixing up a storm. I......

I spent a lot of this month minding my own business because I didn’t want to get sick before my Christmas trip (!), but I did do a couple of fun things before my self-imposed isolation: First though, I made a care package for a friend and pulled some deep cuts from the archives: Carrot......

Continuing on with my retro party snacks, here’s another thing that reminds me of Christmas holidays when I was a kid. For whatever reason, my Mom would only buy chip dip* at Christmas time. That thick, stinky (in a good way) tub of onion dip would get peeled open and devoured with a bag of......

I’m extremely devoted to my Bits & Bites recipe; it’s one of my most nostalgic recipes that reminds me of being a kid at Christmas time. When I wrote that post in 2020 (one of my last pre-pandemic posts!) I mentioned how Deb had a fancy version on Smitten Kitchen, but I wasn’t ready to......