Pumpkin Gingersnap Bars with Gingered Cream Cheese Topping
Halloween blew my two years old’s mind. Totally blew it. For weeks we’d been talking about how he would be Captain America on Halloween, while his brothers would be Hulk and Thor. Daddy would be Iron...
View ArticleHow to Carve Your Thanksgiving Turkey – Photo Guide
In charge of carving the bird this Thanksgiving? Most of us carve a turkey once a year, if that, which means that just about all of us could use a little refresher on how to tackle that big golden...
View ArticleThanksgiving Menu Ideas
Hey, folks… Reposting last year’s round-up of Thanksgiving ideas for a little menu-planning inspiration! ~Amy APPETIZERS Cranberry Chipotle Meatballs Corn and Bacon Fritters with Smoked Salmon...
View ArticleRainbow Cookie Cake
Is anybody else planning on getting their two-year-old a Harry & David fruit basket for Christmas this year?? I’m guessing I might be the only one, and yet, I’m 99.99% certain that it will be his...
View ArticleTriple Ginger Cookies and Holiday Sangria
This past weekend, I hosted my third annual cookie exchange party. Cookie party, for me, is quite simply an excuse to have a bunch of my friends over to my festively adorned house, so we can indulge in...
View ArticlePeppermint Mocha Cakes
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… We’re at the three day countdown to Christmas and the excitement is bubbling over in our home. Our annual cookie exchange took place last weekend, and...
View ArticleCreamy Non-Dairy Tropical Smoothie
((Sheepishly sneaks back into the blogging room, pretending as if she hasn’t been absent for the past three months)) If the look he gave me at the doctor’s office is any indication, I’m going to be in...
View ArticleTequila-Braised Chicken
It seems that I blinked and almost two years went by since I’ve written. A lot has happened in two years. We renovated and sold our old house, then bought another house, packed and moved. We took the...
View ArticleShaved Brussells Sprouts, Bacon, and Potato Hash
Physicists define entropy as: a measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system; inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society. Sometimes my home feels like a case study in...
View ArticleCrab Cake Eggs Benedict
My four year old, James, and I are in the midst of an intense, ongoing biblical debate regarding the book of Genesis, more specifically the story of creation. James was taught in school that God...
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