So you know how I usually have something awesome to post? and how I almost always have something interesting/witty to say? (come on…go along with me here.) Welll….some days I eat Jif peanut butter and Welch’s grape jelly sandwiches on white gas station bread with generic ripple potato chips. Yup. It’s true. Other days (while…
I had my younger brothers over for coffee today and they each plowed through two of these teacup cakes and made lots of yummy noises…so I believe this passes as one of those “good enough to post on the blog” recipes. hee hee 😉 The browned butter really brings these little cupcakes up a notch,…
We were trying to figure out a good place to go to dinner last night where we could sit outside. There are a few places in Red Wing, but in the end we decided to pack a picnic and head to the riverside. We stopped at the market and picked up a rotisserie chicken, French…
We just returned from a beautiful riverside picnic. Can’t wait to tell you more about that tomorrow for my six senses post. Tonight is the blue moon, so we’ll be outside on the deck photographing…sipping blue moon wine, looking at the Sky Walk app for the iPad and gazing up at the sky. I am…
My friend Ann has been participating in an A to Z recipe challenge and asking her facebook peeps to share their recipes for the respective letter every day too. Yesterday was “V for Vanilla” and I was SO surprised that I hardly have any posts on my blog featuring vanilla. I shared my recipe for…
Hello Lovelies! I hope you’re all having a great week. It’s strange to be here on a Tuesday, writing a bloggy post that’s not about tea 🙂 As some of you know, I featured my friend Nel’s Battenburg Cake on my Tea Paparazzo facebook page today instead of doing my own TeaTime Tuesday post. To…
Loving this time of summer… it’s warm, but not too warm. The mornings are crisp and cool, beckoning autumn, and slowly making me interested in trading in the berries and fruits of summer for the russet, rustic fare of fall. Plums. such a completely romantic fruit. Surprisingly, I haven’t featured them in many recipes. There…
I’m back from another jaunt to the farmer’s market. Such a beautiful selection of produce these days. Can’t get enough of the heirloom tomatoes, and whenever I come across pattypan squash it’s feels like striking gold. These tender little gems are definitely the creme de la creme of summer squash. They can be prepared so…
Gracie made a big batch of “Dream Cookies” yesterday. This recipe was inspired by the amazingly beautiful blog Color Me Katie. We used our favorite sugar cookie recipe, added a little pure almond extract and a LOT of neon food coloring to the dough and buttercream frosting. (skip the part in the cookie recipe where…
I’m tempted to figure out exactly how many of my homemade salad dressing recipes I have posted and consolidate them into one post for your (and my) convenience. Maybe I’ll publish a little ebook that would be easy to print out and look pretty on your cookbook stand. Would that be something you’d be interested…