We got to spend a wonderful long weekend with my brother and his family in DisneyWorld last week. The parks were so much fun, and the weather was great… until the last day, when it starting raining at 2pm and didn’t stop until well after midnight. And when I say…
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Jalapeño and Cheddar Popovers
Our gruyère popovers are one of the most popular recipes on the blog, and frankly one of our favorite things to make, especially when we have guests. There’s nothing that says welcome, quite like the smell of fresh baked bread. We love to slice them in half when they’re hot out…
Mini Guava Cheesecake
Happy New Year, everyone!! I hope 2015 is a good year for you and your friends & family! And to kick off 2015, here is a sweet and easy recipe for you. My husband loves cheesecake, and really, who doesn’t. To reward him for all the hard work these last couple of weeks…
Pepperoni Rolls
We started the move to our new home last weekend and we’re hoping to be completely moved in next weekend. So, you guys have to bear with me until after the holidays when I’ll probably have internet and my kitchen unpacked to start bringing new recipes to the blog. I knew Friday was going…
Turkey Shepherd’s Pie
I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful time with fantastic friends and of course delicious food. So we’ve been trying to find some creative ways to use all our leftover turkey. Here’s a fun turkey-filled take on the classic shepherd’s pie that gets a little help from leftover gravy…
Roasted Beet Risotto
Beets are one of my favorite vegetables, and I use them in a variety of ways in my kitchen; in my favorite orange, carrot and beets morning juice, as a natural red/pink food colorant, in beet and potato gnocchi, and in one of our house favorites, an easy beet caprese salad. So why…
Apple Pocket Pie
Yes, I still have lots of apples left from our apple picking trip. And when I spotted these cute pie molds from Williams-Sonoma on sale, I couldn’t resist buying and testing them right when i got home. I had a box of store-bought pie dough in my fridge already, so I just chopped the apples,…
Apple Pie in a Jar
A couple weeks ago we took our annual trip to a beautiful orchard in Northern Virginia for a fun day of apple picking. This year we chose Hollin Farms. We’ve been to Hollin Farms several times for strawberry picking, but it was our first time there for apples, and it turned out…
Pumpkin Spice Latte
Pumpkin Spice Latte Makes 4 cups Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup of milk 1 Tbsp pumpkin puree 1 Tbsp brown sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 pumpkin pie spice Directions: Mix all these ingredients in a microwave safe bowl and microwave it for 2 minutes. Use a milk frother until you get…
Apple Rose Tart
We went apple picking last week and brought back a small bag of apples. Then a few days later we hosted lunch for some friends, and our friend Michelle left an even bigger bag of apples she’d picked for us. What to do with all those apples? We tried apple…