For over four years, I have been gifting Easton’s teachers with mason jars full of food that comes from our kitchen: cookies, marshmallows or chocolate bark*, usually. For the holidays, I give them proper presents, but for other occasions, like Easton’s last day in their class, Teacher Appreciation Day and Valentine’s Day, we bake. To…
Sweets
(Fresh) Cranberry Feta Scones
I have a babysitter once a week. I feel incredibly lucky for our amazing babysitter, and for that one day. As I’m learning, life as a freelancer is weird and unpredictable. Some weeks, I’m not sure how it will be physically possible to get all of my work done between Reeve’s daily nap, the girls’…
Triple Sesame Cookies
There are a lot of reasons why I haven’t been blogging: we traveled as a family and I need time to mentally prepare and recover, I think I’m having a bit of a career crisis, and Reeve naps less and is go-go-go much more. But truthfully, it’s this: I became obsessed with perfecting one cookie…
Chocolate Hazelnut Goat Cheese Truffles
These Chocolate Hazelnut Goat Cheese Truffles were supposed to a bagel spread. For months, it’s been in the back of my head — an easy way to bring a homemade touch to a mostly, picked-up-last minute brunch. It seemed like a plan: a couple-ingredients, Nutella-ish mixture, smeared over a bagel, next to fruit and maybe…
Salted Rosemary Oat Bark
ROUND ONE It was 1am and I was sitting on the kitchen floor, watching my first attempt at this Salted Rosemary Oat Bark, bake. When I first poured the oat mixture onto the pan, I had been struck by how little dough I actually had made. Now, I cringed as melted butter oozed out the sides, making…
Homemade Chocolate Chipotle Marshmallows
When you’re constantly thinking about a week’s worth of dinners and planning for life, it’s too easy to forget about the fun stuff. I know, because I did for a long time. When I was making sure that a big batch of oatmeal was portioned out, vegetables were cut and roasted, soups were simmered and…
Triple Coconut Bars
Before, kids, I spent a lot of time imagining my life with them. We would read books and eat Dim Sum on Christmas Day, snuggle up in the morning, in bed, and we would cook together, always. I didn’t know what I was talking about. Yes, we do all of those things, but none of them…
Homemade Coconut Extract
Lately, I’ve read about so many recipes calling for coconut extract. But, I’ve always tended to be skeptical of most extracts, besides vanilla and most that I’ve found in stores say things like Coconut Extract flavoring, or Coconut Extract, made with artificial and natural flavors. That never seems like a good idea. Even though recipes keep popping up that I’m…