Tag: recipe review

  • Recipe Review | Sausage + Butternut Riggies

    the recipe | Rachael Ray’s Sausage + Butternut Riggies. I made the first of my list of Rachael Ray recipes to conquer! This was one of those recipes that had me absolutely drooling while I watched her cook. I could not wait to make it!

  • Mushroom & Artichoke Pastry Cups

    I have been working on my “use my cookbooks” goal a bit more this month, and doing pretty well.  This simple and incredible meal came from a cookbook, and I just HAD to share.  These awesome little pastry cups are filled with sautéed mushrooms, garlic, chives, and marinated artichoke hearts and stuffed into puff pastry. …

  • World’s Easiest Cinnamon Rolls

    I wasn’t planning to turn these into a post, as they were just a spur-of-the-moment Christmas morning treat.  But I snapped some pictures of them, and the pictures turned out pretty well and the cinnamon rolls are even better.  So I had to share. Preston left Christmas morning to go see his family, and I had…

  • Vegetable Soup w/ Chickpea Dumplings

    This super simple soup recipe is a winner.  Being in the cold snow made me want soup for lunch as soon as Preston and I got back on Sunday.  We took a pit stop at the store to grab some ingredients, and I got home and started making soup. I pulled up a recipe I’ve…

  • Perfect Spiced Molasses Cookies

    Welcome to the week that will be full of alcohol and baked goods.  Because that’s what my weekend was full of.  Partially influenced by hormones and partly by the cold, I spent my weekend eating surprisingly healthy meals (I loaded up on salads, roasted veggies, surprisingly healthy pasta sauce, and skewered Brussels sprouts from a food…

  • Blueberry Custard Cake

    Oh man, this week is hectic!  I am trying to get some Christmas things lined up, including preparing for two holiday parties/gift exchanges tomorrow.  Plus I’ve got birthdays thrown into the holiday mix, too!  It’s been a little crazed.  Mostly in a great way.  The holidays are so fun, running errands at this time of…

  • Classic Sugar Cookies

    One of my all-time favorite recipes has finally arrived!  I can’t even believe I’ve never posted this.  These cookies are super basic and have been a regular for me since I was little. The recipe comes from my very first cookbook, Williams Sonoma Kids Cooking.  It was a really fun book when I was little. …

  • Mozzarella & Jam Panini

    Preston’s weird Peanut Butter Grilled Cheese inspired me to re-create one of my old favorite weird-sandwich combos: a sandwich made with mozzarella cheese and jam. It’s so good!  Maybe less weird than the peanut butter grilled cheese – just think about a traditional cheese plate.  Fruit, jam, crackers, and cheese.  Normal.  Baked brie with jam. …

  • Baked Lasagna Toss (aka Almost Lasagna)

    I just HAD to make another recipe with the second half of this ricotta recipe.  I can’t get over how much I love it.  This is the recipe I thought I’d start with rather than my squash pasta, but as I mentioned I went all squash-crazy at the store, so plans changed.  Now it’s time…

  • Chocolate Babka

    I have had a torn out recipe from Cooking Light for years: chocolate babka.   Even though I cook all the time, there are still recipes every now and then that are completely intimidating.  This was one of them.   One that I simply decided to get over.  Last week when I made my simple white bread,…