Author: karen

One holiday no long after my sister in-law joined the family she made the BEST treats and brought them to the Christmas Eve party. I asked her what they were and she shared her recipe for Almond Toffee Bars. I’ve been making them as part of my holiday treat box pretty much every since. The […]

When I got married spritzes became a holiday tradition at my house. My husband got me a “cookie gun” early on and I’ve been using it every year since. A couple of years ago I expanded the number of plates/shapes from the original ones to include some new Xmas specific ones such as Santa, Reindeer, […]

I’ve been doing a ton of holiday baking the last three weeks in order to be able to send out treat boxes this week. I have lots of recipes for cookies and there are several that I typically make every year. However, most years I try a couple new recipes. This year I decided I […]

One of my favorite things about the holidays is making treats for family and friends, most of whom live far away. In order to get treats done and sent to arrive on time I typically have to start my baking the weekend after Thanksgiving. This is because I make a dozen different treats. This year […]

Some days it is REALLY hard to get excited about making food. This is especially true when I’m cooking for my six year old and I. He is the typical “picky eater”. He has his favorites: mac & cheese, any tube meat (aka sausage, hot dogs), pasta, grilled cheese and most recently he decide chicken […]

One of my favorite weekend activities is going to the local farmer’s market to get ingredients to make food for the week. I’m a big fan of farm fresh chicken eggs and typically try to get them at the market. Unfortunately the last two weeks none of the vendors has had them. I was really […]

One of my favorite breakfast things are sous vide egg bites at Starbucks. Along with being super tasty, they contain a terrific amount of protein and no carbs. As a result they a pretty much my “go to” quick breakfast pick up thing. The only problem is that they are kind of an expensive habit […]

Yes. It is another lemon-based recipe. I’m still working my way through the bag of lemons and the big bottle of juice I’ve squeezed. My spouse suggested perhaps a creamy lemon pasta dish would be good. I resoundingly agreed and set about cobbling together a workable recipe. Any cream sauce is really just butter, flour, […]

It is holiday baking time again and I’ve been tweaking recipes or riffing on old recipes in order to come up with things for this year’s holiday bakery box. One recipe I decided needed a new spin were the double chocolate cookies. This started out as a Mrs Fields recipe but over the years has […]

This fall I began a bit of a food research project about mincemeat. As a child in rural Maine, mincemeat was something which was made every fall when my dad harvested a deer. We’d typically have a pie made of it at either/both Thanksgiving and Christmas time. I didn’t realize when I moved away to […]