Thanksgiving is one of my all-time favorite holidays. Unlike other celebrations filled with costumes, baskets, and presents, it’s a day focused solely on food and gratitude. I’m all for that! Food is pretty important around here. To celebrate my favorite holiday, I created some cute printables! You can print them for your office or home, or give them to someone …
Pumpkin Maple Walnut Pancakes
Fall is here, and there’s nothing quite like the cozy aroma of pumpkin spice wafting through the kitchen! Today, I’m excited to share a delicious new recipe for pumpkin maple walnut pancakes that perfectly captures the essence of the season. Fluffy, flavorful, and topped with a drizzle of warm syrup, these pancakes are not just a breakfast treat; they’re an …
Strawberry Lemonade Cake
My kids are addicted to lemonade in all its varieties. They especially are fond of the strawberry and raspberry variations. I decided that since they loved lemonade so much, I would try and create a baked culinary concoction with it. What I came up with was so good that it needed to be shared with all of you! This simple …
Keto Friendly Greek Feta Bake
Guys, I am sooo excited to share the BEST recipe with you ever! If you like cheese, then this is going to quickly become one of your favorites too! My children even really enjoyed this dish and asked if we could add it to the regular dish lineup. This recipe came about because I am on a short little stint …
Easy Total Eclipse Cupcakes
On Monday, April 8, the sky’s most dramatic event occurs as the path of a total solar eclipse sweeps across the U.S. and the 2024 eclipse begins. For Southern AZ, the eclipse will begin around 10 am and peak at about 11 am. Where we live isn’t in the pathway of the total eclipse, but we will be able to …
Easy To Make Oven Baked or Air Fried Peach Empanadas
It was spring break this last week and as our luck generally goes, our family had muchisimo diseases festering; runny noses, coughs, ear infections, and pink eye. Kind of the works! So what can a mom trying to make things special do when things are less than ideal? She might bake. Or at least I do. :) I wanted to …
Skillet French Chicken
Two Christmases ago I gave my husband a cast iron skillet for Christmas, and guys, it has changed my family’s life! We use it all the time for cooking and love how easy it is to make delicious dishes. This week my husband crafted a delicious recipe that I want to share with all of you! This dish gives us …
Three Ingredient Strawberry Cookie
I love cookies! But even better are cookies that are so delightfully easy to make that you can’t believe just how easy they are. Today, I am excited to share this recipe for 3-ingredient strawberry cake mix cookies that are delicious and so incredibly easy that you will be able to enjoy them in under 20 minutes. Learn how …
Hello 2024! Inspirational Printables
Hello friends! Are you looking forward to 2024? Or are you hoping it just isn’t worse than last year? I found last year challenging, and even though I felt weak and incompetent for a large swath of it, I look back now and see that I took charge and made some changes that have put me in a better place. …
Grinch Sugar Cookie Bars
I love sugar cookie bars! This love for sugar cookie bars began a few Christmases ago when someone gifted our family a platter of them. It was love at first bite. Over the years I have shared all of my fun, experimental sugar cookie bars on my blog. If you would like to see all of the variations, here’s …
Winter Printable
Hi everyone! I am getting very excited about the kick-off of the holiday season next week. Do any of you have plans to put up your decorations? I am hoping to get mine up before the super busy time of the season kicks into full force, but we shall see…. On that note, today, I wanted to quickly pop in …
Easy Turkey Headband
Each year my daughter’s school does a turkey trot. It’s adorable and I love watching all the little bobbing turkeys run in various head accoutrements and other turkey wardrobing choices! We usually wait until the night before to pull something together for Liese’s “turkey wear”, but this year I decided that maybe we should start a little earlier. Especially, since …
The Easiest Monster Brownies Ever
You all know I love to find the hacks and shortcuts when it comes to cooking. I actually think it might be my superpower…. This weekend my family made dinner to take to a friend’s family, and we wanted to include a fun Halloween dessert. I was thinking about making brownies, but I wasn’t completely sure what to make until …
Key Lime Cookies
This week a wonderful friend dropped by with a big bag of fresh-picked-from-the-tree key limes! I was so excited! There might be a plethora of key lime posts for a bit as I cook and enjoy my way through them… I know you can make a traditional key lime pie, but I wanted to see what else I could make …
