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Chocolate Chip Cherry Shortbread Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cherry Shortbread Cookies are melt-in-your mouth tender, absolutely delicious, and super easy to make! Don’t you just love a good cookie? I do. They’re inevitably the downfall of my post-holiday promise: every year I swear that I’m not touching my KitchenAid until spring. And every year I fail, […]

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My Top 12 Food Blog Favorites for Holiday Cooking

My favorite cooking, baking, and entertaining food blog sites for the best holiday eats, sweets and treats! We’re in the thick of holiday parties, cookie baking and entertaining season! So, what are you making/baking/hosting? Don’t know yet? Today I’m going to share my top 12 food sites for great ideas […]

bowl of creamed corn

Homestyle Skillet Creamed Corn

This is not your from-a-can creamed corn! Creamy, sweet and salty, with great texture, this skillet creamed corn is a great side dish for everything from weeknight chicken to a holiday roast. If you’re looking at your screen right now, all skeptical, I get you. I was never a fan […]

Pear Maple Upside Down Cake

Pear Maple Upside Down Cake

Pear Maple Upside Down Cake is a wonderful fall treat. Luscious fall pears and sweet maple syrup are the perfect combination to top this sweet cake with a hint of spice. There seems to be a debate about when it’s really fall. Of course there’s the date on the calendar, […]

Roasted Corn Mashed Potatoes

Roasted Corn Mashed Potatoes

Roasted Corn Mashed Potatoes! I get it, this one’s divisive. When it comes to mixing your corn and your mashed potatoes, the debate has gone on for decades. It’s good, I promise. This is corn and mashed potatoes for grown-ups. Of course creamy and buttery, or why bother? The nutty […]

Funnel Cake

Simple and Delicious Funnel Cake

Some days are better than others, folks. Some days are Funnel Cake Day!!! I have a deep and abiding love of funnel cake. As a kid, I counted the days until the annual fire department carnival, mostly because it was the nearest source of funnel cake. It’s my one must-hit, […]

Corn Dogs

Fun and Easy Corn Dogs at Home

Carnivals, state fairs, amusement parks, the boardwalk at the beach, all of the most fun places in a child’s world, and you can find corn dogs at every one of them! They’re a classic for a reason: they’re kid-friendly, easy to eat, and have the everything’s-more-fun-to-eat-on-a-stick factor going for them. […]

The Best Fried Apple Hand Pies

The Best Fried Apple Hand Pies

Apple pie is All-American comfort food at it’s best. Fried apple hand pies are all of that, in a portable, deep-fried package. For me, these little hand pies are a classic summer fair food and connected to all of the good, carefree memories I have of eating them, still warm, […]

Getting Ready for Baking Season

Software Edition Now that fall is here, it’s time to get ready to bake! I love this time of year. I love the sights, the smells, and very definitely the flavors of fall. Getting to the good part of fall baking is easier and a lot more fun if you […]

Are You Ready for Baking Season?

Hardware Edition You can feel the crisp in the air, see the leaves in their blaze of color, and taste the pumpkin spice in your latte. Autumn is all around you, and with it comes fall baking season, the happiest time of the year! No? Not the happiest time of […]