Guest Blogger Series & Maple Cranberry Cornmeal Coffeecake

Happy holidays, friends! Just a quick post to let you know that yours truly is featured over at MJonesStyle! Marsha has been showcasing bloggers and their recipes in a special Kitchen Keeping series. Fun questions and photos of our kitchens, along with an exclusive recipe! My Maple Cranberry Cornmeal Coffee Cake, only…

Cran-Orange Pinwheels W/Smoked Turkey & Sriracha

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BetterWithCraisins #CollectiveBiasSometimes, you have no choice but to just throw all your favorite things into one recipe. Meat? Check. Cream cheese? Check. Cranberries? Check check. Add in a bit of citrus and the kick of…

Gluten Free Zucchini Spice Muffins

My sister is staying with us for awhile.  Did I mention that before? We get her as a house guest for a few months while she finishes settling into employment here on the East Coast.  We kind of love it and while there are always adjustments with long term visitors, most of…

Honey Peanut Cereal Bars

I have kids. Ere go, I have purchased an alarming number of boxes of little ‘0’ cereal made of oats, such as Cheerios or something similar.  Cereal that shows up in my couch cushions, on the bottom of my purse, and in my laundry.  This kind of cereal is always around so…

Carolina Cobb Salad

Well hello! For those of you who are noticing that this is the second salad recipe I have posted in a week, I would like to reply with, yes, I realize that too.  And I will not apologize for it, dang it!! You can never have too many fresh, flavor-filled salads in…

Winter Salad W/Cranberries & Feta

Just popping in quick to share one of my most favorite salads with you.  Yes, those are sugared almonds.  Yes, that is one of the reasons its my favorite.  So sue me. I like to call this my winter salad because it looks so fresh and crisp and clean and bright!  Like…

Cranberry-Orange Pumpkin Spice Muffins

I should warn you.  I will never have enough pumpkin recipes.  Muffins, quick breads, dip, pie, shakes-everything.  I.  Love.  Pumpkin. You will probably never find me with a pumpkin spiced latte as the sweetness level is a bit much for me, but other than that, I happily submit to all the pumpkin…

Holiday PUNCH!

A few weeks ago, my local Mom’s Group had our second annual Holiday Home Tour.  Five brave souls volunteered to open their homes to the whole group to serve treats, pour some drinks, and show off their Christmas decorations to a bunch of sleep deprived, exhausted local mommies. And it was fabulous….

Ruby Bars & Thanksgiving Inspiration

I call these bars Ruby Bars because if their color (obviously) and I will tell you that they are filled with a cranberry and apple butter sauce.  Intrigued?  I was too.  I am so excited to share this recipe with you, but before I do that, I have a quick little round-up…

Cranberry Maple Pudding Cake W/Cream Cheese Ice Cream

At the risk of posting a fall themed recipe in March, I decided to throw caution to the wind and share this with you anyway.  It has become one of my favorite deserts and with Easter coming up, the thought of finishing of a ham and cheesy potato dinner with this pudding…

Simple Fudge

Greetings!  Its almost Christmas!!  AH! If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you know that I recently finished testing a lot of fudge recipes.  If you follow me on the street you would probably be able to tell by the size of my hips that I have recently finished testing a…

White Chocolate Cranberry Swirl Cheesecake

Sometimes you see a picture of a dish and say to yourself “Self, I must make that.”  That was my exact thought when I saw a recipe for this cheesecake in a Cooking Club of America magazine.  This was several years ago and if I remember correctly, I made it twice that…

Homemade Granola Bars

At the end of April my youngest sister came to visit, meet her newest nephew, and run a half marathon.  Yeah, we like to test the physical endurance of our guests every now and then.  Look!  Aren’t they cute together? Nearly every spring since we moved to central IL my family, my husband, and sometimes…

Fruit & Nut Rum Balls

There might be some kind of rule that says I have to post lots of Christmas cookie recipes in December but I don’t really care.  I actually have so many cookie recipes I could post here (literally dozens and dozens) that I couldn’t choose between them and decided to share this recipe…

Maple Orange Cranberry Sauce

Yes.  I know that I have already posted two cranberry sauce recipes and am aware that this makes three.  It is actually kind of weird because cranberries are not even my favorite part of Thanksgiving!  However, while making two different kinds for dinner might be a bit much, when you do one savory,…