• Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Chocolate chip cookies are one of my absolute favorite cookies on the planet. I use my go-to recipe about once a month (sometimes more often) and it always produces a classic, soft and chewy winner. Today on this rainy, dreary Saturday afternoon, I decided to make another batch. Except that…

  • Almond Lime Snowball Cookies

    Growing up, the women on my dad’s side always got together to make Christmas cookies. It was a day full of sugar cookies with powdered sugar icing, pinwheels, mini chocolate chip cookies and powdered sugar covered snowball cookies, all beautifully arranged in Christmas-themed cookie tins. We made the same four kinds…

  • Holiday Chocolate Sugar Cookies

    This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Pompeian Grapeseed Oil Spray for yummy holiday chocolate sugar cookies. It’s time to start thinking about holiday baking, right? Thanksgiving is next week (GAH!), and yet I feel like school just started, summer just ended and the leaves just…

  • Blueberry Crumble Bars

    These blueberry crumble bars are like a dessert masquerading as a breakfast. How bad can that be? (As Ina would say…) This year school starts a week earlier than normal in our county. Next Monday, to be exact: August 19. Does that seem early to you? It did to us. I…

  • Two Bite Oatmeal Raisin Pecan Cookies

    If you’ve just stumbled upon my blog you might think that I’m the baker-type of foodie. Couldn’t be further from the truth. While I do dabble in a slight bit of baking, it’s definitely not my strong suit and my recipes often include the words “simple” or “rustic” to hide…