Sugar

I am taking full advantage of this date to shove a last minute Halloween treat in your face. It’s ready in just a few minutes and only takes 4 ingredients. I love Halloween.

Is it just me or do the seasonal M & M’s taste better than the regular ones? I had to hoard these because for some reason all the fall M & M’s are sold out in August while it’s still 984 degrees here in NC (NOT fall). I found these Fall M & M’s sandwiched …

I spend a pretty good chunk of time each week responding to comments, reader questions, and emails. I think it’s really important! And I actually kind of panic when I’ve been busy, decide to check my email, and realize that a reader asked me a baking question like 6 hours ago. I picture someone standing …

There are two groups of people: the ones that like raisins and the ones that don’t I am in the pro-raisin camp. And therefore I definitely love chocolate covered raisins.

Yesterday I finally got all my outside Halloween decorations up. I was trying to be way early with it because I was ready for Halloween and fall like a whole entire month ago while the rest of the world was still at the beach. It is, without a doubt, my favorite!

I have this huge chalkboard in my kitchen– it takes up one whole wall. It’s where I scribble ingredients I’m out of, notes about my schedule, and my random lists of ideas for blog posts. At the top of the list of things to develop for a month now was “Brown Sugar Cupcakes with Pumpkin …

These cookies are basically the easiest cookies ever. I mean it. Also they boys took them to school in their lunchboxes a few days in a row and I am now being solicited by hoards of school children to pack their lunches.

I mentioned last week that we were going tubing over the holiday weekend but I never told you how that went. Let’s talk about tubing. Have you ever been?

I really don’t know what my problem is today… I think I have too much to do and not enough time to do it so I am basically just flitting all over the place getting nothing done. It’s awesommmmme. Not. I keep seeing those Lumosity commercials when I’m at the gym. You know the ones …

When I was little my mom worked at night. My dad was possibly THE WORST cook ever. He put microwave pancakes in the toaster (also… who needs microwave pancakes anyway?), tried to make us eat canned creamed corn, and was really proud of this pork chop + cream-of-soup concoction that basically tainted pork chops for …