If you ever wander into my kitchen before 9am, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll catch me prepping a breakfast sweet potato. I started making these after a particularly disastrous attempt at making pancakes with way too many substitutions (don’t try using salsa instead of eggs—just don’t). Sweet potatoes, though? Reliable. My kids call them …
Alright, Picture This: Meatballs with Melty Cheese Inside You know those dinners that sneak up on you, like, wow, did I just become everyone’s favorite chef tonight? This is that dish. I remember the first time I tried to stuff cheese inside meatballs—half the cheese melted straight onto my baking tray. Classic me. But hey, …
The Easiest, Dreamiest Vanilla Milkshake (With a Few Tangents) You know, every time I make a vanilla milkshake the smell of vanilla instantly tosses me right back to summers at my gran’s house—yelling at my brother for slurping his shake too loudly while cartoons blared in the background. It’s funny, I used to think milkshakes …
The Carrot Cake Bites That Outshine Big Cakes (I Swear!) Alrighty friend, let me get straight to it: whenever it’s spring (or honestly, whenever I just need a little comfort), I end up making these mini Carrot Cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. My mum used to bake the full version for Easter every year, …
If you ever wanted a dessert that looks fancy but is ridiculously forgiving… Okay, so here’s the story: I was elbow-deep in flour one rainy Saturday trying to impress my cousin who’s basically a Bake Off fanatic. And what do you know? I come up with these Puff Pastry Berry Hearts—mainly because it’s what I …
Let Me Tell You About This One Pot Wonder Alright, so gather round for my confession: I first tried cooking One Pot Chili Cheese Pasta in a moment of kitchen desperation (we’re talking that time after a long day when I realized I’d promised “something cozy” for dinner but hadn’t planned a thing—thanks a lot, …
So, Let Me Tell You How I Fell for No-Bake Peanut Butter Honestly, no-bake peanut butter snacks are one of those little lifesavers I stumbled on during a really wild work week (read: five deadlines, zero clean shirts). My oldest forgot about snack duty for school, of course, so we needed something fast — and …