Binge, bender, jag - I get on these kicks, these I-can't-stop-obsessing-on-this-thing kicks. For instance, we ate this salad once a ...

Brace yourselves friends, I'm going to talk about breast feeding again . Just over three years ago I shared my choice to stop bre...

I never forgot about the cake I promised back in September . And here we are in mid-December, with days until Christmas and I'm no...

There will be cake. It may take me a few weeks to share the recipe with you, but I promise there will be cake. Consider these your warm...

I read about motherhood a lot . Not just because its relevant to me, but because I find modern motherhood to be particular enthralling....

I've started and stopped this post 76 times in the last 4 weeks. I wanted to share where I was, why I was away, and that I would be b...

Let's pretend that Thanksgiving isn't a week away and that we've made menu plans and picked up a turkey. Forget all that. Le...

Cookies are like the poor middle child of the dessert world; Not nearly as elegant and grand as a layer cake, or cute and charming l...

Dear Lovely Neighbor:    So sorry for the other night when my husband had a five-ton truck stuck in your driveway. Thank you for parki...

*Cora is the Winner of the Breakfast for Dinner giveaway from last  week! Congrats Cora, I'll be sending you an e-mail shortly . * ...

It is officially baking season! Yes, I believe there is a season for butter and sugar. Strawberries and tomatoes get their season in the ...

So we already know that I'm kind of obsessed with vanilla as evidenced by the fact that I once wrote a haiku about it . Vanilla bean...

Let's agree on two things: if it is not fried dough, call it a donut, not a doughnut and this motherhood thing is not for the f...

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas at our house. The lights are hung, the tree is decorated, and my Christmas gift crafting is w...

I had a panic attack on the first flight. "I should have packed my cake decorating stand," I thought. I ran down the list again,...

This week last year, I was in Portland, Oregon for the IACP conference. We stayed at the Ace Hotel there which has a Stumptown Coffee R...

I make Hummingbird Cake once a year. I'd never heard of it until I was asked to make it for a colleague's birthday about a yea...

No, I am not!  But the adaptation of a Buckeye recipe to pretzel-stuffed-chocolate- covered-peanut-butter-balls could only have come f...

Inevitably, you will have brown bananas. Ugly, spotty, squishy bananas. You are not even particularly fond of bananas and yet, here there ...

I am a fan of Fridays (hello, weekend!), of chocolate, of beer, of rom-coms and snuggling. I also love puppies, especially squishy ones ea...