Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars
From my days as a mom of little kids, here’s a recipe for some fancy peanut butter bars. Make them for a lunchbox surprise or a special after school treat. They are not just for kids though, these are really…
Category: Fall
Butternut Squash : Little Pieces of Heaven
No one ever makes this recipe when I suggest it to them, EVER. The recipe is just so…odd. Mere mortals can’t put the ingredients together in their head and have any idea about how GOOD butternut squash tastes when…
Potatoes Baked in Cream
Did the name of the recipe entice you click on this?! Well then, that makes us friends forever! When my friends from Southern France were staying with us, they offered to make a side dish for dinner. They didn’t use a recipe. They…
Pumpkin-Chocolate Cake
This is the BEST cake to serve at this time of year (or any other time of the year, actually)! It’s a good chocolate cake – a very, very good chocolate cake; it’s moist, and nicely chocolate-y, and made richer with some pumpkin…
Pumpkin Spice Biscotti
It’s that time of year—let the fall baking commence! I’ve started with these Pumpkin Spice Latte Biscotti, my entry for my cookbook club’s ‘Pumpkin Dessert Showstopper Challenge‘ last year—sometimes we act like we are contestants on the mythical ‘Great American…
Chicken Pot Pie
This is a pretty simple Chicken Pot Pie. Absolute comfort food! No spices other than salt and pepper, so the true taste of sauteed chicken and fresh veggies shine whilst snuggled up in a smooth gravy and encased in pastry. Yummmm!…
Sandwich City Apple Brie Panini
Photo Credit: Hannah Lineberry Bentz My daughter, Hannah, learned how to make this sandwich during her college days when she worked at a small cafe in Sand City, California—population 328, as of 2022, and nestled somewhere between Monterey and Seaside.…
Sweet and Cinnamon-y Apple Bread
Bread baking is my Everest—meaning I haven’t conquered it yet! I’m not even at base camp so the bread recipes that appeal to me are easy and pretty much foolproof 🙂 Here’s one of my favorites! The recipe is so…