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Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère

October 17, 2014 By Katrina

Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère

This time of year is so, so hectic (though we probably always feel like our lives are crazy busy, right?). When I think of an easy fall dinner, I often base its viability on a simple pre-trick-or-treating test. Basically, is it something that could be easily made and quickly served to a family (friends included!)…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Easy Weeknight Dinners, Fresh from the oven, Meat/Eggs, Pizza/Sandwiches Tagged With: appetizers, autumn, baking, brunch, cheese, dinner, easy recipes, fall, fall recipes, food, Gruyere, ham, ham and cheese, ham and Gruyere in puff pastry, lunch, puff pastry, recipes, side dishes, weeknight meal

For the Pinteresty time of year: Applesauce spice cake

September 29, 2014 By Katrina

For the Pinteresty time of year: Applesauce spice cake

Like any other self-respecting, seasonally driven Pinterester, I’ve spent the better part of the past month searching the interwebs for fall-filled recipes and holiday décor ideas. There were the pumpkin spice latte copycat recipes, the “12 ways to decorate with gourds” kind of posts and plenty of outfits involving riding boots and scarves. And I…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Most Popular, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: apple bundt cake, apple cake, apples, applesauce, applesauce cake, autumn, baking, breakfast, brunch, bundt, bundt cake, cake, dessert, fall, fall recipes, food, Food52, fresh from the oven, Merrill Stubbs, spice cake

Tarts are for dreamers: Blueberry nectarine tarts

September 16, 2014 By Katrina

Tarts are for dreamers: Blueberry nectarine tarts

I think most people, buried in the to-do lists of their day-to-day lives, probably have some sort of pipe dream, an “I’ll do this someday when life slows down and the timing is right” sort of thing, that they keep coming back to when day jobs get too busy, overwhelming or stressful, and they just…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pies/Tarts Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, baking, blueberries, blueberry tart, breakfast, brunch, dessert, food, Food52, fresh from the oven, fruit, fruit tart, nectarine, nectarine tart, peach, peach tart, recipes, summer, tarts

Top 5 strawberry recipes for summer

July 3, 2014 By Katrina

Top 5 strawberry recipes for summer

We eat strawberries nearly every day of the year in our house because Beany and I can’t get enough of them, but summer strawberries are by far the best of the bunch. They are amazingly juicy, amazingly sweet and amazingly not $5 a quart right now. So strike while those fields are hot! In honor…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, dessert, food, Fourth of July, fresh from the oven, recipes, strawberries, strawberry jam, strawberry muffins, strawberry sorbet, strawberry tart, summer

Simple moments: Angel food cake with strawberries and cream

June 28, 2014 By Katrina

Simple moments: Angel food cake with strawberries and cream

Days start at about 5 in the morning here, and from then until bedtime, it feels pretty nonstop. There’s breakfast to make, a toddler to entertain, a baby to change and a puppy to feed — all before 7 a.m. I know this isn’t unusual for parents with young kids. Or any kids for that…

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Filed Under: Baby bliss, Fresh from the oven, Life, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: angel food cake, Baby bliss, baking, family, food, fresh from the oven, kids, life, parenting, strawberries

Sundays and sunshine: Lemon donut muffins

May 5, 2014 By Katrina

Sundays and sunshine: Lemon donut muffins

I always forget how much I love spring until it comes back again. The weather here has been amazing lately, and we’ve been soaking up some serious outside time (hence my frequent sneezes and ridiculously itchy eyes. Oh, allergies, you rascals!). I’m convinced that few things are better for a kid — particularly a high-energy…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Fresh from the oven, Most Popular, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brunch, dessert, donut, donut muffins, food, fresh from the oven, lemon

The world according to Beany: Chocolate banana muffins

May 1, 2014 By Katrina

The world according to Beany: Chocolate banana muffins

Anyone who lives with a 2-year-old knows that they are incredibly adept at rattling off every last detail they know about any little thing at any given moment of the day. This makes for wonderful bedtime distractions: “Goodnight, Beany.” “Mama, wait! Water! Bunny! Books! My wall! An elephant! It’s dark! More water! Please, Mama! Dada?…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: baking, banana, breakfast, brunch, chocolate, chocolate banana muffins, dessert, food, fresh from the oven, life, muffins, parenting, toddlers

Happy Easter! Lemon Ginger Bundt Cake

April 20, 2014 By Katrina

Happy Easter! Lemon Ginger Bundt Cake

Happy Easter! This post is popping up a little later than planned, but I suppose that’s life with a newborn and a toddler in the house. And a puppy. Yep, that puppy is wild, too. In case any of you are still on the lookout for an Easter-ready dessert (or a feels-like-spring dessert for that…

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Filed Under: Baby bliss, Fresh from the oven, Life, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: Baby bliss, baking, bundt cake, dessert, Easter, egg hunt, food, fresh from the oven, ginger, lemon, lemon ginger bundt cake, life, Martha Stewart, recipes

Sweets in the snow: Cocoa brownies with sea salt

February 5, 2014 By Katrina

Sweets in the snow: Cocoa brownies with sea salt

We’re knee-deep in snow here in Boston today (or full-body deep as far as our chilly little poodle is concerned), and I’m happy to report that we’re finally getting a taste of the East Coast winters we’ve heard so much about since moving here last summer. Woo hoo! There are few things I love more…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, brownies, chocolate, cocoa, cocoa brownies, dessert, food, sea salt, snow day, Valentine's Day

Beany vs. the Boxed Cookie: A Quest for Homemade Fig Newtons

January 24, 2014 By Katrina

Beany vs. the Boxed Cookie: A Quest for Homemade Fig Newtons

Anyone who’s a parent will probably tell you that, despite all of the times and all of the ways that they feel they’re falling a bit shy of the mark, there are at least a few parenting-related things that they feel pretty good about. It’s been true for us. Yes, we cave to demands for…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, cookies, dessert, fig, fig newtons, food, Food 52, homemade fig newtons, parenting, recipes, toddler

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