This spiced pear bread is moist, flavorful, and delicious! Filled with homemade applesauce, walnuts (optional), and fresh pears, it is seriously the best quick bread recipe. (Note: Pictures and recipes updated in Sept 2020)...
It’s been an applecious week and I am so happy you guys love apples as much as I do!! Despite being the hardest week of my short blogging career, it was also the most...
I am so happy to see you guys are really enjoying apple week. It looks like I am not the only one who is obsessed with enjoying everything with apples, cinnamon, and caramel. This...
Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends! Hope you all had a great weekend. Thanks to Mr. Columbus, it’s a three-day weekend and it does not feel like Monday today. I’m going to keep this...
Do you know what I realized the other day? We are well into October and I’ve only shared two pumpkin recipes with you guys. Two! Talk about food blogger fail! I know you guys...
Hey guys! I hope you all had a great weekend. I had a super lazy weekend. One that was originally filled with lots of errands and apple baking plans at first but then the...
A sweet, spicy and sour ginger sauce brings terrific flavor to this easy weeknight beef stir fry! Yes, we are taking a brief break from sweets today and I am bringing you a savory...
An easy to make and perfectly spiced pumpkin bundt cake is topped with a sweet bourbon cream cheese frosting! It’s the perfect fall treat and holiday table spectacular. (Note: Pictures in the post...
A classic all-American apple pie recipe with a very buttery, flaky crust and a cinnamon-spiced homemade apple filling. Apples are in full force already here in Upstate NY and I have a classic apple...
When coconut meets zucchini, you get a wonderful combination in these Zucchini Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies. A great recipe to use up summer zucchini. Guys, I really wish I could tell you I am...
I have a small confession. For the longest time, I could not get myself to eat peanut butter in sweet situations. In Sierra Leone where I grew up, we use peanut butter to make...
Coconut almond cream cake is a coconut lover’s dream cake and the perfect Easter dessert recipe. Coconut cake is filled with almond cream filling, then topped with fluffy coconut cream cheese frosting! **This recipe...
Hey guys! I am very excited today to be doing a blog swap with Amy from Club Narwhal. Amy is a creative writer, a great photographer that loves to travel and enjoy great food....
Hey folks, I hope you had a great weekend! I was able to unplug from the interwebs and enjoyed a relaxing day at the lake with the husband on Saturday. And on Sunday I...
This post was originally posted in August 2013 but has been updated with new pictures in Aug 2020. Happy Friday friends! This week has been filled with cakes here on the blog and...
Happy Monday! It’s my birthday today, and I made myself a birthday cake! A Strawberry Lavender Cake, to be precise.
I recently realized not everyone knows what Blahnik in this blog’s title refers to. Silly me, I thought everyone knew what these beautiful things are! But, people keep asking “What’s a Blahnik?” So, I...
It’s the last day of July which means 1) it’s my birthday in 5 days and 2) summer is almost over and fall is close!!! Fall is my favorite season. I love the weather,...
Hey there, and welcome back, friends. You are in for a treat! These moist and delicious peanut butter blondies are made with Reese’s peanut butter chocolate chunks, brown butter, and chopped walnuts.
Hello friends!! I made pie crust again and filled it with cherries to make these scrumptious cherry hand pies 🙂 Remember how I said I was scared of making pie crusts? My first two...