Month: December 2021

Chicken and Vegetable Peanut Noodles

Chicken and Vegetable Peanut Noodles

Crisp vegetables with pulled rotisserie chicken, scallions, dry roasted peanuts and lots of creamy umami peanut sauce. This dish is really easy to put together and a great way to use up extra vegetables in the fridge. I like the combination of the fresh vegetables 

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

Classics are sometimes always the best, aren’t they?! These are some of the first cookies I learned to bake when I was a kid and they have been around ever since. Santa would definitely approve! Put a plate of these out on Christmas Eve and 

Lemon Raspberry Trifle

Lemon Raspberry Trifle

This beauty came out of a little mistake. Don’t some of the best ones happen that way!? I was making an angel food cake for Finley’s birthday and sprayed the pan, not thinking about it and when I went to invert the pan after baking, 

Pepperoni alla Vodka Calzones

Pepperoni alla Vodka Calzones

We do pizza at least once a week for dinner around here, and I wanted to switch it up this week and do calzones. They are so much fun, like little personal hand held pizzas. Kids will love to help make them too. The sauce 

Zucchini Carpaccio

Zucchini Carpaccio

When the holidays hit it’s all about the sugar and carbs and pure delicious comfort food, but sometimes you need to lighten it up. I had a salad like this in Charleston and I had to make it at home. Its so light and delicious 

Orange Cinnamon Rolls

Orange Cinnamon Rolls

Orange cinnamon rolls! These remind me of childhood back home. My dad would always buy these orange cinnamon rolls and we would roll them out and bake them on Sunday mornings. I would just eat the orange glaze by the spoonful it was the best. 

Crispy Smashed Potatoes with Herb Salsa Verde and Feta

Crispy Smashed Potatoes with Herb Salsa Verde and Feta

I love this side so much! It’s one of my favorite ways to do potatoes! They are boiled in salt water and then spread evenly onto a sheet pan and then gently smashed down. A Drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper to help them