The winter weather left me feeling dilapidated and a bit despondent these past couple weeks. I felt myself shuffling around in a haze, not really knowing why I was feeling so low but not entirely sure how to snap out of it. So this...

I don’t know if it was all the health food I started eating after the holidays, or the pleasantly cool weather (which always make me want to bake), but I started craving these cookies like crazy about one week back. So, this weekend I...

First off, a happy New Year’s Eve to you all!! I wish you all the best in 2014 and hope your goodbye to 2013 is a splendid one. I had hoped to get this post up yesterday so it would be of more use...

I’ll keep this short and sweet since many of us are busy with friends and family in the midst of the holidays, but I just wanted to wish you a wonderful holiday season and thank you all for reading. I have a nice little...

Before I dive into this tasty spiced pear bundt cake with vanilla glaze, I wanted to share a little bit about my special day with you guys. If you just want the pear bundt cake recipe, though, go ahead and scroll to the bottom...

One of the things I miss most about Oregon is the light dusting of snow we’d get a couple times a year. I grew up in a valley there so the snowfall was always really mild, just an inch or two thick, but goodness...

A couple months ago I got a request on instagram to make some pumpkin ice cream after I’d posted a picture of Trader Joe’s seasonal frozen pumpkin delight (one of the many pumpkin-flavored seasonal items they carry in the fall, I always look forward...

A few weeks ago Jeremy and I were finally able to take a brief trip up to Napa valley. We’d been wanting to go for a few years now but the scheduling never seemed to work out until early last month when we found...

I have a sad secret to share, my friends. For a long, long time, I hated the taste of whisky. This was due to several bad experiences with it in my younger years, and afterwards just the smell made me feel all squeamish and...

Last Christmas my family was all together and we were catching up on what we’d been up to. My theio (uncle) Niko was telling us about the chantarelles he’d been foraging for in the fall, and said that if I was around next autumn...

I was recently prompted to write about why I cook, and it took me a good amount of introspection to answer that question. I love to cook for a lot of reasons, but I think what drives me to the kitchen most frequently is...

Nothing makes me feel quite at peace with the cool weather as much as curling up with a hot cup of tea and a good book. And when I threw a tea-flavored donut into the mix, the cold hardwood floor and icy faucet water...