Do you ever feel like your life has gone a bit vanilla? I mean, I love vanilla, don’t get me wrong, but especially after a long winter I feel like things have been vanilla for far too long. I’m ready to add some spice!
Category Archives: Breakfast
Spoilers {Recipe: Baked Chocolate Cake Doughnuts}
Here’s our favorite Homemade Baked Chocolate Cake Doughnuts recipe! Skip the trip to the doughnut shop and make amazing baked doughnuts right at home! You won’t find any spoilers in this post… just wanted to let you know that ahead of time! Let me start by telling you, I was late to the Downton Abbey…
I Caved {Recipe: Biscoff Glaze for Homemade Baked Doughnuts}
I remember a time in my life when I didn’t care for doughnuts. I was in college, and apparently I had the ability to turn off some little switch that kept me from liking things that were not so great for you. You know that switch? The one that seems to take over when you…
When Breakfast Saves Dinner {Recipe: Simple Spinach Quiche}
When someone asks me what my favorite tip is to simplify mealtime, besides menu planning, my answer would be to let breakfast save dinner. Breakfast saves dinner around our house quite often. In fact, even though I’ve been trying my hardest to stick to a weekly menu plan, there are times in our real…
Morning Chaos {Recipe: Breakfast Cookies}
Mornings around our house are usually mass chaos. No matter what I do to try to be organized the night before, mornings don’t seem to change. In fact, we have a little celebration in the car on the way to school on those rare days where I didn’t have to turn into “raging maniac mom”…
Gingerbread Coffee Cake with Ginger Cream
This giveaway is now closed! Thanks for participating! Holiday baking done? Check. Wait, no check? You too? What are we doing, with less than a week until Christmas and the baking frenzy hasn’t even begun? Yeah, I don’t really know either, but I just haven’t felt that Christmas spirit push to spend all day in…
Secrets to the Perfect Omelet {Gourmet Garden Giveaway!}
I have never been able to make good omelets. Even with the perfect omelet pan, I still couldn’t get omelets to turn out right. My omelets wouldn’t get done in the middle or they’d fall apart when I’d try to fold them over. They were never good, so I stopped making them, even though I…
When No One’s Watching {Recipe: French Toast Monkey Bread}
There are things I do when no one is watching that I’m not so proud of. Today, I took a giant swig of my coffee creamer.. by itself… WITHOUT the coffee. I couldn’t help it though. Have you tasted the International Delights Cold Stone Creamery Sweet Cream coffee creamer? Holy cow, that stuff is good….
A Breakfast Solution {Recipe: Sausage and Cheese on Homemade English Muffins}
I have a confession to make. I Love, with a capital L, Sausage Cheese McMuffins from McDonald’s. I blame it on Leah. This love began when I was pregnant with her. I couldn’t stomach meat of any kind, but for some reason craved Sausage Cheese McMuffins like they were going out of style. It was…
Back to School Comfort Giveaway
OK parents… it’s back to school time and I know some of you are celebrating. I happen to be a little weepy. Leah starts preschool this year, Ella will be in 1st grade full time (Kindergarten was just half days), Kelly is headed into 3rd grade, and Jacob is beginning his last year of elementary…

















