The earliest I’ve ever finished holiday cooking
Two days before Thanksgiving and I’ve finished cooking, mostly! I’ve been preparing our Thanksgiving feast since I was 12 years old and this the earliest I’ve ever been ready. Our […]
Fresh granola batch
Today’s #OneGoodThing with Mama was a fresh batch of homemade granola! Many thanks to More Diane for the recipe, which I slightly modified based on what was in our pantry! […]
Homemade cardamom plumsicles
In our quest to use up the bounty of plums from our tree, I decided to try something new—popsicles! Though I read several recipes for popsicles online, ours were a […]
A personal best… in jam
Making plum jam is now an annual tradition in our home, thanks to the bountiful Santa Rosa Plum tree in our backyard. I experimented with a new technique to prepare […]
New plum jam process
Once our plum tree ripens each year, we scramble to make good use of the bounty before it goes bad. And since there are only so many plums our neighbors […]
Our first Air Fryer experiment
Mama and I had been considering an Air Fryer for our kitchen but didn’t want to give up limited space for another appliance. Then we learned about the Instant Pot […]
Nadiya’s Time to Eat
Mama and I just discovered Nadiya’s Time to Eat on Netflix and we’re obsessed! We loved watching Nadiya on The Great British Baking Show and we even followed her as […]
Growing produce from scraps
Like many others sheltering-in-place at home, we’re eating up all of our fresh produce and starting to run low. Our solution was to grow more! We had three green onions […]
Fresh purple sage sauce
I bought butternut squash ravioli with the idea to make a sage-infused browned butter sauce for it. After a freshly snipped sage sniff test, Mama and I decided to use […]
Giant peach dumplings
Today’s #OneGoodThing was enjoying these giant fresh peach dumplings in cognac sauce with Mama! I used a recipe from the first Smitten Kitchen cookbook, except I swapped out Bourbon for […]
