orange zest

This sweet potato waffles recipe makes perfectly crisp, healthy waffles, and tops them off with an amazing sweet and tangy pomegranate syrup. You’ve got to try it to believe it!

If you’re looking for autumn in a bowl, this butternut squash soup recipe is just for you. We’ve brought it up from the archives, with a few updates, and I just have to share that my husband now happily eats squash and even lets me…

This sweet potato casserole recipe was originally posted in 2012. I’ve updated it slightly and brought it up from the archives to share with you, because it’s one of our favorite Thanksgiving side dish recipes. I used to think I hated sweet potatoes.  I’d try…

I actually wrote this post last year, but never got the recipe typed up from my notes. It’s like I was super pregnant or something! With the cherry trees in my yard just transitioning from blossom to little green fruit, I thought it was the…

On Saturday, my mom went to a light and tree festival.  She said that looking at it from an outsider’s perspective, you would think that Christmas is all about toys and alcohol, at based on all the decorations and gifts at the festival.  While alcohol…

One of my favorite holiday dishes is homemade cranberry sauce.  But fresh cranberries can be really expensive!  Sometimes I find great deals on them around Thanksgiving, but this year I was hit with a stroke of genius that will allow me to enjoy cranberry sauce…

This homemade orange chocolate pudding recipe takes your romantic dessert from classic to classy, with the addition of vanilla bean and orange zest. We don’t eat a lot of dessert at home, but on Valentine’s Day we always want a special chocolate dessert.  We love…

I’ve been on a baking kick lately, which is rather surprising since I consider myself a cook, not a baker.  But I’ve had the flavors of vanilla and orange kicking around in the back of my mind for weeks, and decided that the best way…