Month: November 2015

Spiced Apple & Oat Bread

Autumn in Minnesota is an incredibly beautiful time of the year. The colors, the smells, the crisp air…it leaves me in awe every year. It’s also a fantastic time to utilize the fresh apples that are bursting with flavor. One of my favorites is the Honeycrisp variety and we typically go through a dozen a …

Mojito Shortbread Cookies

There’s something about a mojito that takes me back to the pre-kids years and traveling with my hubby. Warm sandy beaches, a beautiful ocean kissing the horizon and sitting hand in hand sipping a mojito: these are a few of my favorite things. Call me fräulein Maria. These cookies are the confectionary equivalent of a …

Peach Oatmeal Muffins

I don’t know about you, but peach season makes this girl pretty happy. My family loves them too, and right now we go through about a dozen per week. Breakfast is a hard meal around here…it’s always hurried and quite frankly outside of bacon, my oldest daughter and I aren’t really breakfast food fans. So …

Cranberry Apple Sharlotka

I don’t have any Russian heritage, but there are many things I love about Russian cuisine. Sharlotka is one of them. {And vodka. I appreciate a good vodka as well.} Sweet, airy cake and fruit combine together so delicately yet so easily; what’s not to love?  This cake would be a lovely alternative to the …