I'm continuing to (slowly) slosh my way through a backlog of posts, and this is one that I have been meaning to get up on the blog ...

My LO was supposed to be a Thanksgiving baby, due to arrive on November 21st. But he had very different plans. I actually went into labo...

I am waaaaaaay behind on the posts I had hoped to make. I still have an entire summer's worth of farm-share related blogs to get to, bu...

I. Love. Pumpkin. Pie. In fact, let’s be honest: I love pumpkin anything. But pumpkin pie is the very pinnacle of all pumpkin desserts as f...

T his year, I decided to add some desserts to my Thanksgiving repertoire, and after spying this eye-appealing recipe  on the Williams-Sonoma...

I love multiple iterations of a holiday. You know, when you celebrate the same holiday several times in a given season? Take Thanksgiving, ...

Zombies. Rotten reanimated corpses stumbling hither and thither in search of brains and other various human body parts on which to feed. I ...

Like my previous Halloween post on Quick Creepy Treats , this post and the few following it are not actual recipes, but ideas and direction...

This month's Daring Bakers Challenge (my first participation in a while) was extremely exciting for me: doughnuts! I've always want...

Mid-October begins the official pecan harvesting season, and they are ubiquitous in baking and cooking throughout Autumn. I adore pecan pi...

Hands down, my favorite flavor of the Fall is pumpkin -- pies, bars, cakes, soups, you name it, I love it. My Autumn baking season, roughly...

Now that October is here, I'll still be posting Autumn-themed stuff, obviously, but I also wanted to get started on some Halloween-theme...

I've never attempted a pumpkin cookie before, even though autumn is my favorite season, and nothing screams "Fall" more loud...

Chocolate chip cookies. Where would a cookie buffet be without them? Believe it or not, this was a new recipe. I normally make the good ol...

I decided to include a gluten-free selection in my shower’s cookie buffet, for one of my best friends and bridesmaids, Rachel, whose dietary...

C ake balls. Have you heard about these things? Up until a year ago, I hadn't. And then I spied this post on (where else?) Bakerella...

Because I had included Greek cookies in my cookie buffet, I figured it was only fair to include some Polish ones too -- the only problem was...

When I finally decided to do the cookie buffet for my bridal shower, I knew that I had to include some Greek cookies to honor my heritage. M...

I knew fairly early on that I wanted a sweets buffet as part of my bridal shower. Well-coordinated candy buffets have such a stunning effec...

As a scientist, I am very detail-oriented. I love details. Big details, little details, any minute way to tie together a theme: I'm ther...