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Ultimate Thanksgiving Prep Guide: Turkey Tips and Tricks

Hey foodies! We’re just TWO days away from Thanksgiving! Are you ready? Today’s the perfect day to get to the grocery store and pick up all your produce and any other last minute things you might need. Do you have enough butter? Olive oil? Don’t forget to get a bundle of fresh herbs and plenty…

Red Beet Flour Tortillas

Hey Foodies! Welcome back and I hope you’re having a great week. I wanted to take a little break from Thanksgiving stuff today and talk about something a little more fun, these gorgeous purple tortillas. I just thought with all the stress of the upcoming holiday season, it would be nice to do something a…

Thanksgiving Roast Duck Menu

Hey foodies! With nine days to go til Thanksgiving, I thought it would be a good time to cover another menu option. Yesterday I posted a traditional menu, today I want to talk about a more contemporary menu consisting of roast duck and lots of vegetables. This is a great menu for smaller get-togethers; duck doesn’t…

Ultimate Thanksgiving Prep Guide: Menu Idea

Hello Foodies! It’s officially the third week of November and 11 days from Thanksgiving. How are you doing? Feeling ready to impress? Or maybe a little overwhelmed. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, take a step back and brainstorm how you could make this a little easier on yourself. That’s what this guide is all about, making…

Caramel Walnut Rolls

Hey foodies! I hope you’re having a great week and enjoying the start of the holiday season. To me, the Holidays are a time for warm flavors like vanilla bean, roasted apples, pumpkin and of course caramel. The flavors that can be used in both sweet and savory. Comfort foods. The holiday season also means…

Your Ultimate Guide to Thanksgiving

Hey Foodies! It’s officially November and you know what that means! Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Every year, Thanksgiving seems to sneak up on me and I find myself completely unprepared and stressed out. But not this year. This year you and I are going to be fully prepared from turkey to table settings….

Rosemary + Grapefruit Gin Fizz

Happy November Foodies! Can you believe it’s already November? To me, that means it’s officially the holiday season (the best time of year). Have you started your Thanksgiving prep? If not, don’t worry, starting this week I’ll be posting a weekly guide so you and I can be fully prepared and ready to impress this…

Cocktail Hour: October Favs

Happy Halloween, Foodies! Welcome to my first Cocktail Hour! This is something I’ve been wanting to start for a while. A weekly conversational piece to discuss both food and life in general, outside of my recipe posts. Each week I’m going to pick a topic to write about from either my personal list of ideas…

Butternut Squash Soup with Brown Butter Apples + Savory Granola

Hey Foodies! You ever have one of those days? You know the spilled coffee all over your favorite shirt, found out your computer charger is broken, can’t find a quiet place to work (even though you’re at a library???), and now it’s 1 PM and you haven’t accomplished anything, kind of day? Yeah, me too….

Caramel Stuffed Dark Chocolate Cookies+ Orange Zest Sugar

Hey Foodies! Hope you all had a spook-tastic Halloweekend and you’re not too candied out. We’ve got a long holiday season ahead of us and that means sweets on sweets on sweets. We should really be thinking of Halloween as the kick off to sugar season. You have to start building up your sugar tolerance…