Category «Bucket List Recipes»

Homemade Granola: The Ultimate Showdown

I know it’s almost impossible to believe, but I’m self-admittedly a pretty “boring” person. Let me explain. When it comes to what I eat, 90% of my diet is the same; day in, day out. While I love experimenting with new baked goods for the blog/business as well as new dinner options, like my life depends on …

Sweet Potato Crunch Bars: Move Over, Pumpkin!

I want to start off by clarifying something that may be become misunderstood when reading this blog: I love Pumpkin. Love. It. Yes, it’s even capitalized there because THAT’S how important it is to me. BUT, I also have to say for the record, that sometimes pumpkin needs to take a seat, and let his other …

Maple Pear Oatmeal Cookie Cups: Celebrating in Style

Happy National Oatmeal Day! That’s right. Today is a day to celebrate the fact that oatmeal is SO much more than that bland gooey mess your mom used to serve you for breakfast every morning. Or, that packet of oddly dehydrated flakes and “fruit” pieces found in the breakfast aisle (which, admittedly, I still have …

Puff Pastry, Four Ways: The Perfect Time for Convenience

A snapshot of a typical conversation Erin has with herself on any given day during the months of October through December: Erin 1: “MAN, I can’t WAIT to make that pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving! I’ve been waiting all year!” Erin 2: “Woohoo! But, don’t forget about the apple pie bars you need to make for Friendsgiving …

Cinnamon Apple Zucchini Bread: Attention Bake Sale Bakers Everywhere!

  Folks, if you’ve been keeping up (or, if you’ve been within a three foot radius of me in the past few weeks) you will know that I am a lover of all things Fall. Well, here’s another (not so secret) confession. Not only does Fall bring out the plaid-wearing, 20-something-year-old in me, but it …

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Donuts: It’s Only Right

This week’s post is pretty time appropriate folks. Why? Well, let me humbly brag for a quick second….I just successfully completed my second half marathon! And, I say “successfully”, because I had two goals in training for and competing in this event: show up and cross the finish line in any form possible (running, walking, crawling, rolling, …

Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies: Perfection, According to Science

I, like many other young females, spend entirely too much time browsing on Pinterest. Need a dinner idea? Pinterest. Need a lesson idea? Pinterest. Need to waste a few…hours…relaxing on a weekday evening when you should be sleeping? Pinterest. To be honest, I’m kind of in a love-hate relationship with the site. On one hand, …

Banana Bread Muffins, Four Ways: The Life of a Teacher in September

The recipes featured in this post kind of represent my life right now. All. Too. Perfectly. Close to the beginning of the school year, a teacher normally feels about a thousand emotions a day. Between the highs of a full twenty minute lunch break, and the lows of teaching math to students who are pretending they’ve …