How to Make Nanaimo Bars with Oatmeal Crust [Recipe]

Chocolate, Christmas, Cookies, Dessert, Food, Holidays, Recipes, Sweet

Today I want to show you guys how to make the best Nanaimo Bars with oatmeal crust. This is a less-sweet, totally delicious version of this classic Canadian dessert. This recipe has a crust packed with oatmeal, coconut, and nuts. It has a thin layer of sweet cream in the middle and a rich, thick chocolate […]

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Chocolate Hazelnut Thumbprint Cookies [Recipe]

Chocolate, Christmas, Cookies, Dessert, Food, Holidays, Recipes, Sweet

Chocolate hazelnut thumbprint cookies: the ultimate chocolate cookie treat! This recipe is perfect for the holiday season, or frankly– for any time of year that you just need a little more chocolate in your life. Some of you may know that I lived in Germany for 6 months. At one point while I was there, […]

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Easy 5-Ingredient Peach Cobbler Without a Cake Mix [Recipe]

Dessert, Food, Recipes, Sweet

Well everyone, it’s that time of year again and it’s time for me to show you all how to make this easy peach cobbler recipe from scratch. This is one of my favorite peach recipes to make during peach season: it is a melt-in-your-mouth delicious dessert, made with just five simple ingredients!  If you love […]

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The Best Homemade Creamy Mashed Potatoes [Recipe]

Christmas, Dinner, Food, Gluten Free, Holidays, Recipes, Savoury

I don’t know about you, but it seems like everyone in my family has their specialty when it comes to bringing food to family gatherings. Mine, it would seem, are making the best creamy mashed potatoes.  Maybe you’ve experienced this, maybe not – but there are few things more delicious than mashed potatoes done well, […]

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Copper Cookie Cutters


Christmas

//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js Once upon a shopping day, I was walking through the store, and then– *POOF!* –These beautiful copper cookie cutters (basically) jumped into my hands! Then… Out if nowhere… it was like there was music in the air.  Some kind of song that probably went like this: “Love, love love love love loooooove…  You know […]

November 7, 2013

Twix and Tea


Chocolate, Cookies, Food, Miscellaneous, Sweet

Do you ever find that when you go to type certain words, they always end up coming out wrong?  Example:  Twix.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve typed “Twixt” today.  It just happens, and it’s like I can’t stop it. :-/ Oh well.  If you find any “Twixts” in this post, you can […]

October 24, 2013

Austria [Part 2]


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Here is a highlight of every culture:  FOOD!  The first time my sister was in Austria, she came home with pictures of these AMAAAZING looking dumpling-esq morsels, and I was like,  “OH MY WORD!” And then when *I* went to Austria, I got to learn how to make those amazing, actually-named-something-dumpling-esq morsels, and I was […]

September 12, 2013

Austria [Part 1]


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On August 26, I had the privilege of going with my newly wed sister and her husband and 2 of my other sisters to Austria, to celebrate their marriage with all of the groom’s family, since some of them weren’t able to travel to Canada for the wedding.  It was a wonderful time.  We got […]

September 10, 2013

Dance, Art, Weddings, and Austria


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Okay, so despite my most hopeful dreams, updating with a new recipe this week hasn’t really been an option.  I ran out of time like the dickens!  And here, I will tell you, is why: Last week I had the opportunity, for the third year in a row, to volunteer at the Soli Deo Gloria Ballet annual […]

August 15, 2013

Liebster Award & A Bit About Me


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So guess what?  I was nominated by Rustic Honey for the Liebster award! This award, from what I could learn on Google, is just kind of an honorary award that gets passed from blogger to blogger, as if to say “Good job – Keep it up!” And so, I take a deep bow and say, […]

May 11, 2013

Chocolate Souffle Cakes [Project]


Chocolate, Food, Recipes, Sweet

  Souffle.  I have been wanting to make a souffle for a while, because A) It looks cool, and B) I’ve heard that it’s hard.  Actually, I think I got that impression from the old Audrey Hepburn movie, “Sabrina,” when she attends Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in France and learns to make a souffle.  […]

March 5, 2013