Cranberries and cream danish made with (cheater’s) croissant dough are an impressive homemade breakfast treat! The sweet, tart, and creamy filling is perfect against the pastry’s buttery, flaky layers.
Cranberries and Cream Danish

It’s the final countdown!!!

I still have not finalized my cookie list, decided what I’m making on Christmas, or wrapped a single present but IT’S FINE because I’ve mastered homemade (cheater’s) croissant dough, so there’s that. 

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A hearty and spicy harissa bean stew with broccoli rabe makes for an easy and delicious one pot vegetarian dinner.
Spicy Harissa Bean Stew with Broccoli Rabe

Welcome, from the trenches of early pandemic 2020 cooking!

If you’re curled up in fetal position at just the mention of those horrific months – I get it, we all have a little bit of residual PTSD from that time in our lives.

However, there were a few good things to come out of all that staying at home (mostly recipes, if we’re being honest) and this soup is one of them! It’s healthy and hearty – the kind of feel good food I want to be eating all winter long.

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What To Cook This Week - 12-11-21

This week has some of my favorite comfort foods and casseroles!

I know the term casserole makes some people’s stomachs turn with memories of condensed cream of mushroom soup-filled recipes but I promise these all have REAL ingredients and are loaded up on veggies. Plus there is something really comforting about starting off the week with a pan of something delicious in your fridge.

Here’s what we’re cooking:

  • Starting off the week with roasted winter vegetable lasagna. This has a few components and takes a bit of time to put together, but it is the perfect weekend project. 
  • Next up – roasted chickpea banh mi salad! This is honestly one of my favorite salads of all time. The flavors are so spot on and you’ll find yourself craving it all week.
  • On Tuesday we’re making vegetable enchiladas with black beans, corn, and spinach! Adore these – so much flavor and, of course, CHEESE.
  • Roasted cauliflower and chickpea soup is a hearty (and healthy) comfort-full meal.
  • Finally, farro salad with roasted butternut squash, red onions, and brie. So much to love about this!
  • For dessert we’re making a cranberry orange bundt cake that tastes like the holiday season.

Happy eating!

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This hazelnut vanilla layer cake is a traditional Hungarian cake also known as Esterhazy Schnitten or Esterhazy Torte. It is incidentally gluten-free and filled with six layers of hazelnut meringue-based cake interspersed with a custardy vanilla buttercream.
Hazelnut Vanilla Layer Cake {Esterhazy Schnitten}

There are the times when all you can handle in life (and baking) is a batch of one-bowl brownies…

…and then there are those moments of insanity when you think YES I WILL TACKLE A SIX LAYER CAKE THAT WILL REQUIRE ME TO DIRTY EVERY BAKING APPLIANCE IN MY KITCHEN AND THEN SOME.

This cake is for the latter. 

(And it is so worth it.)

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Roasted butternut squash ravioli with sage brown butter and toasted pecans is an indulgent fall dish that is as perfect for weeknight eating as it is for special occasions!
Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter and Toasted Pecans

If there’s a meal that I will always always always order when I see it on a restaurant menu, it’s butternut squash ravioli with brown butter sauce.

Doesn’t matter the time of year, the time of day – I’m not picky.

Butternut ravioli for breakfast in the heat of summer? Done it. 10/10 would recommend.

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What To Cook This Week - 12-4-21

News! News! News!

We’re having a(nother) baby!! If you follow me on Instagram, you already know this but after casually alluding to it in another post this week and getting some surprised messages I realized I never mentioned it here. I blame it on pregnancy brain.

The baby is a BOY and due in April! I’m 20 weeks right now, so halfway through. We just had our anatomy scan this week and he is looking good with all of his vital organs (at least as much as we can see) where they should be. For that I am very grateful. We are all very excited, especially Remy!

If things have seemed a little slow here, now you know why. I had a fair amount of nausea in the first trimester (and still a few times a week even now), which has made dealing with food a bit difficult. We ate a lot of pasta with jarred sauce (sometimes multiple times a week) because I just couldn’t cook anything else. The sad truth is that this is pretty much Remy’s favorite food on earth so it’s very unclear why I’ve ever bothered to make anything else. KIDS – eternally humbling.

Let’s talk meal plans!

Here’s what we’re cooking:

  • Starting off the week with spinach, feta, and leek hand pies. These look so much more intimidating than they are, so don’t be scared. They have all the flavors of spanakopita in a fun shape. Love them.
  • Next up – brussels sprouts pasta with parmesan cream sauce. Comfort food at its best.
  • On Tuesday we’re warming up with some Indian-spiced paneer and bean chili! It’s a fun fusion meal that will warm you from the inside out.
  • Butternut squash and rosemary risotto to brighten up the middle of the week!
  • Finally, roasted sweet potato and caramelized onion pizza. YES.
  • For dessert we’re CLASSIC soft batch snickerdoodle cookies. Can’t go wrong with these babies!

Happy eating!

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