Birthday Celebrations!
Our youngest son is turning seven today, which is so hard for us to believe! I know that everyone says this but it seriously feels like just yesterday that we were bringing him home from the hospital and adjusting to…
Share the Love (and a Brownie) on Valentine’s Day!
Tomorrow is the big <3 day and I like to make something special for the Valentines in my life. This year, I am sharing my recipe for Black Bean Brownies, which I made and cut into heart shapes for each…
Christmas Chocolate Bark
One of the holiday traditions in our family is to bake Christmas cookies together. Each December, we pull out our cookie recipes and pick out our favorites, gather and shop for the ingredients, turn up the Christmas music, and get…
Mexican Hot Chocolate Cake
When we have a family dinner or get-together, we all like to contribute something to the menu. My grandmother often volunteers to make or bring a dessert (she’s got quite a sweet tooth!). At one family dinner, she showed up…
Currant Pie
Several years ago, when Joe was really into learning about permaculture and increasing the productivity of our little woodland homestead, he purchased about 30 fruit trees and bushes from an online nursery to add to our landscaping. We spent…
Blueberry Cookies
As I’ve mentioned before, we love to eat blueberries in our family and so we try to pick as many as we can in the short summer blueberry season and freeze them to use throughout the year. We had…
Chili Chocolate Bark
I know this is a little late for Easter candy but homemade chocolate desserts really never go out of season, do they? Not in our house! I definitely have a sweet tooth and try to have at least one homemade…
Chocolate Macaroon No-Bake Cookies
Winter blues. I think we all get them. The long, dark nights. The cold temperatures. The snow and ice. At least that’s what happens here in the Northeast. Maybe if we lived in a tropical climate where the temperatures…