Category Archives: in the kitchen Now that spring is finally here, we have been spending lots of time outside playing. Fresh air feels so good after being stuck inside for months. My littlest one is home from school at lunchtime, so we have been soaking up our last afternoons together before he goes to kindergarten next year. Short, easy, crafts…  What do you do when you have an almost full bag of Rolos that you need to use up? You make brownies and stud them with Rolos. And people will thank you for it, I guarantee. This bronwie recipe is my go-to brownie recipe these days. I like that it is super easy to make,…  I have a problem. I drink an obscene amount of Diet Coke. I should say that I used to have a problem. These days, I have dramatically lowered that amount of soda that I drink and have replaced it with water. I am not going to lie, the first day was hard. But the second…  My children love St. Patrick’s Day. They like to build leprechaun traps and eat green foods. We like to make Rainbow Cupcakes, and it would not be the same without Irish Potatoes. I was found these adorable paper straws at Target the other day and knew that I needed to make green milkshakes to go…  This week I’ve been a woman on a mission: to make the best microwave mug cake known to woman. So far I’ve failed. Which only gives me a really good excuse to keep trying…and to keep eating microwave mug cakes. Which means I plan to continue my failure for quite some time. Did you…  Sitting here at my kitchen table, looking out the window, I am waiting for the snowfall to begin. The weatherman is throwing out phrases like ‘feet of snow’ and ‘blowing and drifting’. School has been cancelled and the pantry is stocked. My boys are planning snow forts and sledding. I am planning hot chocolate. There…  With Valentine’s Day this week, I figured that we all needed a little chocolate in our lives. Don’t you agree? This quick and easy brownie is just that, quick and easy. So easy in fact, that the other night, I was in a really grumpy mood and I whipped these up while I was finishing… 
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