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Easter Peeps Printables
When it comes to holiday candy, Easter candy is my ultimate weakness. Starburst jelly beans? Solid Cadbury eggs? Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs (where the ratio of peanut butter to chocolate is somehow...
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Classic Deviled Eggs
I was reading a food magazine on the plane this week and there was a feature about deviled eggs. They had recipes for deviled eggs with everything from salsa to crab to black beans in there and I...
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How to Create the Perfect Brunch Menu
Brunch is hands down my favorite meal and something about spring time and Mother’s Day makes me feel like it should be happening a lot. It’s also one of my go-to entertaining ideas when I host baby...
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Sparkling Citrus Punch
Valentine’s Day is coming up and if one of your traditions is serving your family a Valentine’s Day breakfast, this Sparkling Citrus Punch is an easy, festive drink. See, I used to always make...
View ArticleEasy Hand-Painted Easter Cookies
Easter Cookies! I always love the idea of decorating holiday cookies, but the reality is making different color frostings and making something that doesn’t look like a preschooler did it is sometimes...
View ArticleCarrot Cake Supreme
Carrot cake and Easter seem to go hand in hand. We have a great, easy carrot sheet cake in our first cookbook that we love, but this is the carrot cake for celebrations and also for murder by sugar....
View ArticleFavorite Easter Recipes
With Easter one week away, I’m sure many of you already have an idea of what you’ll be serving for dinner, many menus planned with tradition over the years! But if anyone is still swirling ideas...
View ArticleCreamy Stovetop Smashed Potatoes
Growing up, mashed potatoes were a big deal. My dad took (takes) his mashed potatoes very seriously. They were always made from scratch, from peeled russet potatoes, whipped with an electric mixer...
View ArticleChile Cheese Souffle Squares
This creamy, fluffy, flavorful breakfast casserole is made with basic ingredients and no bread. Chili Cheese Souffle Squares require no overnight sitting so this dish can be on the table in just about...
View ArticleSausage, Egg, & Cheese Croissant Breakfast Casserole
This sausage, egg, and cheese croissant breakfast casserole is a guaranteed hit that will become a family tradition! (Keep reading after the recipe card below.) Anyone else feel like a lifetime has...
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Egg Salad BLT’s
All of you who have hard-boiled eggs in your fridge from Easter, this one’s for you! This is what I call a grown-up egg salad sandwich. I used to love egg salad as a kid, but as I got older something...
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Dinosaur Eggs
A few months ago I was totally wasting time avoiding piles of laundry and dishes browsing Tastespotting for official food blog research purposes when my then 4 year old son walked into my office. He...
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{Easy} Spring Chick Cupcakes
Last winter when Kate posted her darling Candy Penguin Cupcakes, my favorite part were the cute little beaks. I started thinking about what other sorts of animals you could make with beaks like that...
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Tutorial: Quick and Easy Easter Wreath
So you may or may not have noticed that Sara does all the little crafty tutorials on our blog. That is because I am not crafty. When I was little, I took sewing classes and the teacher told me I was...
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How To: Make Blown Egg Ornaments
One of our most popular holiday posts is our tutorial on dying Easter eggs with pieces of silk. It’s a unique process that creates amazingly beautiful eggs and it’s always a shame when it’s time to...
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Easter Carrot Napkin Bundles
When I got engaged one of the first things I did was pick out my china. My Mom has a beautiful antique china cabinet displaying her heirloom dishes. It was always SO special to get to eat on those...
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Crispy Yukon Gold Latkes {Potato Pancakes}
I was so happy to get connected with a new blogging friend recently; Tori from The Shiksa in the Kitchen. Tori is a convert to Judaism and I loved reading her story; especially how her journey of...
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Silk-Dyed Eggs {aka TIE-Dyed!}
I posted this tutorial a few years ago and it has become somewhat of a tradition to bring it back every year! One of our family Easter traditions is dying eggs with pieces of silk. I saw a cute lady...
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What to do with Leftover Ham & Eggs
I mentioned in my last post that Easter completely sneaked up on me this year. I grabbed a big spiral cut ham at Costco on Friday because a) I love hams, especially on Easter, and b) We always end...
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Candy Carrots & Carrot Patch Cupcakes
If you’re new around here, one thing you should know about Kate and me is that we don’t do very many fancy things, but we love to find un-fancy ways to make it look like we do fancy things. Fake it...
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Egg Carton Printable with Easy Easter Cupcakes!
Several years ago I had to transport some mini cupcakes and found they slid all over the cookie sheet I had set them on. As I was grabbing something out of the fridge, I eyed a carton of eggs and it...
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How To: Fold Bunny Napkins
I grew up in the Seattle area, and one of the things I loved most about it (besides the damp rain, beautiful coast line, gorgeous mountains, and never-ending greenery) was the expansive mix of...
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Buttermilk Orange Donut Muffins
I think sometimes when I’m hosting parties or major family events, people are often kind of surprised when I don’t make all of my most favorite, very best recipes. I usually pick one or two things...
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Stuffed Strawberries
One of my favorite recipes in our first cookbook, one that my family and I have served at countless baby and bridal showers, brunches and meetings and parties, is our recipe for cream cheese-filled...
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Baked Eggs with Bacon, Spinach, & Goat Cheese
So, if you’ve read our blog for awhile, you know I have this thing with eggs. I hate them. But I can’t leave them alone. Kind of like those dysfunctional boyfriends that, had Facebook been around when...
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Easy Cream Cheese Mints
One of my very most favorite Christmas treats are cream cheese mints. And when I say “Christmas treats,” I really mean “any time treats.” But in my brain, these will always be Christmas mints (and...
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Orange and Brown Sugar-Glazed Ham
I have an obligatory relationship with turkey. Even though our turkey recipe is one of the most popular recipes on our site, it’s not my favorite recipe on the site. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the...
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Crispy Cheesy Potato Cups
The fact that this recipe title includes the words cheesy, crispy, and potatoes, should give you all the confidence you need to put every one of these ingredients on your grocery list, like, now....
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Challah Bread
The summer after my husband and I were married, we moved to Seattle to work with his family. He painted houses with his brothers and I worked at his dad’s deli in downtown Seattle, which is where I...
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How to Roast Whole Carrots
One of my earliest memories is hanging out in the side yard of the house I was born in with my mom and her pulling a carrot out of the ground. We washed it in the hose and I ate it right there and it...
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Russian Cream with Berries
Russian Cream. The first time I heard of this dessert, it sounded like an alcoholic beverage from a Bond movie. Turns out it is not even remotely alcoholic or overtly (or discretely) lascivious. It’s...
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Easy Egg Decorating
We have quite a few out-of-the-box egg decorating ideas (and when I say “we,” I mean Sara; let’s just say fancy egg decorating is kind of traditionally outside of my wheelhouse)–we have these dinosaur...
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Roasted Rainbow Carrots with Balsamic Glaze
Easter is literally right around the corner, and as you’re planning your delicious menus for this spring holiday, here’s an easy and elegant side dish! I’m featuring some of my favorite items from...
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Hawaiian Ham & Cheese Sliders (aka Party Sandwiches)
So you know how everywhere you look, there are Hawaiian Roll ham sandwiches, and people are like, “Ohhhhh my goooosh, these are amazing, where did this wonder come from?!” And the the whole time, I’m...
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Brazilian Carrot Cake
Brazilian Carrot Cake is completely different from our cinnamon-spiced, cream-cheese frosted versions here in the US. Many of you know I used to live in Brazil (doing missionary service work in my...
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Shaving Cream Dyed Easter Eggs
You know those holiday moms who are super into all the things? You know, the ones who have evidence of tiny leprechauns peeing in their toilets and the Elf on the Shelf doesn’t just come for...
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Cadbury Egg Cookies
I have a special love for Cadbury mini-eggs. They remind me of my Mom, who always let me buy the little single serving packs they had near the register at our neighborhood grocery store growing up. To...
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Broccoli Salad
I’ve never really been a big fan of traditional broccoli salad. I have this weird thing where I don’t like cheddar cheese in pre-dressed salads, especially ones with mayonnaise-based dressings. I also...
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Giant Chocolate Cadbury Egg Cookie
This cookie is a riff on our very popular Cadbury Egg Cookies; it’s been slightly modified to make one single GIANT cookie! This is an amazingly soft, chewy chocolate cookie that is studded with...
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Overnight Sausage and Egg Casserole
This easy overnight casserole is layered with bread, cheese, crumbled sausage and green chilis, and soaked in a seasoned egg custard overnight. It couldn’t be simpler to put together and the best...
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