Cozy Apple Cider Mimosa Bar for Fall Brunch
My fall brunch was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, I’d remembered to send the invites, bought the cute little pumpkins for … Read more
Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup (Kid-Approved One-Pot Meal!)
My kid had refused soup for as long as I could remember. Four years, maybe five. Every bowl I set in front of him was … Read more
Perfect Cozy Brown Sugar Apple Cider Cake Recipe
The woman at the farmers market watched me load my basket with apples for the third week in a row. She was arranging her cider … Read more
Easy Slow Cooker Apple Cider with Cinnamon Sticks – 50 chars
I was folding laundry last Tuesday when the smell hit me. Not from my kitchen — it was a candle at a neighbor’s house, carried … Read more
Lighter Crockpot Beef and Broccoli with Rice: Easy 30-Minute Recipe
Julie wasn’t making a big deal of it. I’d stopped by to drop off a casserole dish she’d left at my place months ago, and … Read more
Easy Pumpkin Roll with Cream Cheese Filling Recipe
This was supposed to be a simple pumpkin bread. I had the canned pumpkin, the warm spices, the whole plan mapped out in my head. … Read more
Best Salted Caramel Apple Crisp with Oat Crumble
There used to be a tiny restaurant called The Gilded Pear tucked into a converted garage in Portland’s Alberta Arts District that made a salted … Read more
The Best No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars (Kid-Approved)
I was at the hardware store, of all places, last October, picking up a new showerhead because the old one had finally given up the … Read more
Easy 15-Minute Lemon Garlic Butter Salmon
It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday, and I was staring into the fridge like it owed me money. The craving hit out of … Read more
Best Spiced Pumpkin Dump Cake with Pecan Streusel
My neighbor, a quiet woman named Clara who kept to herself most days, watched me wrestling a heavy bag of flour into my trunk at … Read more