I needed a brain break last week. I wanted to be creative and I also wanted some pumpkin pie. I feel like pumpkin pie is similar to candy corn. You either love it or it’s garbage. I could eat candy corn by the fist full and I would argue that a good pumpkin pie might…
In The Kitchen
Homemade Pumpkin Spice Marshmallow Recipe
Making marshmallows is a combination of art and science. It’s about time, speed, temperature and setting. I have been working on perfecting my marshmallows and these in the future I’m going to work on getting them a little more fluffier. Homemade marshmallows by nature are a little more dense (and sticky) but so so delicious…
White Chocolate Bread Pudding
My mom and grandma make the best bread pudding and one of them usually makes it every Thanksgiving and Christmas and while some would call it a dessert….we Hoppens call it a side dish. Saturday was a cool crisp fall morning and the first one of the season and we had every intention of venturing…
Simple Fall Apple Cider Cheese Fondue
The mornings and evenings are getting chillier and chillier around here and when that happens my brain immediately goes COMFORT FOOD. Joe said a few days ago remember when we could travel and we had that awesome fondue in Switzerland? Random.. it was like five years ago. But yea I never forget a good pot…
Pumpkin Muffins with Nutmeg and Brown Butter Crumble
I don’t know if it was my son driving his paw patrol through the bowl of flour or what but these muffins are some of the best pumpkin muffins i’ve ever made. I know, I know I say that about all the muffins I make.. (see blueberry muffins here) but i’m not joking around. They…
Pretty Kitchen Finds for Under Thirty Dollars
It all started with a ceramic egg holder that popped up in my my Instagram feed before I fell into a rabbit hole of all the cute kitchen goods on the internet right now. Most shopping experiences lately have been lack luster and I find myself still roaming online during my free time. I have…
Pumpkin Focaccia Bread with Spicy Cheddar Topping
I read the other day that there could potentially be a pumpkin puree shortage this year. I shouldn’t be surprised it is 2020 after all. Maybe this is the time in my life when I teach myself to whip up my own pumpkin puree? hmmmm I smell a weekend activity. An activity… Kind of like…
Marinated Dehydrate Tomato Recipe
I’ve mentioned a million times how many tomatoes I have but I feel we are finally coming to the end. I have made ketchup, marinated them with toasty bread, made sauces and salsa galore. Last on my list is Canadian ketchup (new recipe) but any stragglers are going to be made into these marinated dehydrated…
Homemade Tomato Ketchup Recipe
Allow me a moment to share the saga of this ketchup. I had this post and recipe all typed up and ready to go last week and when I hit “publish” it was gone. Disappeared and nowhere to be found. I needed to take a step back from my rage and disbelief and now here…
Marinated Tomatoes with Goat Cheese
I will always remember the night that Joe and I spent in Italy under the starts of an old patio with 4 other strangers and a chef enjoying hot bread and pasta that we had just prepared all together from our cooking class. It was one of those nights you see in a movie. Laughing…
Zucchini and Onion Dip
Do you know what I have included in part of my last meal? French onion dip and baked lays. Do you know what I have an abundance of right now? Zucchini. I have been picking pounds and pounds of zucchini since late June and I was running out of things to make with it. I’ve…
Peach and Plum Galette
We had a casual outdoor girls night on the farm a few weeks ago and it was more needed than I could have ever realized. We popped open a couple bottles of wine that Pomelo Wines sent to me for sampling and I made a very simple dish of marinated tomatoes and a peach and…