cooking, baking, and a home in the making

Author: Courtney

Cranberry Orange Muffins with Rosemary

Cranberry Orange Muffins with Rosemary

I love to bake muffins on the weekend and then eat them throughout the week for breakfast. These cranberry orange muffins have a hint of rosemary and are a perfect winter breakfast with just the right flavors and spicy to remind you of the holidays.

Gingerbread Cobbler

Gingerbread Cobbler

There is something about the holidays that turns me into a complete sugar fiend. As soon as I get the first whiff of fall I am ready to start inhaling desserts like it’s my job. In November it’s usually pumpkin and apple and then come …

Homemade Green Bean Casserole

Homemade Green Bean Casserole

Let me start out by saying that I LOVE GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE. And I mean the canned green beans, cream of mushroom soup, mushy, casserole-y, classic that I eat 4 helpings of on Thanksgiving. That being said, my husband doesn’t love it. He doesn’t like …

My Favorite Apple Pie Recipe

My Favorite Apple Pie Recipe

This is quite possibly my favorite pie of all time. I am a huge pumpkin pie girl, but man, this apple pie has my heart. I have tweaked this recipe for a couple of years and this is turning out to be THE ONE. It’s …

Preventing Another Hospital Stay: Why I Choose to Vaccinate

Preventing Another Hospital Stay: Why I Choose to Vaccinate

When my daughter Willa was born she inhaled meconium during labor. She had to be in the NICU for 6 days before we could bring her home. In all of our first pictures of her, she was hooked up to breathing tubes, feeding tubes, oxygen, …

Chipotle Feta Hummus

Chipotle Feta Hummus

I still remember the first time I made this Chipotle Feta Hummus. I made it for my then-boyfriend, now husband, and he absolutely loved it. So I figured I’d make a batch for my brother and my dad for a visit we were having with …

My January Love List

My January Love List

This year I want to start getting back into blogging for myself. I love sharing recipes and tips and I am going to continue to do that, but I also hope I can make this space feel like a personal outlet because, after 2020 and …

Easy Meal Prep: Cook Once Eat All Week

Easy Meal Prep: Cook Once Eat All Week

My biggest struggle since becoming a mom is cooking. I never thought I would say that, but here we are. Let me remind you that this blog started out as a cooking blog. I LOVED to cook, always have. But from the moment I got …