Lemon Ginger Tea

Lemon Ginger Tea

Winter is arriving late in Alabama this year and with it a myriad of lovely illnesses. People everywhere are hacking and sneezing and touching things with their germy hands. Yum! That’s when I know it’s time for this lemon ginger tea. It has tons of…

Honey Lavender Sweet Rolls

Honey Lavender Sweet Rolls

I decided to make these honey lavender sweet rolls when I was going through old posts and saw this beautiful memory with a lovely tangelo sweet roll recipe attached. We announced our first baby on the blog with that post, and I realized we never…

Super Carrot Muffins + Cooking with Toddlers

Super Carrot Muffins + Cooking with Toddlers

This recipe for super carrot muffins comes with tips on cooking with toddlers because it was the first cooking experiment I did with BOTH my two year old and one year old actively “helping” me. Needless to say, there were many lessons learned the day…

Strawberry Rhubarb Pop Tarts

Strawberry Rhubarb Pop Tarts

Rhubarb season is upon the Midwest and the South is in an uproar over this unique vegetable. It’s extremely tart, extremely delicious, and extremely difficult to find here! My goal several months ago was simple: make strawberry rhubarb jam. It was still early yet in…

Crispy Hash Browns  + Tips for Cooking with Littles

Crispy Hash Browns + Tips for Cooking with Littles

When meal decisions are made within an hour of actual dinnertime for two (almost three!) hungry babies, the options are limited. Brinner is a go-to for us as it is high in protein and the kids will always enjoy it, plus we can throw it…

Buttermilk Blueberry Muffins

Buttermilk Blueberry Muffins

Most blueberry muffins benefit from added sugar, as blueberries themselves are rather tart. These blueberry muffins are certainly not lacking in that arena– they’re not trying to be health muffins! With buttermilk, two different types of sugar, and loads of whole and mashed blueberries, these…

Perfect Freezer Biscuits

Perfect Freezer Biscuits

There is a time in life when making small-batch, homemade biscuits from scratch feels doable on any given weekend. Young children often make this an impossibility. In 2014, when I shared this recipe for biscuits, I had the time to manually mix the dough and…

Blackberry Lemon Scones

Blackberry Lemon Scones

These blackberry lemon scones have redefined what a scone is for our southern household. The days of dry and caky scones are gone, and this recipe is definitely giving biscuits a run for their money. With cold butter folded in to create delicious layers, it…

Carrot Oat Bars

Carrot Oat Bars

We love having easy breakfast options for mornings when we don’t have the energy or time to make a full, warm breakfast for the kids. I was originally looking for something über healthy, but then scratched that plan in lieu of something I thought they…

Huevos Rancheros on the Grill

Huevos Rancheros on the Grill

It was a cold and gloomy November Sunday. My daughter insisted on playing outside, so we lit a fire on the back porch and the smell made us hungry for any grilled fare. We had eaten a meager breakfast of cereal. Our stomachs were lacking…