When I smell grated carrots browning with butter and bananas getting cozy in a bowl, I leap straight back to my grandmother’s tiny kitchen. She kept a chipped […]
Dessert
Strawberry Shortcake Cookies
Okay, full disclosure: I made these cookies because I wanted strawberry shortcake but didn’t want to wrestle with layers, cake, or fancy piping at 9 p.m. They came […]
Dessert
Old-Fashioned Homemade Banana Pudding
When I was little, my grandmother always kept a tall tin of vanilla wafers in the back of the pantry like it contained treasure. She’d call me into […]
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Carrot Apple Yogurt Salad
Bold alert: I get ridiculously excited about salads that behave like desserts. I remember the first time I tossed together a pile of crunchy carrots and tart apples […]
Dessert
Starbucks Carrot Cake
Okay, lean in—this is my little kitchen heist: a homemade riff on the beloved Starbucks Carrot Cake that somehow tastes even cozier when you make it yourself. I […]
Dessert
Strawberry Pretzel Salad
Whenever I smell warm butter and salty pretzels together I’m instantly nine years old again, hovering in my mom’s tiny kitchen while she made this exact dessert for […]
Dessert
Bomboloni (Italian Donuts)
When I was little, my Nonna used to call them “little clouds” and I believed her—because nothing smelled as heavenly as her kitchen when she fried bomboloni: warm […]
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Carrot Apple Salad
Warm mittens, a stack of bowls, and the smell of cinnamon apple pie? That’s the cozy picture I get every time I shred carrots and slice crisp apples […]
Dessert
Struffoli Recipe
When I was a kid, my Nonna turned our tiny kitchen into a candy factory every December: flour clouds, laughter, and a mountain of little golden balls she […]
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Carne Asada Citrus Marinade
Here’s a little chef’s secret I’ve been hoarding: citrus doesn’t just brighten a dish — it transforms cheap steak into something that actually sings. I learned that in […]