Spring means rhubarb, and every year I treat the first bunch like a tiny triumph — tart, pinky-green stalks that smell like fresh dirt and lemonade. I pair […]
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Brown Sugar Pound Cake
This brown sugar pound cake never fails to take me straight back to my grandmother’s tiny kitchen, where the air smelled like caramel and butter and the radio […]
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Brown Sugar Pop Tart Cookies
Okay, confession: I once tried to eat a whole toaster pastry by dunking it in coffee like a biscotti and realized it could use better cookie form—and more […]
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Pumpkin Churro Cheesecake Bars
I promised myself I’d stop pretending I don’t have a dessert addiction, and then I made these bars — so much for that resolution. Picture a fudgy cheesecake […]
Dessert
Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
Whenever I smell warm peanuts and sticky jam, I fall right back into my grandma’s tiny kitchen: flour-dusted countertops, a radio playing something from the ’70s, and a […]
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Brown Sugar Pineapple Chicken Wings
I promise I didn’t always love fruit on my wings — but one sticky, summer backyard barbecue changed me forever. Picture this: my cousin juggling a grill, a […]
Dessert
5-Ingredient Sour Gummies
I promise these gummies won’t judge you for stealing spoonfuls of sugar straight from the jar—been there, done that, wore the sticky shirt. If you like puckering faces, […]
Dessert
Blueberry Coffee Cake
My grandma kept a dented metal mixing bowl on the counter that smelled faintly of lemon and cinnamon — that bowl practically hosted every Sunday morning when I […]
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Brown Sugar Cinnamon Caramel
Every fall my kitchen smelled like a warm hug — my grandmother stirred a pot of caramel on the stove while I hovered with a wooden spoon like […]
Dessert
Levain-Style PB Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love a recipe that plays like a kitchen secret: you walk in, toss together a few ordinary things—butter, sugar, peanut butter, chocolate—and out come cookies so tall […]