Cinnamon Rolls are one of life’s most essential comfort foods. Big, soft, pillowy dough- swirled with oozing gooey cinnamon-sugar filling and topped off with creamy frosting. It can seem daunting to make perfect cinnamon rolls at home, but I assure you this is the best, easiest recipe for homemade Cinnamon Rolls! I call this recipe… Read Post
With Easter one week away, I’m sure many of you already have an idea of what you’ll be serving for dinner, many menus planned with tradition over the years! But if anyone is still swirling ideas around in their heads, I wanted to offer up a few suggestions of some of my favorite things. Easter… Read Post
Carrot cake and Easter seem to go hand in hand. We have a great, easy carrot sheet cake in our first cookbook that we love, but this is the carrot cake for celebrations and also for murder by sugar. This is my friend Jeni’s (who I always seem to be stealing recipes from) trademark cake, and… Read Post
We are heading into that magical time of year when, as parents, our lives are completely overrun by performances, dance recitals, concerts, plays, musicals, and awards ceremonies. I recently posted some photos I took of a local production of Matilda on Instagram and got several requests for how to take stage photographs. So. If you’re wanting… Read Post
These days you can find sweet potato fries on many restaurant menus, but just ten years or so ago that wasn’t the case. I still remember the first time I ever tasted them- it was at McMenamins when we lived in Portland. They were were served plain with just a sprinkling of salt, and they… Read Post
Easter Cookies! I always love the idea of decorating holiday cookies, but the reality is making different color frostings and making something that doesn’t look like a preschooler did it is sometimes challenging! I’ve showed you some hand-drawn cookies before, for Valentine’s Day, and I wanted to do some Easter Cookies this year as well!… Read Post
For the last 2 1/2 years, my friend Devin and I have met nearly every week for lunch. If you don’t have a girlfriend you have a non-official standing weekly lunch date with, I strongly recommend that you find one. Every girl needs girlfriends (which I did not always believe) and if this whole adulting… Read Post
These Bacon-Wrapped Teriyaki Chicken Skewers are one of my favorite OG Our Best Bites recipes. I was planning on posting an amaaaazing new dinner recipe today and share this (made-over) post on Thursday, but then our site went down last week and there are still things that aren’t quite working right PLUS basically my whole… Read Post
So have you had a hard time finding a brand of Teriyaki sauce that you like at the store? Or even more likely, have you ever found yourself quickly approaching dinnertime and you think you have nothing to make? Well, I’m here to tell you that I’m willing to bet that you always have the… Read Post
My family loves eggs and they’re often at the center of our quick and easy weeknight dinners. Sometimes when making things like poached or fried eggs for a crowd – whether it be just enough for a family dinner, or a really large amount for a luncheon or party- you are really limited by the… Read Post
I caused quite a stir on Instagram this past week when I shared a series of stories from a brand new Albertsons store here in my home town. Some of the comments left were “Is it weird I want to take a road trip to Albertsons?!” and “My official bucket list: Paris, Milan, Bora Bora,… Read Post
