Cookies and cream. Honestly, does anybody else just light up inside when they hear those three words together? Because the second I do, I’m eight years old again, sitting at our dining room table with my brothers, a tall cold glass of milk, and a stack of Oreos between our open homework binders. Nothing got … Read more
I keep a two-pound bag of frozen shrimp in my freezer the way other people keep eggs in the fridge. On the nights when dinner felt like a problem an hour ago, easy shrimp recipes are the answer I reach for first. Ten minutes under cold water, fifteen minutes in a hot pan, and the … Read more
The first time I made a dump cake was on a Tuesday night when I had committed to bringing dessert to a school bake sale and forgotten until 9 p.m. Cherry pie filling, a yellow cake mix, one stick of butter sliced thin across the top, 47 minutes in the oven. I pulled out something … Read more
Daylight savings has come and gone, the calendar swears it is spring, and Vancouver, as always, has not received the memo. It is still cold, still grey, still very much wet out there. So today I am making my own sunshine the only way I know how, with a very big batch of pretty pink lemon … Read more
Last Tuesday I forgot dinner existed until 6:47 PM. The kids were melting, my husband was on a work call, and I had exactly zero plan. I pulled a foil-wrapped chicken pot pie out of the freezer that I’d assembled three weeks earlier, slid it in the oven, and twenty-five minutes later we were eating … Read more
Some Saturdays only call for one thing, and that thing is a pan of warm cinnamon buns coming out of the oven. The problem is that most recipes leave you with a dozen rolls and a household of two, which means three days of staring at them on the counter as they slowly go sad. … Read more
What do cinnamon buns mean to you? For me they have always meant the early, quiet part of the morning. That window where the light is still soft and blue, streaming through the kitchen window just enough to make the counter glow, the kettle starts to whistle, and there is nowhere on earth you would … Read more
Ice cream sandwiches were always my weakness as a kid. When the truck rolled around the corner with that tinny little song playing, I never even looked at the popsicles — it was straight to the cookie-and-ice-cream window every time. These chocolate dipped oatmeal ice cream sandwiches are everything that childhood memory promised, only better: vanilla bean … Read more
It is nine o’clock, the pantry is half empty, and I want something sweet. I have been there more times than I want to admit — and it is exactly why I keep a running list of the best 3 ingredient desserts that actually deliver. Not the watery Pinterest kind. The real kind. The best 3 ingredient … Read more
There is a pound of ground beef in your freezer right now. I would bet money on it. That frozen brick is the cheapest, fastest, most forgiving starting point in your kitchen, and these easy ground beef dinner recipes turn it into a real meal in under 30 minutes flat. I spent three months testing … Read more