Two friends, miles apart, who love to bake!
Christmas is right around the corner and this Orange Cranberry bread is the perfect recipe for your holiday breakfast. Not only are the flavors festive, just look at that cranberry icing! To be honest, I usually shy away from breads and stick to muffins instead if possible …
If you’ve noticed a decrease in blog activity lately…we have a good excuse! Stephanie went and got married and Kelly was there alongside her! We’ve got a bachelorette trip to New Orleans to recap plus we have TONS of wedding pics to share with you. …
I usually only make zucchini bread about once a year. And every year, I wonder why. It’s easy, delicious and I consider it a health food because it has vegetables.
Growing up we always grew zucchini and I remember having so much that we’d be begging neighbors to take it off our hands. The last two years I’ve tried to grow my own, and for one reason or another they died. All of them! It’s getting really annoying.
So even though this isn’t homegrown zucchini bread, it’s still pretty amazing. I love how it stays moist days later. Lately I’ve been adding cinnamon into baked goods, just because I’m obsessing over fall, and that extra bit of spice takes this bread over the top.
Nuts or raisins are also good additions, but I prefer chocolate chips. After all, I like my breakfast to taste like dessert.
~Stephanie
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread (recipe adapted from Ravenscroft Inn)
I don’t know about you, but I could eat pizza every single day and never get tired of it. I like it cold for breakfast, I’ll take leftovers for lunch, it’s never a bad idea for dinner and I am always on board with it for …
It has been a wet, wet spring and early summer here. I’ve seen the most intense rain, loudest thunder and crazy lightning since moving to Louisiana! Unfortunately the storms don’t do anything to cool off the temperature though, so we’ve been spending a lot of …
The past month my roommate and I have been taking a cake decorating class (more on that later…), meaning we each have to make a cake and frosting every week for this 8 week class. Meaning we have TWO cakes sitting in our house at all times. While we’ve been giving a lot of it away, can you blame me for not craving any sweets lately?
There is one thing I never get tired of though. And that is carbs. And cheese. Put the two together? I think that’s what heaven tastes like.
These breadsticks are easy peasy too. Make the dough, let rise 10 minutes, roll it out, cut into strips, let rise 15 minutes, then bake! No extensive prep work or prolonged waiting times required. I don’t know about you, but as soon as I’m off work I want to eat dinner, and I don’t want something time consuming either.
Depending on how thin you roll your dough and how you cut it, you can easily get a dozen breadsticks from this recipe. The perfect amount for a meal and some leftovers. Or if your friends are anything like mine, a great addition to girl’s wine night!
Actually, I changed my mind. I think heaven tastes like cheesy carbs and red wine.
Enjoy!
~Stephanie
Garlic Cheddar Breadsticks (adapted from Six Sister’s Stuff)
Guys. Have you made your own croutons before? Because you should. Every few weeks we splurge and buy a nice loaf of bread for dinner, usually if we’re having a hearty pasta dish or a homemade soup. But seeing as there are only two of …
Thanksgiving is in a week guys. ONE week. Are you ready?? Personally I love Thanksgiving. It’s a very close second to Christmas in my book. I love all the food, spending time in the kitchen with my family and our tradition of watching our first Christmas movie …
If you know me at all, you know I have a Starbucks obsession. Really it’s just a coffee obsession, but there is a Starbucks less than 2 blocks from my house. I end up there a lot.
I don’t usually get food there, since I’m going for the caffeine, but if I do I always end up with the pumpkin bread. Once I splurged and got the pumpkin cream cheese muffin though, and my life was changed forever.
As if the pumpkin bread wasn’t good enough, the muffins had the addition of the tangy cream cheese with the sweetness of the pumpkin. Since Kelly already made us pumpkin bread, I knew it wouldn’t be too difficult to alter the recipe a bit.
I think the thing I love most about baking breads is the smell. It’s the best version of potpourri…your house smells good AND you get to eat something! Not sure there is anything better.
Now that it’s officially FALL (!!!) is it acceptable to eat pumpkin flavored everything for the next three months? Because that’s all I want to do!
~Stephanie
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread
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As Kelly mentioned before, we ate so many great meals in Portland we just knew we’d have to recreate some at home! We went to a cute little Swedish place called Broder for Easter brunch and it had the most delicious bread! Not that my meal wasn’t …