I was born in Louisiana and a lot of my family still lives there. Because of this I have a love of Mardi Gras food, particularly King Cake. When we moved to Finland, at the beginning of the year these cute little buns started showing up in grocery stores and bakeries. They’re called laskiaispulla or Shrove Buns. Shrove Tuesday is the same this as Mardi is the same thing as Fat Tuesday. So these adorable buns are the indulgent dessert t hat is eaten here before Lent. They’re my very very favorite Finnish treat and only sold at the beginning of the year. I learned how to make them a few years ago and decided because we are likely not going to be here next…
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Continue ReadingFrosted chocolate peppermint cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie. I’ve been making these type of super soft soda shop style sugar cookies for years and years now and every once in a while I try coming up with a new…
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My 2 girls (ages 3 and 6) are kind of strange and they LOVE broccoli. So much. They’ll ask me to make broccoli if it’s been more than a week since I’ve made it last. So you can imagine how…
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I named this recipe Martha’s Banana Bread because my 3.5 year old, Martha, is obsessed with this bread. She helps me make it every time and asks me all the time if we can make it. She also wants to…
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Today is my oldest’s first day of Kindergarten! How does time go by so quick?? I woke up in time this morning to make this Cinnamon Roll Breakfast Cake for her. I make this somewhat often because it’s my husband’s…
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This delicious crumble only takes about 5-10 minutes to put together! Here in Finland, strawberries are in full season and they are the most delicious in the whole world. At least, the most delicious strawberries I have ever tasted. People…
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I have barely blogged since becoming pregnant. It’s been a really rough pregnancy in un-traditional ways. Like I got a cough so bad during a cold I had that it lasted literally 3 whole months and I coughed so much/hard…
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Cinnamon rolls are honestly a tricky thing to make well. Sometimes you get a super dry roll that just tastes like plain sugar, sometimes you get a roll that is so doughy in the middle you’re worried it’s going to…
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I really like the soft soda shop type sugar cookies so much that I’m beginning to have a whole series of different versions of them. Since peanut butter and chocolate are my favorite dessert combo it only makes sense to…
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Chicken stir fry doesn’t have to be intimidating or something that takes a long time. This literally takes 30 minutes or less, especially if you meal prep and cut all the veggies up earlier in the day or even up…
