Sometimes you’re in the mood for cinnamon rolls. Then there are times when you’re in the mood for red velvet cinnamon rolls. Today is one of those days. The best kind of weekend morning involves cinnamon rolls. A fresh-out-of-the-oven-slathered-in-glaze cinnamon roll. But let’s elevate Christmas morning. These skillet red velvet cinnamon rolls are such a treat. While we were perusing our own blog for something to make for dinner, we…
Breakfast in bed. Airports. Extended vacations at the lake house. Snow days. Christmas morning. These are some of the things that come to mind when I think about cinnamon rolls. They are the comfort food of all comfort food. A Cinnabon cinnamon roll is the greatest indulgence when you’re waiting at the airport. You can’t just walk by the store, smell the warm cinnamon and sweet icing, and not buy…
Not sure if I’m sick of food from Thanksgiving, but I’ve had no interest in 1. cooking and 2. eating. The ‘no-eating’ part pairs nicely with margaritas—sarcasm! The only pomegranate margaritas we have are frozen, and I have no desire to wake up my son with the blender. It felt like I needed to throw together a holiday cocktail that wasn’t frozen. That’s how these cinnamon-spiced pomegranate margaritas were born.…
Want to make a sweet and easy treat this morning? Serve a tasty dessert for breakfast this holiday season using something you might have in your fridge already! Cinnamon Rolls! Ingredients: Can of cinnamon rolls (Pillsbury or your favorite kind) – I chose to use the mini ones so I could get more out of the can. Directions: Turn on the waffle maker and wait for it to heat up. Pop…
We took our first big, family vacation to Disney World! Everyone had such a great time and it really was an amazing trip. This is our Ultimate Disney Vacation Recap where I will share all the things about our trip. My goal for this recap is to share the tips I found along the way, helpful things to pack, and our general experience staying at a Disney World Resort. What…
A previous version of this post for red velvet waffles was published in November 2012. We overhauled the post with new photos, formatting, and text. If you don’t eat something red velvet on Valentine’s Day, is it even Valentine’s Day? We love our red velvet desserts (truffles, whoopie pies, icebox cake), and the perfect thing to wake up to on February 14th, besides cinnamon rolls, is red velvet waffles. This…
The most wonderful time of the year is here: Fall baking season. Pumpkin bread, apple pie, muffins, banana loaves, sweet potato pies, and all sorts of holiday treats to come. These are some of my favorite holiday baking essentials to get you through all the holidays from fall to New Years. Gadgets and Gizmos Pie dish – What is fall without a pie? Pumpkin, Apple, and Sweet Potato are our go-to…
Hey you, we see you. Thanks for finding us. Right now, we are (by “we” I mean “the world”) going through something really awful. We’re all feeling something: stressed, upset, anxious, isolated, and a million other emotions all at once. You’re not alone. No, really, we want you to know that. While we may not be able to enjoy the physical presence of our friends, family, and neighbors right now,…
When we started the blog, we were inspired to post all of our favorite recipes. However, we really weren’t paying too much attention to the quality of the photos. But over the last seven years, we stepped up our photography and food styling. My first thought when I looked back at some of these photos was, “Really, Brian?” With a background in film and television production, I was kicking myself,…
We cannot believe how fast this year flew by. 2018 is over, but it was a great year. Having a baby means having many firsts: first Mother’s & Father’s Day, first Halloween, first Thanksgiving, first Christmas, first laugh, first words, first time sleeping more than 3 hours at night, first [insert cute baby thing]. However, our new year’s eve plans will be like the last few years and involve watching our…
Dear Liam, The hours leading up to your arrival felt like they happened years ago. But just a few weeks ago, we welcomed you to the world. We wanted to remember the day’s events, so here’s your birth story as told by your parents. We planned on meeting you on June 3. But it seems you wanted to meet us sooner. What a wonderful Mother’s Day surprise! Here is your…
Today’s Throw back Thursday highlights the delicious breakfast Fatima and I made for my mom for Mother’s Day. All she wanted to do for her day was to 1.) have a great breakfast 2.) go for a bike ride and 3.) spend the afternoon at one of our town’s vineyards. Who better to make your breakfast than Fatima and me? The day before – grocery shopping. My mom had only…
We went nuts for donuts this past weekend. We baked up a storm of red velvet and chocolate donuts. Some were left plain, but the others were dipped into glaze. I don’t really know what came over us, but we were really excited to make these. Bake? Yes, these donuts were baked not fried. Last time we baked up some delicious donuts was last fall when we made pumpkin donuts.…
After all of that pumpkin, I thought I should provide an easy recipe that was pumpkin-less. Enter, Pumpkin Apple Pie Pockets. They are extremely easy to make and do not take a long time to prepare. We got the idea to make these apple pie pockets when we made the mini cinnamon rolls. Here’s what you’re going to need:…
Day 2! And you guessed it…MORE PUMPKIN! We found this recipe while stumbling along Pinterest and knew that we had to try them. Just want to give you a heads up, this recipe will take some time to make, so be sure to plan ahead! And the best way to use a mini muffin tin, besides mini cinnamon rolls? Pumpkin donut holes! aka: Pumpkin Poppers. ENJOY THESE DELICIOUS DONUTS!…
TGIF! Start your morning with some mango mimosas. I had mango mimosas when a friend and I went out to brunch a few weeks ago and loved them. So, naturally, I needed to try to make these myself… Ingredients: 4 Mangos 1 Bottle of champagne I’ve never cut mangos before. I discovered that they are 1.) slimy and 2.) hard to cut. Be sure to peel them so that you’re…