We put Dustin's boozy eggnog to good use on Christmas morning by making gingerbread eggnog cinnamon rolls! Yes, there is eggnog in both the dough and the frosting, and the filling of the cinnamon rolls has molasses and ground ginger in addition to butter, brown sugar, and lots of cinnamon! They ended up not being the prettiest cinnamon rolls...

Not quite gingerbread granola, but flavored with molasses, ginger, and cinnamon, it's about the closest granola you'll get to gingerbread. It's quite a bit healthier than all of the stuff we crammed into our faces for Thanksgiving and we'll be sure to eat in a few week for Christmas. Until then we'll try to eat a little better when we...

Dustin's been complaining that I've dropped the ball with cooking and baking lately. It's true. With our trip to Texas and my trip to Toronto and then being completely overwhelmed playing catch-up (and thus eating lots of take-out and Trader Joe's), I haven't really been in the kitchen for two weeks. But I made it up to him this weekend with...

This French toast was supposed to be a reward to myself for running 8 miles in preparation for my half marathon. Instead it ended up being a reward for spending pretty much the entire day working on statistics homework. Welcome to graduate school life. I swear I was doing everything correctly, yet for some reason my answer to one question (that...

I've mostly been on a waffle kick lately, so I think it's time that pancakes received some love and attention. Pumpkins have also been getting a lot of press around here, so I instead went with the other quintessential flavor of fall, apples. Lately, lazy weekend mornings have become our thing. After busy weeks, it's nice to sleep in until 9,...

The first time I ever went to Trader Joe's (back on our road trip to Minnesota in the summer of 2010), I bought cat cookies and a box of pumpkin pancake and waffle mix to bring back to Texas with me. I savored and nursed that box of mix for months before sadly, I ran out. These were the days just before I started making most everything from...

Dustin claims he is not the dessert maker in the family, but I think his galette making skills, suggest otherwise. This galette was my idea, and I fully intended to follow through, but when I woke up on Sunday morning feeling a little blah, Dustin took the lead and made most of the galette himself. He can be a little slow to write blog posts, so...

The food in this post is from a long time ago. Like really a long time ago. Like more than a year ago— circa July 2012. I found it at the bottom of the WordPress drafts folder thinking I would delete it since it had been so long and there would be no way we'd be able to find the pictures. But to my surprise I had already put pictures into the...

I have such vivid memories of spending the night at my friend Kevin's house on the weekends when I was a kid, and the next morning waking up to Pillsbury Orange Sweet Rolls for breakfast. They were a change from the standard cinnamon rolls we made (that I also loved), so they always felt like a special treat. The icing (as always) was the best...

I've been dreaming of these raspberry breakfast rolls ever since I saw them in Food and Wine Magazine. I wanted to take them up a notch, so I added chocolate to the mix both inside the filling and in addition to a traditional icing in the form of chocolate merlot sauce from L'Ecole, previously seen here. Get ready to hit the gym before or...