Pumpkin Spice Granola atop a Pumpkin Pie Smoothie

Naturally sweetened pumpkin spice granola is the perfect topping for a healthy and delicious pumpkin pie smoothie. The best fall breakfast around! My favorite activity of the day is when Cooper and I cook in the kitchen. I plop him in his baby bjorn chair, turn some music on, and get cooking. He eats the […]

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies {vegan}

It’s easy to forget about baseball while living in Europe. No one watches it or talks about it, and for all I know; they may not even understand the game. But, as soon as I got back to the states, baseball was the talk of the town. Especially my town. It’s Orange October and the […]

Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I would have never dreamed of attempting to bake vegan. I love butter, I love eggs; what’s the point? Well, the point is that I feel better without eggs and dairy, so I should probably limit them as much as possible. I should probably limit my sugar intake also, but let’s not get too crazy. […]

Fresh Pumpkin Puree

Growing up, orange pumpkins were only meant to be carved and sit on the porch for Halloween. When Thanksgiving rolled around, we used a different kind of pumpkin that came out of a can and was baked into yummy breads, cookies, and pie. How was I to know that those orange Halloween pumpkins could magically turn […]

Pumpkin Pancakes

I used to have plans every weekend. Not necessarily big plans, but I would go into the weekend knowing that my Saturday included yoga at 9:30, brunch with a girlfriend, shopping in the afternoon, and meeting friends for dinner/drinks that night. And Sunday would be similar, maybe including an open house or sports watching.

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

A couple of weekends ago, we made a day trip to a farm outside of Zurich that had a pumpkin festival. I read that you could also go apple picking, but the closest thing we got to finding the apple orchard was finding the apple maze. Due to our lack of speaking the language, delicious […]