Hey guys, happy Saturday. How is your weekend treating you so far? You might remember a few months ago I announced the start of Simple Saturdays, where I use Saturdays to post quick, simple recipes, tips, and tricks that just don’t find their way onto the main blog calendar. They went on a bit of a hiatus during summer, but they’re back just in time for fall, and we’re starting up again with the ever-controversial Pumpkin Spice Latte....
Happy Friday, friends. How has your week been? Not going to lie, mine has been STRESSFUL. Between all the garbage in the world right now and Baking Mischief breaking itself twice(!!) within 24 hours (Were you around for the site weirdness on Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning? It was not pretty.), “chill” has not been a word in my vocabulary this week. But guess what, the week is almost over, it’s sunny and 70 degrees here in Southern California, and we are all still here....
Saturday Morning Snapshot Let’s do this thing… State of the Blog Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! I hope you are spending it exactly how and exactly with whomever you want to. We were in full-on Valentine’s Day mode here on the blog this week. Up first was my favorite ham and potato soup, perfect for a cozy night in with the one you love. On Wednesday, I posted a super simple, super easy pink hot chocolate recipe....
Hey, friends. Last summer, I shared a 30 second, 2-ingredient Chocolate Sauce on the blog. I wasn’t really sure how it would do, if there was really much of a demand for quick, single-serving dessert sauces, but the post has actually been pretty popular. Turns out I’m not the only one who sometimes gets the craving for a last minute solo sundae or chocolate drizzled pancakes. So this summer, I have a couple more of these quick and easy ice cream/pancake/waffle sauces coming your way, and today we’re starting with Peanut Butter Sauce!...
Hey, friends. Happy last few days of 2018! I hope your holidays have been merry. This will be my last post of 2018, and as I do at the end of every December, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite posts of the year. (Here are my favorite recipes list of 2016 and favorites of 2017). It was hard narrowing it down, but I managed (with only a little cheating), and I think this might be my favorite group of recipes yet....
Hey, friend. Super simple, super easy, super essential recipe post coming at you today: Mashed Potatoes for Two! If you’ve ever gotten halfway through putting together a meal and realized your plate could really use some carbs, ever found a single sad potato at the back of your pantry cupboard, ever needed some comfort food on a solo or date night, this is the recipe for you. You just need one medium to large potato or a couple reds, some butter, cream or milk, and salt, and you’re 15 minutes away from some excellent mashed potatoes that will serve one or two....
Monday I shared my favorite pumpkin bread recipe on the blog. Today, for all my small-batch friends, I have a mini pumpkin bread recipe so you can make pumpkin bread all season long whether you’re baking for a crowd or just one or two. Everything I wrote about the full-size version of this recipe is true for this miniature one. The batter is super quick and simple to throw together, and it makes a very cute single small loaf of pumpkin bread that’s soft, moist, and perfectly pumpkin spiced....
(November 2016 Update) This post has been updated with new, non-iPhone photos and edited to update some of the text and recipe notes. If you miss the old photography, I saved one of the old photos beneath the recipe to remember the good times. 😉 How is your Christmas prep going? Mine’s going great, if by great, you mean I have bought a grand total of one present and don’t yet have a tree....
Hey, friend. If you’ve been craving fried rice, have a half-used bag of cooked cauliflower in your fridge, or need a super quick and easy low-carb meal, I have just the recipe for you: Keto Fried Rice. This will hit all those fried rice sweet spots without all the carbs. How to Make Keto Fried Rice You make cauliflower fried rice almost exactly the way you would traditional fried rice....
I have a very important question for you on this gray Monday morning. What is your perfect cup of hot chocolate? Is it lightly sweet? Is it sweetly bitter? Is it, as my sister so helpfully put it trying to describe her perfect hot chocolate, “fluffy,” “not hard,” and “Scottish?” (Sidebar: Whaaaaaat???) My perfect cup goes a little something like this: thick, creamy, and decadent as hell. If that sounds like your jam, gather round, friend....
This post and images have been updated. Don’t worry. You’re in the right place. 😉 We are in week three of our February soup series. So far, we’ve had the World’s Easiest Chicken Taco Soup and Easy and Comforting Ham and Potato Soup. This week, we’re moving onto something a little heavier and A LOT cheesier, Easy Cheesy Broccoli Chowder. Proving that good recipes come from all over the place, the original version of this one came out of a recycling bin....
A few months ago, ages before apple weather, when we were all still in shorts and sandals, eating ice cream (who am I kidding we’re still doing that here in California), I scrolled past this apple cake on Pinterest. And I had to have it. Like instant, want to reach through the screen, had to have it. BUT that recipe makes a 9×13-inch cake, and I knew that if I made a 9×13-inch cake, I would eat a 9×13-inch cake (or a lot would go to waste), so I grabbed the single Granny Smith apple in my fruit bowl and made a mini version....
I have a non-recipe recipe for you today. Less an actual recipe, more like a hey, you should start doing this because it’s kind of amazing. Turn your coffee into ice cubes!! Coffee Ice Cubes: The Perfect Way to Use Up Leftover Coffee Why are we not all making coffee ice cubes all the time in the summer??? This is the best way to use up leftover coffee (okay, maybe a close second to baking it into cake…)....
I’ve been meaning to write a post on this topic for a while, and since so many of us are at home stress baking from our cupboards anyway, now seemed like the perfect time to finally sit down and do it. Let’s talk about all the things you can bake with pantry staples. The amazing thing about baking is how many things you can make with just a handful of ingredients....
Hey, friends. Today’s recipe is a fun one because it’s both an old family favorite and something I just learned to cook myself: super easy Chicken Curry. Unlike other childhood favorites I’ve posted (Mom’s Simple Sunday Beef Stew, Chicken Cacciatore, Slow Cooker Tri-tip Sandwiches, etc.), I’ve eaten this Chicken Curry literally hundreds of times in my life, and yet somehow never actually been the one to make it. When I asked my mom for the recipe a couple weeks ago, she looked at me like I was a moron because everyone else in the family knows it by heart....
Hey, all. How’s your weekend going? If you’re celebrating Father’s Day, do you have everything all set for tomorrow? I thought I did. Every year, my dad asks for exactly the same Father’s Day meals: Breakfast Fried Rice, Chicken Curry, and my mom’s famous cheesecake, which she makes because she’s the cheesecake queen. This year, my dad saw my Mini Kahlua Cheesecakes in his feed on Facebook and decided last minute that, plot twist!...
Hey, friends, it’s time for another milkshake recipe in my how to make a milkshake series. Today we’re tackling the perfect, the amazing classic Chocolate Milkshake. The Secret to the Best Chocolate Milkshake I’m pretty picky about my chocolate milkshakes. They must be thick, they must be creamy, and they must have a killer chocolate flavor. This chocolate shake absolutely fits all those bills, and might just be my favorite chocolate shake in all the world....
I have another quick tip for you today. Maybe you already know this one. Maybe this is how you’ve always cut your romaine. Or maybe this is going to change your salad-loving life. I know it changed mine! This is the very fastest and easiest way to cut romaine for all of those January salads you’ve been making. Wash any visible dirt and debris from the outside leaves. Shake or pat dry....
I feel like I always start my posts with a Hey, do you need X problem solved? Here’s a recipe that will do that! Like, hey, do you have a sad brown banana? Make One-banana Small-batch Banana Muffins! Or, hey, do you have tons of leftover pesto? Make a Pesto Chicken Sandwich! But that’s how I approach most of my recipe creation because I love recipes that solve problems, even when X problem = something silly like too much ice cream....
May Nerd Month has come to a close. Whew, it has been a long, GIF-filled month of book, television, and film recipes. Thank you, lovely readers, for indulging me and following along as I fangirled over and rambled on about so many things I love. I had such a blast putting these recipes and posts together and I hope you had a good time too! My Nerd Month Recipes Were: As I do at the end of every monthly series, I’m finishing out the month with even more recipes that fit the theme from some of my favorite fellow bloggers (with a couple of my own in there too), and oh my word, they are fantastic!...
