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Recipes

Strawberry Malt Icebox Cake

Shrimp Boil outdoors on butcher paper.

Stovetop Zatarain’s Shrimp Boil with Cajun Style Smoked Sausage & Garlic Butter Sauce

Lowland Celery Salad

Lavender Lemon Drop Martinis

My Favorite Buttermilk Marinated Chicken

a slice of dauphinoise potatoes on a plate

Better Than Scalloped Potatoes: Dauphinoise Potatoes

two slices of egg in a hole with texas toast in a cast iron skillet

Texas Toast Egg In A Hole

Chocolate Croissant Overnight Breakfast Casserole

a lovely pat of butter melting on top of a slice of cinnamon raisin swirl bread

Classic (if not a little sweeter) Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Bread

Chai-Spiced Hot Cocoa + The Warmest Spot in My Bellville Home

French Onion Cornbread Dressing with Zatarain’s Smoked Andouille Sausage

Overnight Apple Fritter Focaccia Recipe (with step-by-step photos)

A Classic Pineapple Upside Down Cake with a Secret Ingredient

Brown Butter Pumpkin Texas Sheet Cake

The Ultimate (EASY!) Cookies and Cream Brownies

My Best Browned Butter Blueberry Muffins

The Easiest Overnight No-Knead Bread Recipe

ice cream sandwich, with sprinkles lacing the edges

Deb Perelman Really Does Make The Best Ice Cream Sandwiches

close up of freshly baked apricot ginger scones, with fruit showing through the fluffy dough

These Apricot Ginger Scones Were My Favorite Scones in Los Angeles

pouring quiche Lorraine mixture on top of cheese, bacon, and onions

Crème Fraiche Quiche Lorraine

finished kolache recipe waiting in the pan to be eaten

Lemon Poppy Seed Kolache

I Made Callie’s Hot Little Biscuits and You Really Should, Too!

spoonful of spring salad with edamame, asparagus, cannellini beans, slivered almonds, and crumbled cheese

Spring Asparagus Salad with white beans and almonds

We Baked King Arthur Baking’s Recipe of the Year (so you don’t have to?)

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I’m a baker, photographer, cookbook author and teacher. I live laugh love in Bellville, Texas.

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