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My Best Browned Butter Banana Bread Recipe

Meet your new favorite banana bread recipe! It’s moist, deeply flavored, and just the right amount of sweet. It’s an easy, one-bowl loaf that fills your kitchen with the smell of butter and bananas. What could be better!? Every time I move into a new kitchen (which, as an air sign, has been more than a few times), before the drawers are organized or the flour bins find their place in the cabinet, I bake

Trusting the Water

I have been too excited to come update you on my swimming journey. Right after last month’s post, I started swimming lessons. For anyone who wants to watch me word vomit through this, feel free to watch my Instagram highlights for some laughs. Most importantly, yesterday I was able to

Lightning Bugs, Blueberry Scones, and an Analog Fall

I’m reporting live from one of my favorite corners of the country – tucked into the trees of Northwest Arkansas. We’ve spent the week camping here, hiking with the dogs every morning, cooking outside, and watching the moon rise through the trees as the lightning bugs flicker on. It’s been

An October Baking Moodboard

Friends, hi! I’m ready for October (even though it fully snuck up on me this year). The air has shifted, I’ve taken the shortsleeved sweaters out of hiding (long sleeve sweaters are still a ways away), and suddenly the kitchen feels like the best place to be again. It’s the

Building a Winter Life We’ll Love

Hello! I’m writing to you on a rainy morning. FINALLY. The heat has broken and it is pouring. The world smells so fresh (except for rainy day lunch at the middle school where I’m the vice principal — damp kiddos plus mingling food smells is really something) and I love

Apple Cinnamon Texas Sheet Cake

Every fall, I feel this pull (it’s a mission, really) to dream up a new twist on the classic Texas Sheet Cake. It’s a tradition of sorts now. Last year, I baked a Pumpkin Pecan Texas Sheet Cake, the year before that I couldn’t resist leaning into the classic chocolate version

freshly baked and sliced cinnamon raisin swirl bread

Links for Another September Sunday

Word on the street is September is almost over. A month I spent surviving, not thriving. Sometimes when life gets this busy—so busy there isn’t room to think—things fall through the cracks. But if I were to throw a more positive spin on it, it’s a season to really figure

The Bakehouse Texas Super Soft Cinnamon Roll Recipe

These Bakehouse Texas Cinnamon Rolls are the ultimate cinnamon roll recipe—soft, gooey, and swirled with buttery cinnamon sugar, and of course, topped with a tangy

Notes on Hope, Cake, and Other Sweet Things

Friends, good morning! I’m so grateful we get to catch up today. How are you feeling? Me? Well… a little distractible, if I’m honest, but

Tipped Upright

Cautiously, and optimistically, I am feeling better lately! In therapy today, I said I felt finally tipped upright instead of feeling tilted half in and

The Summer I Filled My Cup

Happy September! It is still in the triple digits here, but the light is changing. We have the most beautiful windows in our house, and

Welcome to September Summer

Friends, hello and happy Sunday. We’ve landed at what feels like the last weekend of “true” summer before September Summer sets in – which, I do love! It’s that somehow grounding in-between season of back-from-school weeknight dinners, some fresh intentions, a little exhale before the holidays, and eating the very

Sunday With Salsa Verde and Zinnias

Since you last heard from me, I’ve made a batch of salsa verde from my garden, cleaned and organized my kitchen, made bouquets with these zinnias from my flower patch, spent countless hours working on Floso (my dirty soda business here in Oregon), and drafted my fantasy football team. I’m

From Summer to Cinnamon Season: Ten Ways I Flip My Kitchen for Fall

Yes, it’s still approximately one million degrees outside, but my brain has already jumped ship to pumpkin season. I haven’t baked much this summer (besides pop-up bakery testing), but suddenly I’m daydreaming about bread marathons (yes, I restarted my sourdough starter), pumpkin muffins, and lighting a fall candle while the

Healing vs Healed

Friends, I’m still languishing in heartbreak, but you know what? It’s okay. I am very much in the thick of things, and things will shift, but for now I have learned to say, “I am sad,” pretty confidently. It’s okay to be sad, it doesn’t negate happiness or tranquility, but