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Happy Pumpkin Day 🎃 In my kitchen, pumpkin recipes are for October and November! I just posted a blog full of pumpkin. Head to link in bio or kitchenistics.com for recipes I made and recommend! 🧡Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting @sarah_kieffer No words. Simply the best. I added maple to my frosting 😋 🧡What I call Pumpkin Bars with Gooey Chocolate from @cloudykitchen 🧡Pumpkin-Crust Pizza with Arugula and Prosciutto @purewowrecipes #pumpkinrecipe #pumpkinbars #pumpkinandchocolate #pumpkinrecipes #manzanitaoregon #manzanitabeach #fallrecipes #fallbaking #maplefrosting #pumpkinpizzacrust #savorypumpkinrecipes

Here's a peek at my new kitchen! See my blog post for more details: https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/my-beach-kitchen

Angie Hatfield on Instagram: "I’m finally sharing my new beach kitchen! After a two year journey we are settled into our new home on the North Oregon Coast and love it! Go to www.kitchenistics.com/blog/my-beach-kitchen to read my latest blog post.. Angie Hatfield shared a post on Instagram: "I’m finally sharing my new beach kitchen! After a two year journey we are settled into our new home on the North Oregon Coast and love it! Go to www.kitchenistics.com/blog/my-beach-kitchen to read my latest blog post with more photos and design choice de...

One rainy day I decided to make homemade marshmallows. They were a hit so then I made S'mores Cookies. But then, saving the best for last, I made rocky road ice cream. Not just any rocky road mind you. I call it Salted Toasted Rocky Road Ice Cream. Made with decadent 70% dark and 45% milk chocolates, toasted almonds, homemade marshmallows and Jacobsen Flaky Sea Salt.
See my marshmallow journey: https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/salted-toasted-rocky-road-ice-cream

Have you ever made babka - that pretty braided bread with swirls of gooiness? I'm here to tell you it's not that hard ... but it is a bit time consuming. You start with a challah dough and let it rise. Meanwhile make a chocolate (or brownie in this case) dough. Roll it, layer it, twist it and let it rise again. Bake it, slice it and eat it! I share on my latest post this scrumptious Brownie Babka.



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Bake the Babka — Kitchenistics Babka has been on my list to make for months and months but every time I would think about it, I was a bit intimidated. I needed just the right time and mood for this undertaking. So, on a recent dreary day – April showers (with hail) no doubt – I decided why not? Today was a good day to bake ba...

Lemon Meringue Cookies are the perfect treat for when you don't want to make an entire pie. My latest blog post is about my journey with meringue ... different types of meringue and which meringue ended up on top of these cookies!



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Lemon Meringue Cookies — Kitchenistics Whenever I see a lemon meringue pie, I picture my mom half a century ago opening the oven door and carefully placing her meringue-topped pie in the oven to toast. Sadly, lemon meringue was never my favorite pie and I stayed far away from that wobbly egg white concoction on top. I don’t remember ev...

I'm back and ready to make all the pretty pastel spring-y, Easter desserts. See my latest blog for Double Strawberry-Pink Cupcakes made with strawberry jam and freeze-dried strawberries. Chamomile optional but I love how it makes me smile 😊🍓☀️🍓Recipe from Half Baked Harvest. Follw me for more colorful baking projects 🌈 Spring has sprung!

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Double Strawberry-Pink Cupcakes — Kitchenistics If you live in the PNW, you know that spring typically needs some help when it comes to springing! April showers, and even hail, are real. I attribute the dreary weather with why I’ve been unmotivated in the kitchen and hence haven’t been writing here on my blog. (Well, that and we’re prepping...

The snowy weather this week prompted me to (finally!) make these Coconut-Cardamom Cupcakes, from the "Beyond Christmas" section of Baking for the Holidays cookbook. The coconut is in the cupcake and the cardamom is in the buttercream. Delicious.

Head over to my latest blog post for all the info: https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/coconut-cardamom-cupcakes

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Get out your cookie cutters and make these Olive Oil Pistachio Sugar Cookies! 💕 The glaze is naturally pink from the juice of blood oranges. I dusted the tops with freeze-dried strawberries and crushed up pistachios. Read more about these fancy schmancy ❤️ cookies on my blog: https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/olive-oil-sugar-cookies-with-blood-orange-glaze

I can’t believe it’s already February 8th (even if I already ate an entire bag of those slightly disgusting but oh so delicious cinnamon sugar coated jelly heart candies 🤣❤️)!! These pretty cookies are waaay more healthy - full of good citrus juice 🍊, pistachios and olive oil and not a drop of red food coloring. Yes. This is the cookie queen @sarah_kieffer ‘s recipe for Olive Oil Pistachio Sugar Cookies gussied up for Valentine’s Day with a blood orange glaze and a dusting of freeze-dried strawberries and pulverized (my new favorite word) pistachios. So fun to make and oh so pretty. My cookie making is on my blog linked in bio. #valentinescookies #heartday #happyvalentinesday #sugarcookiesofinstagram #sugarcookies #bloodoranges #pistachios #oliveoilcookies #100cookies #kitchenisticscookielove #snoqualmievalley #loveisintheair #bakingfromscratch #foodismylovelanguage #foodblogger #foodblog #heartcookies

It's a Snow Day!! A good day to use up your candy canes and make a frosty dessert. See my latest post --
https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/peppermint-chocolate-chunk-ice-cream for recipes for Peppermint Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream and a chocolate cookie crust to turn your ice cream into a pie.

I present to you the last (and one of my favorite) cookies of 2021‼️My daughter who ended up extending her stay through the new year due to the ❄️ made Tiny Salty Chocolatey Cookies from . My contribution was cocoa and the BIG 1-pound dark chocolate bar from my pantry. My daughter has made these cookies several times but this time they were THE BEST. Truly the highlight of NYE 😂 Well that and channeling our inner Taylor Swift to the tune of "Feeling 20-22" 😂 These cookies are amazing. Super chewy thin cookies full of chocolatey salty goodness. Put them on your list to make in the new year.

P.S. They are NOT that tiny!
P.S.S. They are gluten free :)

I finally made my once-a-year Gingerbread Waffles using the recipe from Rachael Ray. This version has a cup of pumpkin, molasses and all the gingerbread spices. I like mine best served with whipped cream. But also, I had to try my new Runamok Maple SPARKLE syrup! Look closely to see the sparkles ✨✨ Oh, and I finally received (post Dec. 25) my Sprinkle Pop Santa’s Workshop sprinkles with the cute little gingerbread men so these guys made their debut 😂 Let the holidays continue!

Do you put all your Christmas decor away and stop listening to Christmas music on December 26th? Or are you like me and you keep your house decorated until after the new year?

Forgot to share my pull-apart Cinnamon Bread! Recipe from Baking for the Holidays book from Vanilla Bean Blog. It's not too late to make this!

Peace, joy & cookies to all and to all a good Christmas Eve Eve night! If you need a cookie for Santa🎅🏻, these Red Velvet ❤️ Sugar Cookies may be the ticket. There's also a mint/green 💚 velvet version. The recipe is from Vanilla Bean Blog with a cream cheese swirl baked into the cookie. Brilliant! And oh so yummy.

See how I made them here :
https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/red-velvet-sugar-cookies

Red (& Green) Velvet Christmas Sugar Cookies — Kitchenistics Every year I like to make a new holiday cookie. When I saw the vivid colors of Sarah Kieffer’s take on Red (and Green Velvet) Sugar Cookies, I couldn’t resist. I knew I had to make these bright Christmas-colored beauties. Sarah’s Baking for the Holidays book has a recipe for red velvet cookies...

Have you baked your Christmas cookies? Still looking for ideas? Head over to my latest post: (https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/baking-all-the-christmas-cookies) to join the cookie party and find recipes for:

🎅🏼 Salted Chocolate Gingerbread Men
🎄 Lemon Sables Vanilla Bean Blog
🎅🏼 Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
🎄 Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread
🎅🏼 Glazed Ginger Cookies
🎄 Frosted Sugar Cookies

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ATTN PEANUT BUTTER LOVERS!! I made these scrumptious salty peanut butter sandwich cookies with a PB-honey filling awhile ago. This is the Tom Douglas recipe from his Dahlia Bakery cookbook. When director Nora Ephron was in Seattle for "Sleepless in Seattle" she tried these cookies and elevated their popularity! They are lip-smacking good! See my latest blog for a behind the scenes look.


Tom Douglas Peanut Butter Sandwich aka "the Nora Ephron" Cookie:
https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/tom-douglas-peanut-butter-sandwich-cookies-aka-the-nora-ephron

Thanksgiving had me too busy to write or post anything! My kids were home for several days, which was the best part. But boy was my kitchen busy (and messy). Still recovering! But I did want to share a few pictures!

The apple almond galette was a ZoëBakes recipe.
The flowers are from Down to Earth in Snoqualmie.
Cranberries stole the show. In sauce from Feasting at Home. Candied in my Cranberry + Lime Seltzer from Trader Joe's and in the ice cream for the galette.

The rest of the meal (except the salad and brussels sprouts) was beige 😂 and the turkey was not worth sharing lol.

On to Cookie Baking season!

Pretty much my favorite thing about visiting a new town or city is the eating! A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to enjoy a girls weekend with my three sisters, my daughter and niece. It was a year of several milestones. One sister turned 60. My daughter turned 30 and my niece turned 21. The rest of us are somewhere in between! Coming from five different cities in Oregon and Washington, we chose to meet in Hood River. I have only been to Hood River once before, which is hard to believe since I grew up in the Northwest. Anyhow, my favorite meal while I was there was brunch at Broder Øst, a Scandinavian spot adjacent to the historic hip Hood River Hotel. The egg dishes are served baked in cute individual-sized cast iron skillets. The must-order item is the Ebelskiver or Aebleskiver, which are round Danish buttermilk pancakes. Once I was back home I was inspired to create a similar breakfast and made baked eggs and sweet potato patties with crispy prosciutto and onions.

I share our brunch experience in my latest blog, along with recipes for my inspired recreation at home!

https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/baked-eggs-and-ebleskiver-in-hood-river

Looking for something fun to make for Halloween? Check out my latest post where I take Sarah Kieffer's Brownie Cookies ( #9 in 100 Cookies book) and with a few changes create a googly-eyed peanut butter variation to share with the little monsters in your life.

PSA: Reeses' Peanut Butter Cups are the #1 Halloween treat in the nation.



https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/peanut-butter-brownie-cookies-fromnbsp100-cookies

It's National Pumpkin Day! Here's my gourd-geous pumpkin bread sprinkled on top with cinnamon, sugar, pepitas and walnuts. On my blog today I share this recipe plus recommend several more. I personally like my pumpkin bread with all the spices but no mix-ins muddying up my pumpkin!

Tired of making banana bread during the pandemic? Then start making all the pumpkin bread! 🎃🎃🎃

https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/delicious-pumpkin-bread-recipes

A Rice Krispies treat is hard to pass up, no matter how old you are. They also lend themselves to all kinds of creativity. But not all crispy treats are created equal. Head over to my latest post for a Rice Krispies treats recipe comparison, along with a look at how to make these Browned Butter Mummy Rice Krispies Treats.



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Browned Butter Rice Krispies Mummy Treats — Kitchenistics Rice Krispies treats are the quintessential childhood treat. One of my earliest memories is when my four-year-old self proudly took Rice Krispies treats to kindergarten class when it was my turn for snacks. The story of these treats started back in the 1930s when Mildred Day of the Kellogg Co. Home

More fall baking!! Head over to my latest blog for:
Baked Pear Doughnuts with Crumb Topping 🍐🍩
Apple Cider Doughnuts with Maple Glaze 🍎🍩

https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/two-baked-donuts-apple-cider-and-pear-crumblenbsp

Baked Donuts: Apple Cider and Pear Crumble — Kitchenistics By all means doughnuts should be enjoyed year-round, but I’d argue that  National Doughnut Day  should be celebrated in October (not June; who came up with that?). After all, donuts are synonymous with fall, pumpkin patches and apple cider. When my son was in high school, he worked

Cue all the 🍁 Kitchen forecast: apples, pumpkin, pears, warm and cozy spices, maple and more. In my kitchen, baking with apples starts in September. Pumpkin has to wait it’s turn 😂 I recently made delicious🍎🍏Apple Almond Galette with slivered almonds and Swedish pearl sugar, and a Spiced Chocolate-Pumpkin Cake 🎃🍫using recipe from Read all about these yummy fall bakes on my latest post

What’s on your 🍁fall-baking list?

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Fall baking: Cue the apples and pumpkin — Kitchenistics Apple Almond Galette and Chocolate Pumpkin Cake

When you are the lucky recipient of pears in the mail ... make spicy-sweet pear pizza and a beautiful autumn pear salad 🍐🍕🥗👩‍🍳See latest blog post for recipes!

USA Pears

https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/pears-and-prosciutto-in-a-salad-and-on-a-pizza

Pears and prosciutto pair up in a salad and on a pizza — Kitchenistics Pear perks. Yep, I’m lucky enough to have a sister and brother-in-law who giveth pears each year. I previously shared  that my sister’s husband’s family has a farm in southern Oregon where my brother-in-law’s dad planted pear trees in the early ‘90s. We look forward every year to gett...

The weather is about to change in the Pacific NW. But rain or shine, anytime is ice cream time! See my latest blog for how to make homemade ice cream sandwiches with super scoopable rich chocolate ice cream inside just-the-right-texture chocolate cookie sandwiches.

https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/win-the-day-ice-cream-sandwiches

Win-the-Day Ice Cream Sandwiches — Kitchenistics One evening not too long ago my adult daughter was home for a weekend visit. We were watching TV when she suddenly exclaimed (with great enthusiasm I might add): “I forgot! At  this  house you get dessert  every  night!” While that may not be exactly true (what? D

The angle of the sun has shifted, the kids are headed back to school and football fans are restless. All signs that summer is threatening to end. Ahh … but because my CSA membership lasts until October – I’ve still got time! Belonging to a CSA gives you the freshest in-season fruits and veggies, supports your local farmers, and you’ll probably end up ending healthier. This year I bought a CSA membership with Fall City Farms I’m kinda partial to them because my son’s first job was at this small farm. I’ve had so much fun opening up my box each time to see what surprises are waiting for me. I love that my CSA exposes me to unique produce items that I may never purchase otherwise - or that may not even be available from the grocery. My last box had ground cherries – which I’d never eaten. These little gems are housed in paper husks sort of like mini tomatillos. Inside the husks are marble-sized orangish-yellow fruits that have a sweet-tart taste described by some as a tomato mixed with pineapple or mango. I made a slightly sweet ground cherry salsa. Yummy and received A BIG stamp of approval from my son Farmer Cody.
Recipe on my blog!
https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/ground-cherry-salsa

Ground Cherry Salsa — Kitchenistics … and more fun items from my CSA share The angle of the sun has shifted, the kids are headed back to school and football fans are restless. All signs that summer is threatening to end. But because my Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) membership lasts until October – I’m refusing to admit s...

My 2021 Blueberry Season blog is now live!! The blueberries are still picking in the surrounding Seattle area. We fill our freezers every summer with berries from Bybee Farms. And every year I look for new recipes to try. Go to my latest post to find recipes for:

* Blueberry-mint Arnold Palmers
* Blueberry cheesecake ice cream treats
* Blueberry Dutch babies
* Blueberry cocoa crumble
* Glazed almond-flour blueberry scones
* Grilled halibut with blueberry ginger salsa

What are your favorite or must-have blueberry recipes?

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Winning blueberry recipes — Kitchenistics For those of you who have been with me for the last year, you know that I love blueberry-picking season. We have the best blueberry farm within 10 minutes of our home. Besides being the easiest berry to pick – no bending over or prickly vines (for the most part) – blueberries also last the longe...

Need a refreshing not-too-heavy macaroni salad? My husband wanted to grill burgers tonight so I whipped up this herbaceous, lemony macaroni salad in no time at all! It’s super fresh and summery. Lemon zest, crunchy celery, fresh dill and parsley. I added my favorite zesty dill pickles. Dressing is Mayo, buttermilk and Dijon but not too much. Recipe link and more summer salads on my blog https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/seven-summer-lovin-salads?rq=Salad or click link in bio)

A few days ago, I made the decadent #63 French Silk Pie Bars from Vanilla Bean Blog Sarah Kieffer's 100 Cookies book. The cover reads: classic cookies, novel treats, brownies, bars and more. In my book (if I had a book 😂 I wish I had a book), French Silk Pie Bars fall into the “more” category. They are more than a cookie and more than a bar. They are definitely more complicated. And after one bite, you’ll want more. Head over to my blog for helpful hints on making these decadent pie bars.



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French Silk Pie Bars — Kitchenistics I’ve seen many mentions of and recipes for “French Silk Pie” in cookbooks and online over the years and never really gave it much thought. After all, I have a  chocolate cream pie  made of melted candy bars in my recipe vault handed down from a family member that’s a crowd pleaser

My mom turned 80 last week! 🎉 We celebrated with a party in the park. The menu included pulled pork sandwiches with my good friend Amy Biedermann Halm's famous barbecue sauce and Shirley’s (my mom's) Potato Salad. Because one dessert is not enough, we made German Chocolate Cake with coconut pecan frosting and bittersweet chocolate swiss buttercream, lemon cake with lemon curd and lemon buttercream, and funfetti cupcakes 🧁 Head over to my blog to read about all this yumminess.
https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/80th-birthday-party-picnic-pulled-pork-sandwiches-potato-salad-and-cakes

Looking for a pasta salad loaded with veggies? 🥦🥕This salad sings of summertime😀 This is my sister’s recipe. I swapped (from ) for white and added red bell pepper to the carrots and broccoli in the recipe. Then I added a radish and scallions for garnish. The more colors the merrier! This version includes pepper jack cheese and you could add some salami or even chicken for more protein. Recipe on my blog featuring hazelnuts (also starring in this salad!): https://www.kitchenistics.com/blog/filberts-or-hazelnuts-either-way-toss-em-in-your-salads

Looking for a pasta salad loaded with veggies? 🥦🥕This salad sings of summertime😀 This is my sister’s @joaniemccall recipe. I swapped #purplecauliflower (from @fallcityfarms) for white and added red bell pepper to the carrots and broccoli in the recipe. Then I added a radish and scallions for garnish. The more colors the merrier! This version includes pepper jack cheese and you could add some salami or even chicken for more protein. Recipe on my blog linked in bio. #salads #pastasalad #veggies #summersalad #summervibes #snoqualmievalley #saladsofinstagram #foodblog #foodblogfeed #foodbloggers #feedfeed