recipes
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A Recipe I’ve Been Making on Repeat (and Why)
Winter has been settling in quietly. Earlier evenings, colder floors, the kind of days that leave you wanting something warm without much effort. Without really planning it, I’ve been making the same dinner again and again. This is the kind… Continue reading
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My December Booklet. A Cozy Start to Winter
December always feels like a soft pause in the year, a month that holds both quiet moments and little bursts of magic. I’ve been looking forward to sharing this month’s booklet because it carries so much of what I love… Continue reading
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Homemade Apple Butter: A Spoonful of Autumn You Can Keep
When I make apple butter each fall, I’m reminded that good things rarely come together quickly. They do their work slowly, quietly, filling the house with warmth long before they’re ready to be tasted. By the time the apples have… Continue reading
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The Softest Dinner Rolls
Cold evenings call for soft bread straight from the oven. These dinner rolls are light, buttery, and made for cozy meals, the kind you pull apart with your hands and spread with melting butter while they’re still warm. I love… Continue reading
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The Vanilla Sugar I Keep on My Counter All Winter
This is the season when I crave small comforts, the quiet ones that don’t ask for much. On the corner of my kitchen counter sits a little bowl of vanilla sugar. It’s one of those tiny rituals that quietly makes… Continue reading
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The Cottagecore Christmas Cookbook Has Arrived
It’s here! My newest book, The Cottagecore Christmas Cookbook. I didn’t write this one for perfect kitchens. I wrote it for real ones. For wooden spoons that have seen a few winters, for aprons dusted with flour, and for anyone… Continue reading
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A Cozy Little Announcement
There’s a special kind of magic that only comes around once a year, the kind that smells like warm gingerbread, pine needles, and melting chocolate. I’ve been quietly working on something behind the scenes that feels like wrapping a story… Continue reading
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The Quiet Power of Small Cookbooks
Cookbooks are often designed to impress, oversized, glossy, full of elaborate photos. Mine are not. They’re small, just 6×9, closer to a notebook than a coffee-table book. For a long time, I wondered if that made them less than. But… Continue reading
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Spiced Apple Cake with Maple Glaze
The first chilly morning of September always gets me itching to bake something warm and cozy, and this cake is exactly that. It’s one of those bakes where the smell alone makes it worth making, the cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves… Continue reading
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Homemade Vanilla Extract: The Sweetest Gift from the Cottage Kitchen
Every year as the air turns crisp and the evenings arrive a little sooner, I like to tuck away a few bottles of something special: homemade vanilla extract. It’s simple, cozy, and makes the loveliest little gift for holiday baking… Continue reading
Autumn Rosewood 