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About Anna

I believe in God, the power of optimism, and the ability of food to bring people together. I love to share everyday homemade food with family and friends (and the internetz)! I love cheese, proper grammar, an organized house, dark chocolate, my husband, and my 5 sweet kids.

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Here are my most recent posts

Sweet Potato & Bacon Biscuits

October 30, 2013 by Anna 6 Comments

Sweet Potato & Bacon Biscuits

There’s a reason I don’t read many books. I love to read, but when I’m engrossed in a good book, I am a nightmare to live with.  That book becomes my world, and I walk around in a daze when asked to do anything else.  At the best of times, my inner world is calling […]

Filed Under: Muffins, Scones & Quick Breads Tagged With: bacon, baking, buttermilk biscuits, recipe, side dish, sweet potato and bacon scones, sweet potato biscuits

Halloween and the Devil’s Greatest Trick

October 28, 2013 by Anna 17 Comments

Halloween and the Devil’s Greatest Trick

So I wasn’t going to talk about Halloween here, I reaallllly wasn’t.  I want this space to be full of happiness, positivity, yummy food, and moments to remember.  Yes, there is great tragedy all around us every day, and those big things that really matter, the scary things that change lives and reset directions, seem […]

Filed Under: Monday Moments Tagged With: Christian view on Halloween, halloween, home, why we don't celebrate halloween

Saturday Sweets: Pumpkin Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

October 26, 2013 by Anna 6 Comments

Saturday Sweets: Pumpkin Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

Is there anything better than a cake just begging for a giant dollop of cream cheese icing? Spread it all over…and I just want to dive in face first. This cake was my first foray into pumpkin this season, and, just when I thought I had enough pumpkin recipes to love, this one came along […]

Filed Under: Desserts & Candy, Reader Favourites Tagged With: baking, best pumpkin recipes, breakfast cake, cream cheese icing, pumpkin carrot cake, pumpkin recipe roundup, recipe, snacking cake

Broccoli & Ham Crescent Roll Bake

October 24, 2013 by Anna 10 Comments

Broccoli & Ham Crescent Roll Bake

Here’s a fun little phone conversation my husband and I had the other night… Let me set the scene.  Carl’s out of town overnight, I’m home cutting 40+ lbs of onions for a school fundraiser.  I’m sweaty, smelly, wearing a hairnet, and bawling my eyes out (because of the onions, y’know). Carl: “Hello? How’s it […]

Filed Under: Quick & Easy Meals Tagged With: chicken and broccoli, family dinner, ham and broccoli bake, home, Pillsbury crescent roll crust, quick and easy dinner recipe, recipe

Monday Moments

October 21, 2013 by Anna 4 Comments

Monday Moments

The fall weather has been amaaazing here, with day after day of the bluest sky as the backdrop for all the colours of changing leaves and the crispness of perfect fall temperatures that make me (yes,intensely indoorsy me) want to be outside all day long. We took advantage of the weather last week for a […]

Filed Under: Monday Moments Tagged With: family, home, Monday moments, Seattle Zoo

How to make a Mickey Mouse cake without a special pan

October 19, 2013 by Anna 4 Comments

How to make a Mickey Mouse cake without a special pan

Since my next little one’s birthday is coming up all too quickly (the big 1 year!) I figured I better blog about Kristopher’s birthday cake now or it’ll be too late :) This little man turned 3 a few weeks ago, and chose a Mickey Mouse cake for his special dessert. This little boy is […]

Filed Under: Desserts & Candy Tagged With: birthday cake, boys birthday ideas, easy Mickey Mouse cake, home, Mickey Mouse birthday cake, recipe

Roasted Red Pepper & Squash Soup

October 17, 2013 by Anna 4 Comments

Roasted Red Pepper & Squash Soup

Last night I wrote a midterm I’ve been dreading since the semester began.  I’m taking an online course on perception with a professor I had once before for stats who is not known for his, shall we say, normalcy.  He is one of those people you stereotype professors as but no professors are actually like […]

Filed Under: Quick & Easy Meals, Soups & Salads Tagged With: healthy soup, home, low fat, pureed vegetable soup, recipe, roasted red pepper and squash soup, roasted vegetable soup, vegetarian

Monday Moments

October 14, 2013 by Anna 2 Comments

Monday Moments

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! I have so much to be thankful for … so much I am thankful for. Here are just a handful of those things. 1) This happy little face, every day.  If I could’ve taken a picture that captured him sleeping through the night last night, I would have.  It made me love […]

Filed Under: Monday Moments Tagged With: family, Thanksgiving

Saturday Sweets: Chocolate Cranberry Shortbread Bars

October 12, 2013 by Anna 5 Comments

Saturday Sweets: Chocolate Cranberry Shortbread Bars

I’ve mentioned before how I feel about shortbread. Well, my favourite cookie of all time is getting a serious run for it’s money in these squares.  These have all the buttery melt-in-your-mouth goodness of that whipped shortbread, except now we’re also talking chocolate.  And they’re bars, which means they are even faster since you don’t […]

Filed Under: Cookies & Bars Tagged With: baking, chocolate shortbread, holiday baking, recipe, shortbread bars

Apple Grape Upside-Down Muffins

October 9, 2013 by Anna 6 Comments

Apple Grape Upside-Down Muffins

How often do you use grapes in baking?  I can’t say I ever have before now. To be honest, I can’t say it’ll be a regular occurrence around here either, because grapes usually disappear rapidly in their natural form.  But this summer I got some wild grapes from my sister-in-law (or at least, backyard grapes, […]

Filed Under: Muffins, Scones & Quick Breads Tagged With: apple grape muffin, baking, baking with grapes, breakfast, recipe, roasted grape muffins

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