Author: cookingcardinal

Pecan Pie

Pecan Pie

Thanksgiving is a great time to spend with family, celebrate the people we love in our lives, and eat copious amounts of food. I always find even more reasons to celebrate the holiday: 1) My birthday falls around it (this year it was actually on 

Hard Boiled Eggs

Hard Boiled Eggs

You may have noticed by now: I love to cook!  However, I don’t always love grocery shopping as much.  Sometimes it feels like I’m in an on-again, off-again relationship with grocery shopping.  If I have a recipe in mind or am in a wandering mood, 

Butternut Squash Soup

Butternut Squash Soup

Halloween has come and gone, which means we are well entrenched in soup season!  There are so many different kinds of soup, it’s hard to pick a favorite.  Luckily, you don’t have to pick just one to enjoy! As all Minnesotans know, winter is long 

Pumpkin Pound Cake

Pumpkin Pound Cake

It feels like just yesterday I sat down to write my first post for the brunch series I’ve been doing (in case you missed it, see: mimosa bar, bacon quiche, and spinach apple salad).  It has been over a month since I cooked brunch for 

Spinach Apple Salad with Maple Vinaigrette

Spinach Apple Salad with Maple Vinaigrette

There are so many things to love about fall, but one of the best parts (in my food world at least) is that honeycrisp apples are once again available.  Cultivated by the University of Minnesota, honeycrisp apples are the best apples.  That’s not just an