I am on a quest to find the best chocolate chip cookie recipe. I’m serious; it is one of my life goals to master the art of baking chocolate chip cookies. I’m so dedicated to this goal, I even wrote my grad school admissions essay on this topic. I compared baking chocolate chip cookies to […]
Is there such a thing as too many fall recipes? I hope the answer is no. Cause we’ve been on a roll here at LDB! While pumpkin spice seems like a fairly new fall obsession (rightly so!), there is nothing more classic than an apple pie. The tart apples mixed with sugar and spices…not sure […]
I’m a little behind on sharing, but I went to Europe for the first time! My husband and I spent about 9 days in total, traveling through Paris, Belgium and Amsterdam. I’m so excited to share all of our European adventures with you! I’m a little upset because my camera started having issues the first day […]
This is the final installment of my Ireland trip. Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 for a recap! Temple Bar in Dublin. Street in view in the Temple Bar area. Day 9: Naiomi and I got up early on Day 9 and headed to Dublin. We dropped off our car at […]
Can you believe Thanksgiving is this week?? It falls late this year, so it seems like I should be ready. But somehow here we are again, with a holiday sneaking up on me. If you are hosting this year I’m sure the last thing you … As part of my bridal shower, we had guests give […]
“It’s always better to give than to receive”. While the saying may be cliche, we fully agree! Christmas is our favorite time of the year and half the fun is buying or making gifts for our friends and family! We’ve compiled a list of our … Who here loves brie? (raises hand enthusiastically). Let’s be honest […]
I avoided sweet potatoes like the plague when I was younger. I couldn’t get past the marshmallow topping and the orange color. They just weren’t for me. That was until my cousin transformed them into an AMAZING dessert. Or side dish. Really it could go both ways. We had a pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner with my […]
My name is Stephanie and I have a problem. I buy things in season in bulk, then freeze them…and then never use them. And now my freezer is FULL! Between hatch green chiles, rhubarb, huckleberries, zucchini, homemade pesto and brown bananas I have no room … This post is sponsored by Imperial Sugar. I have received sample products […]
I can’t believe this trip was 2 years ago. Nothing like procrastinating writing posts! We should have been in Italy this summer, but…we all know how that turned out. To satisfy the travel bug I’ve had fun looking through pictures and reliving these trips. If …
If you know me at all you know I’ve been fully embracing fall for the past month. At least. I’ve had to stop myself from watching Hocus Pocus already and have had “This is Halloween” stuck in my head on repeat. BUT. I just spent … If you’ve been following along here for awhile, you’ll know […]
Every now and then you need a relatively simple dessert. You need something that comes together quickly, without any fancy ingredients and that everyone will love. And if you need this recipe in the fall…you obviously need it to be pumpkin. While my pumpkin spice … Welcome to #Choctoberfest 2019! If you don’t remember from years […]
Welcome to #Choctoberfest 2019! If you don’t remember from years past, this is a week full of everything chocolate. Plus a great big prize pack for one of you to win! This year, over 70 bloggers are joining together for a week full of chocolate cakes, pies, cookies, candies and more. You can follow along […]
Hi friends! Things are getting a bit hectic around LDB right now, which is odd for this time of year. I feel like late winter/early spring there’s usually nothing going on. We started January by making a list of goals for the blog this year … If you remember, Kelly and I originally started doing Monthly […]
I warned you, didn’t I? Summer = all peach everything around here. But summer also means hurricane season and this one is already a doozy. Living in Louisiana we were lucky to be far enough north hurricanes weren’t really a concern, but you have never truly seen a storm until you have seen a storm […]
