Lemon Blueberry Breakfast Cookies

If you don't follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you may not know that we recently bought our first house! After moving to Seattle a little over a year ago, we can officially call Seattle home. We moved to Ballard and I am loving being in walking distance to the Sunday Farmer's Market in Ballard.

I'll be posting more about the house along the way, it was pretty much move in ready but we do have some painting to do. After renting apartments for the past 8 years where I could not paint walls, it's a pretty overwhelming task. So far my train of thought is picking paints based on foods, like Celery Salt, because I like it in my Bloody Mary's. 

One of my favorite things about our new home is

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3 Ingredient Beer Bread

This is no joke, I have a 3 ingredient homemade bread here for you all today! No fancy machines needed.

I came home from work, tossed 3 ingredients in a bowl, mixed them together, put them in the oven, and then I was on to making dinner. Easy as that. And it's delicious! I am a total sucker for warm bread, fresh out of the oven, and I learned that Mr. KMW is too. I made it last night, and I refuse to admit how much or how little is left...

This is a recipe from my Mom (that she got from a neighbor back in the day), she made it quite a bit growing up and I now know why. Easy to make and even easier to devour.

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The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap: Chewy Pumpkin, Caramel & Chocolate Cookies

I participated in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap again this year! It was just what I needed to break up the craziness at work and a packed social calendar. It provided a relaxing Sunday where I forced myself to bake cookies and devour the 3 dozen that were sent to me...just kidding, I shared! And when the cookies were all gone, I just went back to the eggnog...

I made Chewy Pumpkin, Caramel & Chocolate cookies, they were a loose version of these Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies and a fairly messy, but tasty experiment. Caramel is sticky. I've upated the recipe so it's easier to execute next time. When I made these I mixed the rolos into the batter, but my recommendation

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Thanksgiving & French Silk Pie with Rum Whipped Cream

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Weekend! We stayed here in Seattle, where I was very busy with work, but in between work we were having a great time enjoying the holiday with our friends. 

We are thankful to the hosts of our Thanksgiving feast,

that included a beautiful bird (and some goofy looking guys),

and an impressive dessert spread.

While we were in the holiday spirit, a crew of us headed to a Christmas Tree Farm to chop down some trees.

We successfully found 3 trees, that went from the farm to our living rooms.

Okay, okay, I'll move onto the pie soon. Just closing the holiday weekend up by saying, while we of course missed our family on the East Coast we are thankful to have such an awesome family of friends here in Seattle.  Now onto the pie!

So warning

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Snickerdoodle Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Buttercream

As I mentioned in my last post, it was my Mom's birthday recently and my family surprised her in California. After her birthday celebration in California, my parents made a trip up to Seattle to visit us and that landed on her actual birthday. 

After all of the Angel Food Cakes she made for me in my life, I was not going to let her birthday pass without making a homemade dessert. I spotted this Snickerdoodle Cake from Foodie with Family awhile back and decided to make a cupcake version. My Mom was always making Snickerdoodle Cookies growing up and I couldn't pass up the Brown Sugar Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting. 

The cupcakes were delicious, the cinnamon flavor was perfect for Fall and that Brown Sugar Buttercream Frosting....DANGEROUS...so good.

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