Category: Recipes

  • Split Second Cookies

    Split Second Cookies

      I copied this recipe from my dear Grandma’s recipe box when I was a teenager.   This recipe reminds me of precious times with my Grandma. But it’s also just downright tasty. Take a buttery shortbread cookie and fill it with your favorite jam or jelly. Delish. I don’t care for the storebought cookies…

  • Top Pinterest Recipes

    Top Pinterest Recipes

    Some people knock others on Pinterest for pinning food. Me? I embrace it. Who cares that almost 25% of my pins are food-related? I mean, if my pinning food makes my husband a happier and better-fed man, so be it. And let’s not talk about how this could be accomplished without Pinterest because – it’s…

  • Freezable Wild Rice Soup

    Freezable Wild Rice Soup

    Well, folks – it’s come to this. This is our last week for our “Fill Up Your Freezer” series. I hope you’ve enjoyed it! Here are the recipes I’ve shared so far: Freezable Pizza Dough Freezable Burritos Freezable Cookie Balls Freezable Pumpkin Rolls Freezable Muffins Today’s recipe was not supposed to be soup. But a friend shared…

  • Freezable Muffins

    Freezable Muffins

    On Thursday, I found a yummy bread recipe. And I decided the best thing I could do with my life on that Thursday was to make the recipe into muffins. See? I made lots of them. You know why? Because if you’re going to make a recipe, you might as well take 3 extra minutes to…

  • {Freezable} Pumpkin Dinner Rolls

    {Freezable} Pumpkin Dinner Rolls

    I love easy. I also love tasty. Sometimes the two don’t go together. But whenever they do – I’m all there. This is one of those recipes where {easy + tasty} collide. I made these pumpkin rolls for Thanksgiving dinner. It was my first time making a whole turkey and some of my husband’s family…

  • Freezable Burritos

    Freezable Burritos

    Happy Monday! Hope you all had a lovely weekend. I got to date my best friend Saturday night {and shared some on instagram}. I love talking with him and getting to know him better. Plus, we used a gift card and a sweet friend offered to watch our kiddos, so…you really can’t beat free! This…

  • Freezable Cookie Balls

    Freezable Cookie Balls

    Welcome back to the 2nd week of our “Fill Up Your Freezer” series! Today’s freezer tip is probably one of my favorite. You know why? Because it looks like this: Seriously… How can you not love frozen cookie dough balls? This is how it goes…Jonathan and I are going to have a “date @ home”…

  • Fill Up Your Freezer Series :: Freezable Pizza Dough

    Fill Up Your Freezer Series :: Freezable Pizza Dough

     Welcome! To make sure you don’t miss anything, sign up for free email updates & connect with me on facebook! There are some days when I know what I’m making for dinner well in advance and I have all the ingredients ready. And then there are the normal days. Or – at least sometimes it seems that…

  • The One Item Every Kitchen Should Own

    The One Item Every Kitchen Should Own

    Would you like to hear a love story? Of course you would. Several months ago, Jonathan got me something for my birthday that changed my cooking world. Enter the best knife I’ve ever used: Yes, folks, although you might not realize it, you are looking at the greatest knife ever. If I could go back…

  • Top 10 Recipes of 2012

    Hello there! Happy New Year’s Eve to you! Today, I’m sharing 10 of the top recipes shared here on Brown Sugar Toast this past year. Can you say YUM? Get ready to…because I sure did while looking at these pics! In case you missed any – here’s a quick recap of 10 of the most…

  • Hot Cocoa {gift in a jar}

    Hot Cocoa {gift in a jar}

    Hope you have been enjoying the Handmade Christmas series! I am l.o.v.i.n.g. it!! Did you see Christina’s wreath yesterday? Seriously – it looks like it came straight from Ballard. But it only cost her a few bucks to make! Gotta love home decor like that, right? In my ideal world, December is cold. I don’t…

  • DIY Pumpkin Pie Spice

    DIY Pumpkin Pie Spice

    Tis’ the season for pumpkin. And lots of it. Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Chip Bars, Pumpkin Spice coffee creamer (like I was drinking yesterday), Pumpkin Butter, Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins… Many of these items call for a certain ingredient called “Pumpkin Pie Spice.” It’s sold in eensy-weensy containers for a gajillion bucks. Well, maybe that’s a slight…