Quick Tomato Baked Eggs Skillet Supper

March 20, 2013

I know some of you are going to say, “Well, yeah, obviously,” to this little recipe (if it can be called that), but I felt pretty smooth when I thought it up last night. I had a can of tomato parmesan soup that I usually enjoy, but I didn’t feel like eating it alone. I [...]

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Breakfast Stuffed Mushrooms (Portobellos Stuffed with a Leek and Gruyère Scramble)

March 18, 2013

There are lots of stories to tell right now. But I don’t want to tell any of them. Reality does not suit me at the moment. Instead, I will tell you a different sort of story. Something that gives me hope and joy lately is the little Writing Club that meets in my classroom each [...]

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Trashy Krispy Kreme Doughnut & Coffee Tiramisu

March 13, 2013

It was one of those long, hazy summer days of childhood: the ones with so much potential that nevertheless usually devolve into dangling oneself, dead-doornail-bored, from a creaky swingset. Not for me, though. I was holed up in my treehouse next to my immaculate play-kitchen, planning my brilliant invention. For my genius plan, I would [...]

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Bailey’s Hazelnut Chocolate Tiramisu (and Photographing FOOD)

March 3, 2013

First off, let me just say that if I were a red-headed stepchild, I’d be annoyed with the world for making me into a symbol of awkwardness and ostracism. Red-headed stepchildren deserve love, too! They will hopefully forgive me when I say that photography has always been my red-headed stepchild. In the food blogging world, [...]

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Buttery Coconut Almond Pull-Apart Bread (with Heavenly Coconut Cream Glaze)

February 26, 2013

This Coconut Almond Pull-Apart Bread is one of the best things I’ve ever eaten and I really want to spend a few paragraphs gushing about it. But there’s no time to gush about it. BECAUSE CAT. If you’re on Willow Bird Baking’s Facebook page (and if you’re not, you’re missing a lot of fun over [...]

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Key Lime Pie Cheesecake with Sky-High Meringue

February 20, 2013

Feet. It occurred to me, lying in corpse pose and trying to slow the hamster wheel of my thoughts, that my yoga teacher probably touches hundreds of feet each week. Every breath in and breath out, I heard her move to the next mat and take up the next pair of feet. Before long, the [...]

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Lemon Cheesecake Morning Buns

February 12, 2013

You know the saying, “Don’t dress for the job you have; dress for the job you want”? I like to adapt that statement for my own ridiculous purposes on occasion. The other day it was roughly 40 degrees outside, which is basically winter-in-Antarctica weather for me (some New Englander with a snowdrift the size of [...]

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Valentine’s Day Dessert Recipes from Willow Bird Baking

February 7, 2013

It’s that time again: Valentine’s Day. You either love it or you hate it, but you have to admit . . . at least it’s an excuse to eat dessert? Here are a few that will definitely score you brownie points with your sweetheart (or your own solitary tummy as you sit on the couch [...]

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White Sheet Cake with Fluffy Whipped Icing

February 5, 2013

“I want to start a blog.” Those 6 words take me right back to June of 2009, when I snapped a (dark, blurry) photo of some blueberry lemon cheesecake cupcakes with lemon frosting, waxed poetic about them, and hit “Publish” on my very first Willow Bird Baking post. When I hear those words now, part [...]

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Quick & Easy Sides: Roasted Carrots and Asparagus with Garlic-Lemon Aioli

February 1, 2013

Their faces shriveled up like little raisins, puckered with panic and surprise. Even though the 7th graders kept their angst non-verbal (ah, they’re growing up!), the mere mention of the deadline for their first research paper was obviously producing epic inward groaning. That’s when we had to have our talk, and I’m about to have [...]

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