saturday baking.

I'm thinking that Saturday's are going to be food days here.  Every Saturday I'm either going to talk about a favorite recipe of mine...a favorite food of mine...or most likely a favorite food blog of mine, like I did last week.  Today is actually going to be a combination of a few of those, because I'm gonna link y'all to a few recipes for a certain holiday that is on Tuesday, Valentine's Day.

I love baking.  It's arguably my absolute favorite thing to do in the world.  I also am a lover of pink, it's possibly my second favorite thing in the world.  A good half of everything in my life is pink.  A holiday which celebrates pink, red, & baking (can you tell I'm single & ignoring the actual reason for the holiday)?  Sign me up!  I'm planning on making a few things for Valentine's Day, so I've spent the last few days poking around the Internet looking for recipes that I deemed adorable yet doable (apparently professors do not share my love of Valentine's Day, because I have 2 papers and a borderline in-san amount of reading to do for this week).  It was super hard to narrow them down, but here's a few that caught my attention. . .

* pictures are from the websites linked below! be sure to click!

Pots de Creme from The Pioneer Woman
Heart Cinnamon Rolls from Cake & Allie
New York Style Chocolate Cheesecake from Emeril
Lofthouse Style Soft Sugar Cookies from Two Peas And Their Pod
Heart Cake from i am baker (this one is just for fun! no way I could pull this off)
Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes from Brandielle via The Pioneer Woman

I've personally made the lava cakes about 15 to 20 times before and can attest to not only their awesomeness but their easiness as well, I swear anyone can make them!  Also, how precious are those heart shaped cinnamon rolls?  Such a cute idea.

Happy Valentine's Day baking!

xx Meg

comfy saturday.

Slept in today, had some apple cinnamon steel cut oats that I put in the slow cooker before I went to bed last night, and now I'm sitting on my couch watching Beautiful Homes on HGTV and drinking a huge mug of black coffee.  This is my kind of day.

Saturdays are my favorite, they're almost always filled with some sort of cooking or baking or both.  There's really not much better to me.  I'm feeling like making some blueberry muffins today, I'm not sure why or how that came into my head.  Especially because for the past 4 days I have had the most intense craving for chocolate cake ever with no time to make some, so I figured I would make one today.  But nope, woke up wanting a really good blueberry muffin.  Weird!

So while I contemplate making blueberry muffins, I'm gonna talk a little about one of my favorite things in the world - food blogs.  Since I discovered their existence about a year and a half ago my cooking life has, I'm not being dramatic, done a complete 180.  I've always watched Food Network, so I got a lot of information from there, but having the resources online often with step by step super, super, suuuuuper detailed recipes is just unmatched.  And the creativity by the food bloggers is out of this world, I'm left sitting in front of my computer with my mouth hanging open saying - HOW?