lemon

Savor the taste of summer any time of the year with these bright and fragrant Strawberry Lemon Scones. Light and tender scones are given the summer treatment in this recipe, full of the fresh flavors of strawberries and lemon and topped with a tangy lemon glaze. I’ve given a lot of thought over whether I would talk about my blogging break or whether I would just ignore it. It’s kind of the elephant in the room at this point, because…

Lemon sugar scones are light and tender, with a delicate and natural lemon flavor. Perfect for nibbling alongside your favorite cup of tea. Do you know what the most rewarding part of having a recipe blog is? It’s when someone tells you that they’ve made your recipe and more than that, they loved it!  This is one of the best feelings in the world. Serious warm fuzzies! Recently I had the pleasure of someone stopping me at the grocery store…

It’s hard to believe that 4 ingredients and around 20 minutes will yield these soft, melt in your mouth, buttery lemon crinkle cookies. Lemon crinkle cookies are the sunny sister to the Mint Middle Fudge Crinkles  I posted a few weeks ago.  Bright lemony flavor shines in these soft and chewy cookies. Cheerful yellow cookie peeks out of the powdered sugar covered cracks along the outside, giving these cookies their characteristic crinkle appearance.  These cookies make a great cake mix…

Part pie, part coffee cake. Elegant, easy, and incredibly versatile. These bold and bright flavored Lemon Poppy Seed Blueberry Squares are a great new flavor variation of my popular Cherry Almond Squares. Sometimes I feel like my entire life would be better, could be better, if I spent more time in books. Now, since I work at a library I don’t mean just spend more time in books, because I am literally eye high in rooms full of books every…

Fancy a shandy? I’ll be honest, it seems to be more of a European drink. When I mention shandy to my friends I get one of two reactions; a confused look or a turned up nose.  I’m not really sure why the bad rap. Maybe because the version Americans have been exposed to the most are the mass manufactured, pre-bottled, come in a 6-pack variety.  I’ve had some of that and let me tell you it almost ruined shandy for…

As a newlywed, I remember thinking that Easter was the easiest and therefore, most joyful holiday. You wake up and there are some eggs hidden around, put on your stylish new Easter dress and go to church. After an uplifting sermon, go back to your mom’s and enjoy a huge Easter feast. Later, on the drive home think to yourself, “ What a lovely relaxing day.” Then I had four kids. Yeah, I quickly realized that I’d been living in…