top 5 tuesday: Recipes

Today's top 5 theme was right up my alley! My top 5 recipes!

1. Appetizer

Blue Cheese and Walnut Dip, it is so easy and so so yummy!

2. Side Dish

Caramelized Brussels Sprouts, I made these for thanksgiving and nixed the bacon because we have vegetarians in the family. They are amazing and addicting.

3. Main Dish

Tonight I roasted a chicken and it was literally the best idea I've had in a long time. It was sooo easy and super delicious. You all should try it some time! I based it off of a recipe from sparkling ink but didn't have any lemons so I just did with out them.

4. Dessert

If you make one of these recipes, it should be this one. These strawberry shortcake cookies are wonderful. Last summer I think I made these at least once every 2 weeks, I couldn't get enough.

5. Drink
I don't really have any good drink recipes. We usually drink sangria and don't really base it off of a recipe, just pour some wine in, add ginger ale and whatever fruit we have.

hope you enjoyed some of my favorite recipes. I would love to hear what some of yours are!

fall bucket list, updated

fall sandwich

recently I made a bucket list for fall of things I wanted to make. I have tried to make none of them to be quite honest. Culinary school has gotten the best of me and when I'm not doing homework for that I'm practicing midterms for my classes,and when I'm not doing that my mother is requesting me to make things like gnocchi and soup that I've brought home from class and we both have loved. However I'm hoping that will change this weekend because I can't put off making this sandwich any longer, I think I've read the post about it 15 times and I just cant take it anymore. It's officially moved to the top of my list of things to make this fall and it allows me to make the french bread I so loved eating and making in foundations of baking a few weeks ago. Keep your eyes open for more updates on my bucket list as I hope to continue to cross things off in the few upcoming weeks.

--random note I've started collecting every food magazine that is anyway holiday/thanksgiving related and started making lists of things I want to add to our standard thanksgiving repertoire.

-- only 3 more followers until a giveaway!!

fall bucket list

I've seen this bucketlist everywhere on the internet since the start of september and as much as I always loved making monthly bucket lists on here with these huge goals I never really accomplished, I've decided to mix it up. I've made seasonal bucket lists with recipes I want to make during each season. So far I have recipes saved on google docs and notecards with the recipes written out, once I have all of them collected I'll put them together in a binder I decorated and hopefully use every year after this. So here's some of what I'm hoping to make this fall:

- whoopie pies
- my grandmother's pumpkin bread
- pumkin cream cheese muffins (like the starbucks ones)
- cinnamon pull apart bread
- applesauce
- whole wheat banana bread
- spiced applesauce cake

my goal is to share the recipes with you as I try them out, these are just a few of the ones on my list. I'd love to hear what your favorite thing to make is in the fall!