Lemon Madeleines
Crisp and buttery with a delicate center, these lemon madeleines are delicious. There is a reason these light as air cakes are still beloved nearly two hundred ...
Category: Food
Spaghetti Carbonara
Sometimes it feels like there is always something crazy going on in our house. I had to take a little break from blogging because we had a family wide stomach b...
Shortbread Sweeties
Sometimes I daydream about ingredients and these cookies were something I had been dreaming about for a little while. I wanted to use a pretty poured fondant ic...
Panko and Herb Crusted Salmon
Salmon is full of flavor and it makes a wonderful meal because it cooks so quickly. So for my second recipe in my series on weeknight dinners, I am serving up a...
Parmesan Crusted Chicken Piccata
Dinner is more than a meal in our house. It’s a moment to slow down and connect. It also happens to be my favorite time of the day. Gathered around our li...
Celebrating Maison McCauley’s Second Anniversary
“One day you will look back and see all along you were blooming.” Morgan Harper Nichols This week, I am celebrating the second anniversary of my blo...
A Buttercream Butterfly Garden
We are not ones to let a little thing called January get in the way of celebrating and imagining some summer birthday fun. Each year when the first frost comes ...
The Joy of Gingerbread
Put a pastry bag with icing in my hand and there is a deep sense of joy that comes over me. It doesn’t matter how crazy messy my kitchen looks or how many thing...
Thanksgiving Sides: Cranberry and Pear Holiday Salad
When I was in law school Thanksgiving always signaled the count down to final exams, so time for baking and making Thanksgiving sides was limited. However, this...
Thanksgiving Sides: Grand Marnier Cranberry Sauce
Cranberry sauce is more than a condiment in our house; it is a celebrated side dish. My family’s recipe comes from an old Houston Chronicle recipe that ha...