Med School How-To: Staying Organized While Applying

As my very first med school post (yay!), I decided to share what I did to stay organized during my medical school application cycle. Let me start off by saying that I did a LOT of research before applying; researching specific schools, seeking advice from other applications, sifting through pages upon pages of pre-med forums and …

Official Blog Relaunch as Spoonful of Sugar

Hi guys! I hope everyone had an amazing Chrismakwanza and happy New Year. Wow, what a whirlwind the past few months have been. I decided to take a break from my blog to re-work it a little, focus on medical school applications and finish up my last semester of graduate school. When I first started my …

Salted Caramel Apple Pie

There are many things I love about Michigan, but I'd have to say the perfect fall weather takes the cake (er...pie). Although fall in Michigan lasts about three minutes (a sweet spot between sweltering September and an early November snowfall), the crisp weather and colorful leaves in Ann Arbor make me want to jump into …

Overnight Cinnamon Rolls

Literally can we just take a moment of silence for these glorious cinnamon rolls? My brother and I (well, mostly me) took a stab at making fluffy, ooey, gooey, gigantic cinnamon rolls this weekend because we had the house to ourselves. AKA we could make as big of a mess as we wanted with no mom around …

The Only Banana Bread Recipe You’ll Ever Need

  If you're like me, you always overestimate how many bananas you'll eat in a week. This leaves me with a freezer full of overripe bananas at all times, just begging to be made into banana bread! I like my banana bread to be an easy, one-bowl recipe that doesn't require waiting for butter to …

Triple Berry Almond + Oat Crisp

My favorite thing about summer produce is...wait, do people REALLY love summer produce enough to have a favorite thing? Well, maybe most normal people don't, but I sure do! I go crazy for all the cheap summer berries. Strawberries 3 for $4? Two for $3 pints of blueberries?! I (literally) eat it up. I'm pretty …

Shakshuka with Spinach and Feta

Say it with me now people: SHOCK-SHOO-KA. I have seen this traditional northern African dish all over the place recently, and I decided to give it a try today on a lazy Sunday morning. Honestly, it's one of those things you can make with whatever you have in your fridge: mushrooms, kale, tomatoes, cheese, whatever …

(Almost) One-Pan Chicken Fajita Pasta

People. Get ready. This is a warm, comforting, and incredibly easy way to get your Mexican food fix this weekend. I'm talkin' veggies, pasta, sauce and cheesy goodness all wrapped up into a nearly one pan dish! Let's dig in, shall we? First things first: whip up a batch of homemade fajita seasoning. I stopped …

Speculoos Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies

Soooo sorry I have been M.I.A for a few weeks, I've had to put my cooking on the back burner (terrible pun, I know) to focus on finals. But luckily all that silly school business is over, and I can get back to what I love doing most: making a mess in the kitchen. Today …

I Tried Blue Apron for a Week and Here’s How it Went

It's been a minute since I've posted. But it's because I've been so busy cooking up a storm with my Blue Apron subscription, duh! I hear about these ingredient delivery services like Plated, Hello Fresh and Blue Apron ALL THE TIME.  And to be honest, I used to low-key judge people who used them. They …