welcome to the cottage…
My name is Ariana
You’ll usually find me in the kitchen, making food for the people I love. I’m the wife of one and the mother of three (four if you count my sourdough starter). Join me as I take my time making delicious, from-scratch food for my friends and family.
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Simple Four-Ingredient Lemon Curd
Lemon curd? Well that doesn’t sound appetizing. Maybe a history lesson will change your mind? The first recorded recipe for “lemon curd” was in England in 1844 in The Lady’s Own Cookery Book by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury. At that time, lemon juice was used…
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Classic Buttermilk Pancakes
Corn flour, dextrose, modified milk ingredients, mono calcium phosphate, potassium bicarbonate, sunset yellow. Do you know what any of that is? I sure don’t! But those are just some of the ingredients in a pancake mix you’d find at the grocery store. Skip the chemicals,…
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Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf
Confession: as a child, I didn’t like meatloaf. But that all changed one fateful day in my early-twenties. It had been a long day, I was nearing the end of a fourteen hour shift baking at the little French restaurant I worked at. One of…
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Traditional Orange Pudding
Nana and Papa’s house. The spare bedroom filled with bunnies. Nana reading us The Velveteen Rabbit and Love You Forever. Sneaking a peek at Nana, to see if it made her tear up. Every Sunday, pancakes after church. Apple pancakes sprinkled with sugar. Playing dress…