Hi, I’m Annie!


I’m a later-in-life stay at home mom to a teenage son and infant baby girl. I live in a little cottage on the river in the far north of Idaho. I am a seeker of Beauty and lover of old things. Join me as I share comfort food, cozy homemaking and rustic gardening.

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Small white plate with strawberry thumbprint cookies.
Cookies | Recipes

Strawberry Thumbprint Cookies

These Strawberry Thumbprint cookies are a buttery shortbread type cookie flavored with vanilla and topped with strawberry jam. The melt in your mouth vanilla cookie and sweet strawberry jam are a match made in heaven. A perfect pairing with your favorite afternoon tea or coffee. I thought it would be fun to play around with…

Whole chicken in a pot with celery. carrots, onions and garlic for making chicken broth.
Recipes | Soup

Homemade Chicken Broth

Homemade chicken broth can be used for so many different recipes in the kitchen from the obvious soups to flavoring rice and beans while they are cooking. This recipe for chicken broth makes a golden, rich, nourishing broth that is perfect for whatever recipe broth is called for. Not only is it nourishing and delicious…

Freshly baked sourdough bagels, some topped with flaky salt and some topped with an everything bagel topping.
Breads | Recipes | Sourdough

Sourdough Bagels

Making sourdough bagels used intimidate me so it took me quite awhile to even attempt making them. A few years ago I finally decided to play around with making them and quickly found it was so much easier than I expected. And on top of that, they were some of the best bagels I had…

Plate of freshly baked snickerdoodle cookies.
Cookies | Recipes

Snickerdoodles

One of my favorite cookies of all time are Snickerdoodles. I actually remember the first time I had one as a small child. My mom was talking about how she was going to bake Snickerdoodles and I had no clue what she meant. I asked her what a Snickerdoodle was. She explained to me that…

Freshly baked apple strudel.
Pie | Recipes

Apple Strudel

This past week we took a little two night trip over to Washington state to a little town nestled in the Cascade Mountains. Leavenworth is a charming Bavarian village that makes you feel like you stepped into the German Alps. Being in a Bavarian village inspired me to bake something German so I thought I…