The Garden Café

Kaitlyn

Iced Oatmeal Cookie Bars

recipe, the cottage

July 19, 2024

I’m not really a baker. I have a tendency to be lazy when I cook, modifying recipes to be as easy as possible, and I’m embarrassed to say it travels into my baking methods as well. These oatmeal cookies are perfect for the bakers who are lazy like me, who want a soft and chewy cookie without having to put any effort in! It takes about 15min to make the batter, and it makes a whole 9×13 pan of cookies to share.

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Priorities

the café

July 15, 2024

Here in the modern U.S., many of us live in an environment of traffic, vibrant colors, quick captions, marketing around every corner, phones chiming and ringing, people being accustomed to quick replies, same-day shipping, instant gratification, billboards lining every highway, short and loud content, “the next big thing” and yearly upgrades, and regular activities or appointments. There are so many things to fill our time with and spend our energy on, and if we’re not careful, it’s more than easy to become swept up in the current.

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The Bored Box

the garden

March 16, 2020

Growing up, there were naturally a slew of words that my parents taught my siblings and I not to say. One of them, however, is rarely banned in households, and that is the word “bored.” Sure, it wasn’t actually banned in our home, either, but we were supposed to stay creative and play, finding something to do, or else Mom would say she’d give us more math to do. Lol

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