Gatlin’s BBQ

Gatlin’s, a Houston favorite, has barbeque so good you’ll elbow your family for the last rib. Worth it!

Gatlin's, a Houston favorite, has barbeque so good you'll elbow your family for the last rib. Worth it!

What’s this? Another post? Without a 6 month interval? Be still my heart!

In all seriousness, we do feel bad about the reduced volume of posts. But as explained, our little one takes up quite a bit of our time. But that doesn’t mean that we’re giving up on good food! In fact, I would say that we actually go out to dinner more now than before the little bun showed up. Maybe not to the nice formal restaurants, but luckily, Houston has tons of great food spanning all kinds of cuisines and levels of fanciness. Including our pick for the best BBQ in Houston: Gatlin’s.

BTW, the picture above shows how very enthusiastic our little one was about the ribs. I mean. Dang. I was trying to get a shot WITHOUT her hand in the photo, but, well, here we are. The kiddo LOVED Gatlin’s. And so do we, so hey, good times!

Gatlin's, a Houston favorite, has barbeque so good you'll elbow your family for the last rib. Worth it!

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20
Nov
2018

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cupcakes with Brown Butter Chai Frosting

categories: Dessert

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cupcakes with Brown Butter Chai Frosting combine your favorite fall flavors in one rich and perfectly spiced dessert.

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cupcakes with Brown Butter Chai Frosting combine your favorite fall flavors in one rich and perfectly spiced dessert.

Recently I was hunting for my own recipe for Chewy Pumpkin Molasses Cookies and pulled up that page on our blog, from early November 2016. I read the first few sentences and realized my life is, in fact, quite cyclical. The post asks, “Are you sick of pumpkin recipes yet? Please say no!” And that’s exactly how I feel posting this recipe for Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cupcakes with Brown Butter Chai Frosting in mid-November, two years later.

Are you sick of pumpkin yet? I really hope not!

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cupcakes with Brown Butter Chai Frosting combine your favorite fall flavors in one rich and perfectly spiced dessert.

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08
Oct
2018

Salted Caramel Peanut Cracker Stacker Bars

categories: Dessert

Salted Caramel Peanut Cracker Stacker Bars – yep, that’s a mouthful! In a very delicious, decadent, no-bake, easy kinda way!

Salted Caramel Peanut Cracker Stacker Bars - yep, that's a mouthful! In a very delicious, decadent, no-bake, easy kinda way! Have you ever tasted a dessert from a little local bakery and been like, I want to eat this all – the – time? This is magic! This is heaven! This is caramel, chocolate, peanut, all my favorite things in one!

AND THEN THE BAKERY SHUTS DOWN?!?!

I KNOW!!! Yep, been there. Eaten the delicious bars. Cried when I couldn’t get them anymore.

Wiped my tears and figured out how to make them on my own.

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18
Jun
2018

Frozen Peach and Ginger Cocktail

categories: Cocktails

This Frozen Peach and Ginger Cocktail is summer in a glass…a boozy, frosty, fruity, delicious glass.

This Frozen Peach and Ginger Cocktail is summer in a glass...a boozy, frosty, fruity, delicious glass.

CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THE RECIPE

Friends!! Can I still call you friends, even if I have been MIA from the internet for the past 8 months? Please say we’re still friends!

OK, do I have to win back your friendship a little bit? Honestly I feel very badly about the hiatus! I love this little corner of the internet, and pressing “pause” on Ready to Yumble has been the source of much sighing. (Ask Ross. I literally sighed a lot, out loud, to the point of being obnoxious.) But after a little Sticky Bun joined our family, and I went back to work in the fall, well, things got pretty crazy around here. Don’t get me wrong – we still cook, and bake, and I was super proud of a homemade funfetti cake with sprinkles out the wazoo (← technical baking term) that I made for our little one’s first birthday. But finding time to photograph, and edit those photographs, and sit down to write a post, and do all the technical back-end stuff no one sees, well…it kept getting pushed to the back burner. (← technical baking pun)

So I’ve decided we may not be able to blog as regularly as we used to, but that doesn’t mean we have to call it quits. It will just be a tad, well, irregular. If you’re the kind of person who wants to try out a new recipe every Monday….I applaud you, and may I refer you to our well-stocked recipe index? That should hold you for a while.

Now, to win you back! I’m pretty sure the way to everyone’s heart is SUMMER FRUIT + FROSTY BEVERAGE + BOOZE, so I bring you…the Frozen Peach and Ginger Cocktail!

I’m gonna go ahead and use confetti for this one. ???

This Frozen Peach and Ginger Cocktail is summer in a glass...a boozy, frosty, fruity, delicious glass.

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08
Sep
2017

Circus Animal Cookie Truffles

categories: Dessert

Circus Animal Cookie Truffles are a fun and colorful no-bake dessert, with a pink-and-white layered surprise inside!

Circus Animal Cookie Truffles are a fun and colorful no-bake dessert, with a pink-and-white layered surprise inside!

CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THE RECIPE

Well, as most of the world has heard, Houston has had a couple rough weeks. A really bad dude named Harvey flooded our beautiful city with over 50 inches of rain. More rain than the United States has ever measured from a single storm. Enough rain that the National Weather Service had to add a new color to its rainfall maps. So much rain that the water will not recede from certain neighborhoods for weeks. Your Ready to Yumble crew was VERY thankful to make it safely through the storm, but with somewhere around 50,000 homes flooded, we all have friends and family with serious damage. Yeah, “rough” is probably an understatement.

So why are we blogging about something as frivolous as Circus Animal Cookie Truffles? It may sound silly, but when I’m feeling overwhelmed by my problems, it helps me to take a mental break by reading something that is, in fact, totally frivolous. Food blogs, especially baking blogs, became a safe haven for me. So here’s our small contribution for anyone who needs a quick mental vacation. There’s color! Sprinkles! Sugar! They’re a no-bake, kid-friendly, and totally doable pick-me-up – something we all need right now.

Circus Animal Cookie Truffles are a fun and colorful no-bake dessert, with a pink-and-white layered surprise inside!

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