Maple Monday

Hello! You’ve stumbled across my blog and I’m eternally grateful. Let’s sit down, get to know each other, and then you can decide if you want to stick around for the ride.

Pour up a cup of coffee, or get your kettle started because this is going to be a long, thoughtful, rambling story of inspiration.

My name is Caitlin and I’m a 24 year old coming to terms with the fact that I was put on this Earth to bake and host and eat. My goal is to share some great recipes and hosting tips so you can feel like the Martha Stewart of your friend group.

Growing up wanting a Hamptons life like Ina Garten with the hydrangeas and clean kitchen led me here. Now, as an adult, I love hosting and cooking for the ones I love.

*Insert “store bought is fine” joke here*

Something you should know about me is that I appreciate the slow life. If it were up to me, I’d write all of these recipes down and pass them around but unfortunately, I have a small friend group, and we all live on TikTok.

Hopefully by the time some of you see this, I have a wealth of foodstagram worthy pictures and a built out about page, but for now I’ll leave you with my inspiration.

You’ll find the coziest recipes on here that are special enough for Friendsgiving but easy enough for Thursday night. Slow down on your weekends, go buy some flowers and bake for a few hours. There’s too little time in this life to let cooking and music and snuggling pass by.

You won’t find recipes for green juice here. If that’s your thing, I applaud you. What you will find (I hope) is some encouragement to set aside some time and create something you’re really proud of (and that tastes good).

I will leave you with my idea of a Maple Monday, if this sounds like your vibe I invite you to stick around and check things out.

It’s a three day weekend, you slept in but it’s still a little early. You wake up to the smell of coffee and cinnamon rolls. Normally, you’re more of a savory breakfast gal, but today is rainy and gray and the scent wraps around like a hug. The windows are foggy but you have candles lit and the light from them makes everything glow. Your coffee is just the right temperature and your fridge is full. Nothing on the calendar but relaxing and reading.

Maple Mondays are the complete opposite of a Scary Sunday.