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# thyme and butter

living for the little things

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## Posts

- [The Best Bits: My March 2026 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/march-2026-favorites/) - a roundup of my favorite things from March 2026. Cross stitching, a new holy-grail mascara, and new Sarah J. Maas books on the horizon!
- [The Make Nine Update: My Crafting Progress So Far This Year](https://thymeandbutter.com/make-nine-update-2026/) - Nine projects, one year. How many things have I worked on in six months? Is it possible to make it to the finish line?
- [The Best Bits: My February 2026 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/february-2026-favorites/) - a roundup of my favorite things from February 2026, from glowy skin to a must-have travel bag, and drooling over Jacob Elordi.
- [The Best Bits: My January 2026 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/january-2026-favorites/) - a roundup of my favorite things from January 2026, from a cooking challenge, to junk journaling, and a Game of Thrones spinoff.
- [The 52 Week Challenge: How To Have Fun with New Years Resolutions](https://thymeandbutter.com/52-week-challenge/) - my favorite way to meet goals without making boring resolutions every year! Get creative and plan your own 52 week challenge, list of ideas included!
- [The Make Nine Edit: My Crafting Plans for 2026](https://thymeandbutter.com/make-nine-edit-2026/) - Starting my #MakeNine2026 journey with nine gorgeous crafting ideas! What will spark your creativity this new year?
- [The Best Bits: My November 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/november-2025-favorites/) - A round up of all my favorite things in the month of November, from 90s sitcoms to tying the knot! Bundle up and get cozy with me!
- [The Best Bits: My October 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/october-2025-favorites/) - a roundup of my favorite things from October 2025, featuring a dystopian time travel show and key lime ice box cake!
- [welcome to thyme and butter!](https://thymeandbutter.com/welcome/) - Hello friends! You've stumbled across thyme and butter, the corner of the internet where I have the pleasure of sharing everything I love! This space is dedicated to celebrating the creative spirit, embracing the beauty of the seasons, and reflecting on little things that make every day meaningful. I'm Jess. For more about me, check
- [The Best Bits: My December 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/december-2025-favorites/) - a roundup of my favorite things from December 2025, from a DIY gingerbread village, to Nespresso lattes, and a book based on Lord of the Flies.
- [The Best Bits: My September 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/september-2025-favorites/) - a roundup of my favorite things from September 2025, from learning to hand-dye yarn, to a Hozier concert, and a whoopie pie festival.
- [The Best Bits: My July 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/july-2025-favorites/) - The Best Bits is a monthly series where I tell you what I’ve been up to! What I’m doing, media I’m loving, and products I recommend! Here’s a fresh batch of favorites for your reading pleasure! READING | Be Ready When The Luck Happens by Ina Garten I started this book on audible a while ago
- [The Best Bits: My August 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/august-2025-favorites/) - The Best Bits is a monthly series where I tell you what I’ve been up to! What I’m doing, media I’m loving, and products I recommend! Here’s a fresh batch of favorites for your reading pleasure! READING | Indie Authors My best friend Emily and I spent a weekend in National Harbor, Maryland this month attending
- [The Summer Almanac: Home, Food, and Simple Pleasures](https://thymeandbutter.com/the-summer-almanac/) - I’ll admit, I’ve always been the type to rank summer last in my list of favorite seasons. I’ve never been a fan of the heat and I get sunburned very easily, so it’s easy to resign myself to staying indoors when the temperatures reach above 80. This year, in spite of that, I’d like to
- [The Best Bits: My May 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/may-2025-favorites/) - The Best Bits is a monthly series where I tell you what I’ve been up to! What I’m doing, media I’m loving, and products I recommend! Here’s a fresh batch of favorites for your reading pleasure! DISCOVERING | Old Fashioned Gelatin Recipes This month we happened across a cookbook called Jiggle! Basically, it's a book
- [The Best Bits: My June 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/june-2025-favorites/) - The Best Bits is a monthly series where I tell you what I’ve been up to! What I’m doing, media I’m loving, and products I recommend! Here’s a fresh batch of favorites for your reading pleasure! READING | The Villa by Rachel Hawkins This was my book club pick for the month and it was a
- [Everything I’ve Been Knitting and Reading This Spring](https://thymeandbutter.com/reading-knitting-spring-2025/) - Recapping the books on my kindle and the knits on my needles this season! Featuring colorful indie dyed yarns and pulitzer prize winners.
- [My 2025 Garden Plan: A (Hopefully) Simple and Sustainable Overhaul!](https://thymeandbutter.com/garden-plan-spring-2025/) - My gardening plans for spring 2025, from vegetable gardens to flower beds. Join me as I build a colorful, low-maintenance space.
- [The Best Bits: My April 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/april-2025-favorites/) - The Best Bits is where I tell you what I’ve been up to! What I’m doing, media I’m loving, and things I recommend! Here’s a fresh batch of favorites for April!
- [Spring Cleaning Made Simple: A Realistic Home Refresh](https://thymeandbutter.com/simple-spring-cleaning/) - Let's breathe new life into your home this season with these realistic spring cleaning tips... even if you're not the Martha Stewart type.
- [The Best Bits: My March 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/march-2025-favorites/) - The Best Bits is a monthly series where I let you know what I’ve been up to! Things I’m doing, media I’m loving, and products I recommend! Here’s a fresh batch of favorites for your reading pleasure! DISCOVERING | Vintage Cookbooks As you might guess, cooking is one of my passions, and that means that
- [The Spring Garden Edit: Flowers to Plant Right Now](https://thymeandbutter.com/spring-garden-edit/) - Looking to add some color to your spring garden? Here are the flowers to plant right now that you can enjoy all season long!
- [The Puppy Essentials Edit: Everything Your New Best Friend Needs](https://thymeandbutter.com/puppy-essentials/) - All the best puppy essentials you need! From yak cheese to stylish food bowls, here's how to give yourself and new buddy a strong and cozy foundation!
- [The Best Bits: My February 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/february-2025-favorites/) - Join me as I share all of my most favorite things from february, from mini scissors to barre classes, pot roasts to wedding dress shopping!
- [The Christmas Cookie Edit: Recipes for Holiday Classics](https://thymeandbutter.com/christmas-cookie-edit/) - Get creative this Christmas with 16 delightful cookie recipes, from nostalgic gingerbread to elegant amaretti. Find the perfect treat for your holiday table!
- [The Cozy Crafting Edit: 16 Crafts to Make as Gifts](https://thymeandbutter.com/cozy-crafting-edit/) - When the temperatures get cooler out there's nothing I love more than curling up with a craft. Over the years I've tried and loved many a craft - cross stitching, knitting, diamond painting, quilting, and beading to name a few. Often times I get a little too excited to start projects and end up with
- [The Best Bits: My October 2024 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/october-2024-favorites/) - The Best Bits is a monthly series where I tell you what I’ve been up to! Things I’m doing, media I’m loving, and products I recommend! Here’s a fresh batch of favorites for your reading pleasure! DISCOVERING | Master Gardener Course Over the summer I applied and interviewed to become a Master Gardener in my
- [Everything I've Been Knitting and Reading This Fall](https://thymeandbutter.com/reads-knits-fall-2024/) - A few years ago I got back into reading, and I mean really back into it! There's been only a small handful of days since 2021 that I haven't picked up a book. My kindle reading streak is over 900 days, and I've read some of my all-time favorite books in the past year or
- [The Best Bits: My November 2024 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/november-2024-favorites/) - The Best Bits is a monthly series where I tell you what I’ve been up to! Things I’m doing, media I’m loving, and products I recommend! Here’s a fresh batch of favorites for your reading pleasure! DISCOVERING | Puppy Ownership We got a dog! Her name is Cherry and she's a three month old Portuguese
- [The Best Bits: My December 2024 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/december-2024-favorites/) - My favorites from December 2024. This post details what I’ve been up to, media I’m loving, recipes I'm cooking, and all the products I recommend this month!
- [11 Intentional Habits to Start in the New Year](https://thymeandbutter.com/new-year-intentional-habits/) - 2025 is the year to make your new year's resolutions work for you. These mindful habits are incredibly impactful when applied your long term goals.
- [The Best Bits: My January 2025 Favorites](https://thymeandbutter.com/january-2025-favorites/) - The Best Bits is a monthly favorites series. I'll tell you all the things I loved in January, from the shows I'm watching to what I'm crafting!
- [Everything I’ve Been Knitting and Reading This Winter](https://thymeandbutter.com/reading-knitting-winter-2025/) - A roundup of all of the books I've been reading, the knitting projects I've been making, and yarn I've been using this season!
- [How to Make a Vintage Ornament Wreath](https://thymeandbutter.com/vintage-ornament-wreath/) - I made a wreath out of my grandma's vintage ornaments.
- [All Eyes On: Nancy Meyers Inspired Coziness](https://thymeandbutter.com/nancy-meyers/) - channel your own Rosehill Cottage!
- [Bar Cart Essentials | Everything You Need for Your Home Bar](https://thymeandbutter.com/bar-cart-essentials/) - all you need to make your mixology dreams come true.

## Pages

- [home](https://thymeandbutter.com/) - thyme + butter is a food and lifestyle blog that inspires seasonal living, home cooking, gardening, crafting, and creating a life well lived.
- [Sample Crafters](https://thymeandbutter.com/samplecrafters/) - thyme and butter is looking for a group of sample crafters to showcase our new yarn colors! If you're a fiber artist that regularly takes photos of your work for your own instagram or ravelry, you will likely be a great fit for our sampling program! Requirements:Submit at least 3 high quality, unfiltered, text-free photos
- [about the author](https://thymeandbutter.com/about/) - All about Jess, the author of thyme + butter.
- [disclosure](https://thymeandbutter.com/disclosure/) - thyme + butter is a personal blog that I write and edit myself, and I occasionally earn income through cash advertising, sponsorships, paid insertions, affiliate links, or other forms of compensation. These partnerships help keep the content flowing and allow me to do what I love... sharing it all with you! Integrity is very important
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## Recipes

- [The BEST Dark Chocolate Cake I've Ever Made](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/best-dark-chocolate-cake/) - The perfect dark chocolate cake for all cocoa lovers! Rich, moist, and decadent, you don't want to miss this recipe.
- [The Best Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs (Reece's Dupe!)](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/chocolate-peanut-butter-eggs-reeces-dupe/) - Chocolate peanut butter eggs, a classic springtime treat that might just be better than that one famous brand 😉
- [It's a Fondue Party! (Cheese Fondue for Six)](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/cheese-fondue/) - It's a fondue party! Melt together gruyère, garlic, and white wine, then gather your cheese-loving friends and family and get to dippin'!
- [My Favorite Molasses Cookies](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/favorite-molasses-cookies/) - These soft and chewy molasses are the perfect sweet treat for fall and winter. Add them to your holiday cookie boxes and they'll be requested every year!
- [Roasted Tomato Pie with Buttermilk Biscuit Crust](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/roasted-tomato-pie/) - Tomato Pie is a classic summer staple. Make it from the freshest tomatoes you can find, and you’ll have the best dish at the picnic!
- [Two Fresh Picked, Small Batch Jam Recipes (Strawberry + Rhubarb)](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/small-batch-jam-strawberry-rhubarb/) - I was minding my own business the other day when I stumbled across a local pick-your-own strawberry patch just a few miles from home, and for some reason I just couldn't get it out of my mind. So after work, I dropped what I was doing and ran over before the evening rain started, crouched
- [My Tried and True Buttermilk Biscuits](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/buttermilk-biscuits/) - Quick and easy buttermilk biscuits. Make these, and no matter where you’re from, you’ll be making a southern granny proud!
- [A Lemon Pie Worth Writing Home About](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/lemon-buttermilk-pie/) - When I sought out a lemon dessert recipe that was more than just okay for a friend’s birthday, I felt called to look beyond lemon meringue. I wanted a dessert that was the best a lemon could offer. Something tart, not too sweet, something that packed a punch and was memorable. That was when I found this
- [The Grand Roast Beef Sandwich with Onion Jam](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/grand-america-roast-beef-sandwich/) - This recipe is one of our weeknight favorites! It brings with it a polarizing ingredient (bleu cheese), of which I find to be nonnegotiable, but another member of my household would tell you that you can sub for another cheese that you prefer, gouda most specifically (sacrilege, in my opinion!) I first had this sandwich
- [Life Changing Tuna Salad](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/tuna-salad/) - Tuna is an incredibly versatile yet totally polarizing fish. There aren’t many other meats that can be served raw in five star restaurants and also included with crackers in a child’s lunchbox. Tuna is a picnic and sandwich staple, yet it’s jokingly (or maybe seriously) forbidden from planes and networking functions. People generally feel one
- [Ultimate Meat Lasagna with Béschamel Sauce](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/ultimate-lasagna/) - There are few foods more comforting than lasagna! Admittedly, I spent a lot of my life not really trying to make a killer lasagna because it is just so easy to pick one up in the freezer section at the grocery store, but this one really does blow store bought out of the water. You've
- [New York Style Cheesecake with a Pumpkin Pie Swirl](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/pumpkin-pie-cheesecake/) - This cheesecake is based on my mom’s recipe, one she’s been making as long as I can remember. I think one would consider it a New York style cheesecake, and she often serves it with a cherry topping. It’s thick and rich, and David likes that it’s sturdy enough to be eaten as a handheld
- [A Sticky Toffee Pudding to Warm Your Soul](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/sticky-toffee-pudding/) - This classic Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe is rich, moist, and drenched in a luscious toffee sauce. It's the perfect cozy dessert for winter!
- [Creamy Mushroom Soup with Brandy and Sage](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/creamy-mushroom-soup/) - Today we’re making wild mushroom soup, inspired by a dish from the Jean Bonnet Tavern in Bedford, PA. I knew instantly upon tasting their soup that I had to try to replicate it myself. While I don’t think I’ll quite put ole Jean Bonnet out of business, this soup is a very close “dupe.” Unlike
- [The Perfect Summer Salad with Melon and Prosciutto](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/melon-prosciutto-salad/) - Keep things simple with a delicious summer salad that is the perfect blend of sweet, salty, herbaceous, and fresh! The inspiration for this dish came from some of the fairly complicated summer salads I kept seeing on Pinterest. You know the ones: grilling, marinating, brûléeing, and driving out of town to find a handful of
- [Meghan Markle's Decadent Pumpkin Fondue](https://thymeandbutter.com/recipes/meghan-markle-pumpkin-fondue/) - This pumpkin fondue, from Meghan Markle's blog The Tig is deliciously autumnal and royally cheesy!

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