Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Kicking Off Summer I always grew up thinking of Memorial Day Weekend as the kickoff to summer. Paradoxically, the weather in San Diego is usually pretty miserable during this time and during most of May and June. We have what’s called May Gray and June Gloom. Lots of cloudy, dreary overcast skies with rain and chilly winds. Not what most people probably think of when they think Southern California....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Pantry & Refrigerator Staples I made a TJ’s run yesterday and picked up a few staples I see other bloggers sharing what they have in their cupboards, refrigerators, and what they keep on hand. So I figured it was mu turn to share. Things I always have on hand: Sugars/Sweeteners (white, brown, agave, maple syrup, honey, stevia ) Chocolate (chips, barks, bars, cocoa powder, white, milk, dark) Nuts (almonds, cashews) & Seeds (chia, hemp) With nuts and chocolate you can make...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Pool Afternoon Pictures, Tropical Fruit Hi Friends! Don’t adjust your dial, this is a second post from me today. I figure all the cool girls post twice a day and since I am on vacation and have a little extra time on my hands, I would, too. I picked up some fresh, local papaya today I love Fresh Local Pineapple , more so than papaya, but no complaints since we ate the whole tub in 10 minutes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Soups, Salads, Dips, & Savory Recipes Last week I posted about the Delicious Desserts and although I naturally gravitate to sweet over savory, it’s not fair to neglect savory in my weekly roundup of great food and recipes I’ve seen in the sphere. Hopefully there’s something for everyone here: Soup, Salads, Dips, Savory Fare Enjoy! Jenna’s Coconut Curried Sweet Potato Soup Leanne’s Light Quinoa and Avocado Tabbouleh Verrines...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Here are this week’s Thursday Things : I need a free-standing storage unit for my living/family room area for dishes, books, knick-knacks, and just stuff. Between a stand mixer, a Vita-Mix, and enough random little plates to start my own thrift shop some days, my kitchen storage area is maxed out. I am storing my books and cookbooks in boxes and in random parts of my house and they’re not all in one place because I don’t have proper shelving and storage....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Vanilla Bean Caramel Blondies Bars are my favorite dessert to make because they’re so fast and easy. No dough to chill or individual cookies to form. For these very soft, slightly chewy, buttery blondies that are topped with the most amazing vanilla bean-infused caramel glaze, I called upon my trusty blondie base . When I want an easy, fuss-free, one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that I know everyone will love, it’s my go-to ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes 15 Favorite Cream Cheese Recipes Cream Cheese is such a versatile ingredient and one I love to use and bake with. PHILADELPHIA sets the standard in cream cheese and has been making the country’s most popular cream cheese since 1872 What sets it apart from other brands: Fresh Local Milk and Real Wholesome Cream – Milk sourced from dairy farmers local to where the cream cheese is made, and combined with real, wholesome cream creates a deliciously fresh-tasting cream cheese...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes 35 National Peanut Day Recipes Today is National Peanut Day and it’s no secret, I am a peanut butter fanatic. In honor of the day, here are 35 of my favorite recipes that incorporate peanuts or peanut butter. Homemade Peanut Butter (vegan if plain peanuts are used, GF) – Ready in 5 minutes and you have not lived until you’ve made your own Savory Peanut Butter Recipes...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Asiago Chicken and Pasta Asiago Chicken Pasta — EASY comfort food to feed a crowd that’s ready in 25 minutes!! Tender chicken and penne pasta with red peppers, green beans, and everything is coated with Asiago CHEESE for the family dinner win!! Quick Asiago Pasta Recipe Hello, family-friendly comfort food that’s ready in 25 minutes. The chicken and pasta are tender and al dente, the peppers and green beans are crisp-tender, and everything is coated in rich and savory Asiago cheese....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Crunch That Vegan Granola This has been a surreal day, and not in a good way . We’ll just keep it at that. When things are sorted and even I know what’s going on, I’ll be sure and let everyone know. The highlight of the food day was the dinner raw veggies, but I admit, I had to force down what little I ate today....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Juicy & Refreshing Thanks for the good suggestions from my post yesterday about my juicer dilema . I think I’m going with the Mack Daddy, but am going to mull it over for awhile longer… Onto the eats. Here’s last night’s Raw Veggie Love: *Broc *B.S. *Jicama *Red Peppers *Carrots *Juice of half an orange, agave, and crack black I’ve also really been enjoying watermelon lately....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookies {Copycat} Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe 🍪 If you’ve always wanted to recreate Mrs. Fields cookies at home, this recipe works beautifully. Bonus: this recipe will save you a trip to the mall! Mrs. Fields Cookie Recipe I have nearly 40 recipes for chocolate chip cookies from traditional versions to cream cheese to pumpkin . But I’ve never attempted to recreate Mrs....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peanut Butter Butterscotch Bars Peanut butter and butterscotch is such an awesome flavor combination, and so under-used. One of my favorite peanut butter cookie recipes is in my cookbook and it’s a peanut butter-butterscotch cookie. I was craving something with butterscotch so I made these easy, no-mixer, soft, chewy bars. They begin like blondies with melted butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla. Add peanut butter, flour, and quick-cook oats, which lend incredible texture and chewiness to the otherwise soft, buttery bars....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Savory Pumpkin, Potato, and Carrot Soup, Christmas Stuff Earlier Each Year Hi Friends! How has your week been so far? It got super nice here after a couple weeks of cooler temps and rain. As in, yesterday it was in the mid 80s and hot and today looks like more of that. I went for a run in my sports bra and shorts. I love the warm weather and crystal clear blue skies....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Pies The Best and The Easiest Classic Crème Brûlée Classic Crème Brûlée Recipe — This is an easy crème brûlée that everyone can make, doesn’t require a candy thermometer or stand mixer, and isn’t doctored up with specialty flavorings. Easy Crème Brûlée Recipe After five years of blogging and a couple cookbooks, many days I feel like I’ve made every dessert there is. But I recently asked my family, “If you could have any dessert under the sun, what would it be?...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes The Best Raspberry Bread The Best Raspberry Bread – There are almost more raspberries than bread in my recipe for the BEST RASPBERRY BREAD!! You’ll want to make it over and over because it’s super soft and just bursting with juicy berries!! Easy Raspberry Bread Recipe I have 40+ recipes for banana bread , cherry bread , blueberry bread , peach mango bread , and pineapple bread ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes The Sights From Here, Golden Silence It’s impossible for me to be totally wordless on what many call Wordless Wednesday’s, but I thought I’d show you some of the sights around my life… My San Diego neighborhood 15 minutes ago… They look like dried blueberries The irony of Roses + Beware of Dog just struck me It’s interesting that a psychic is ‘On Duty’....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Vegan Mini-Chocolate Chip Mini-Muffins Mini food is so poppable . One after the other, down they go. That darn mini food. But it’s so small that the calories don’t even count. Exactly. I’m so happy with how these little puffballs turned out. They’re soft, springy, bouncy like little trampolines, and they’re vegan. Sometimes vegan baked goods, especially muffins or cakes, are terribly dense. Lead balloons come to mind....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Zucchini Noodles & Peanut Sauce, Mailbox Goodies, Popularity Despite it being the first real week back at the grind in the swing of things after the holidays, I think the week’s been going by really fast. What do you think? What have you been up to? I taught yoga last night as I mentioned I would be doing, and then met up with a couple new friends....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes 15 Red White and Blue Recipes It’s almost the Fourth of July and although I haven’t made any adorable festive food that’s red , white, and blue all in one, I do have recipes from each color. If only I was as prepared for the holiday as Martha is. Martha Stewart’s Red White and Blue Berry Trifle My Red Recipes Strawberries and Cream Smoothie (vegan, GF)...