Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Being Practical Some days are all about just getting things done and being practical. Let me count the ways… Being Practical #1: Grocery shopping and stocking up on some produce for the weekend Being Practical #2: Grapes were on sale for $1.99/pound. Sure beats the $3.99/pound they were earlier in the week when I had picked up a bunch only to realize at checkout they were going to be $9....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Better-Than-Takeout Sticky Chicken Better-Than-Takeout Sticky Chicken — 🍗🥢🧡 Stop calling for takeout or going to the mall food court and make this AMAZING sticky chicken at home in 15 minutes!! So EASY with the perfect balance of sweet and spicy with plenty of sticky sauce! Better-Than-Takeout Sticky Chicken Love Sticky Chicken? Sticky Chicken Ingredients How to Make Sticky Chicken Recipe FAQs Tips for the Best Asian Sticky Sauce What to Serve with Sticky Asian Chicken Better-Than-Takeout Sticky Chicken Recipe More Easy Asian Chicken Recipes: Better-Than-Takeout Sticky Chicken If I’m walking by the food court in the mall and I can snag a free sample of sticky chicken, I do a little happy dance inside....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Chicken Mole Enchiladas Chicken Mole Enchiladas — Lightly fried corn tortillas are stuffed with chicken, rolled up, and smothered in rich mole sauce for the best chicken mole enchiladas! A classic, Mexican-inspired family favorite comfort food recipe made FAST and EASY! A shortcut mole recipe that doctors up store bought mole is provided if you don’t want to make homemade mole. Chicken Mole Enchiladas Recipe These easy chicken mole enchiladas are filled with tender chicken, smothered in richly flavored mole sauce , then topped with lettuce, tomato, queso fresco, sour cream, cilantro, and onion....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Ice Cream & Frozen Treats Chocolate Chip Cookie Chocolate Lasagna Decadent Chocolate Lasagna — 🤎🍫 A chocolate chip cookie base topped with cream cheese, chocolate pudding, whipped topping, and mini chocolate chips!! An EASY layered dessert that tastes so AMAZING!! Easy Chocolate Lasagna Recipe Chocolate Lasagna Ingredients How to Make Chocolate Lasagna Recipe FAQs Tips for Making Chocolate Lasagna Recipe Video Tutorial Chocolate Chip Cookie Chocolate Lasagna Recipe More Chocolate Pudding Desserts: Easy Chocolate Lasagna Recipe Chocolate lasagna is an easy, almost no-bake dessert that has so many fabulous layers and textures....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies I am so excited to finally reveal this post! I’ve had this post written for about 3 weeks. Since even before my photography trip to Mexico City And even before I announced that we were moving And before we moved into our new house this past week. These cookies are long gone. But they are such great little memories....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Hacked Edited to Add: Things appear to be back up and running with my blog. It has been a scary and stressful 24 hours but it appears I was able to get all my data and posts back. Let’s talk about more fun things, like Baking Rules , my last post that occurred moments before the fiasco. Or the Manna Bread Giveaway I started...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Homemade Guacamole, Found a Dress, Parking Perils Hi Friends! How was your weekend? Mine was a blur. I worked, I spent time with the fam, and I may have gone to the mall. Twice. See, the first time I went on Saturday afternoon, it took me 45 minutes to find a parking spot! Nothing like cutting into my very brief time window I had carved out for my dress-finding mission....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Mini Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins Mini Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins — Easy, no mixer recipe for the SOFTEST, moistest, most ADORABLE little muffins ever!! Rich PUMPKIN flavor and CHOCOLATE in every bite!! Mini Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips Mini muffins are just so poppable. I really believe muffins taste better when they’re in mini form. And of course the calories don’t count then either....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Mississippi Mud Pie Bars Chocolate Mud Pie Bars — An EASY, almost no-bake dessert with a chocolate chip cookie base, chocolate pudding, sweetened cream cheese, Oreos, and hot fudge!! RICH, decadent, indulgent, and a great party dessert that you can MAKE-AHEAD!! Decadent Mud Pie Dessert This is such an easy dessert, and aside from the cookie dough layer —which is baked for 10 minutes — the rest of this layered chocolate pudding dessert is no-bake....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Oldies But Goodies I’ve become obsessed with old things lately. Keep me away from ebay, etsy, and thrift stores . My latest purchase is this vintage pine cutlery tray with original robin’s egg blue paint from the early 1900s. I bought it online so didn’t know exactly what it was going to look like in person until I received it in the mail....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peanut Butter-Swirled Strawberry Cake This is one of the best cakes I’ve ever made. There’s one pound of strawberries in an 8-inch cake. Along with swirls and valleys of peanut butter. Need I say more. The cake is based on the recent Blueberry Muffin and Buttermilk Pancakes Cake , Peaches and Cream Fluffy Muffin Cake , and the Cream Cheese-Swirled Cherry and Mixed Berries Cake ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Banana Cake There’s no wrong way to combine peanut butter, chocolate, and bananas. Maybe one day I’ll run out of ways and ideas, but thankfully that hasn’t happened. I love baking with bananas because everything turns out so soft and fluffy. This easy, one-bowl, no-mixer cake is another example of how bananas are such workhorses. I loathe dry cake and in addition to juicy bananas, there’s a single-serving container of banana Greek yogurt , a bit of oil, and peanut butter....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Sunflower Seed Butter Granola Bars with Chocolate Drizzle Every once in awhile I cheat on my dearly beloved peanut butter with sunflower seed butter. I am drawn to it’s uniquely powerful and slightly sweet flavor. I had an open jar of Trader Joe’s sunflower seed butter and knew that if I didn’t make something with it, my spoon would just find it’s way into the jar, over and over, until it was gone....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Here are this week’s Thursday Things : If you’ve ever wanted to smell like birthday cake, blueberry, bourbon, or brownies , Demeter Fragrance has you covered. Scents in their Top 30 scents include: Sex on the Beach, Jelly Belly Blueberry Muffin, and Cannabis Flower. You probably wouldn’t want to wear them all at once. This Oxo Multi-Purpose Scraper & Chopper ($9.99). I like that it has measurements etched in so that if I really want to be precise and cut my bars 2-inches-by-2-inches, I know exactly what I will yield from an 8-by-8-inch pan and everything will be precise....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Here are my Thursday Things for the week: Manuka Honey . This is the Cadillac of honey. If you like honey, Manuka honey is going to rock your world. It’s the most wonderful tasting honey I’ve ever tried. This type of honey is typically produced in Australia or New Zealand and there are different brands of Manuka honey. To be labeled Manuka honey, honey should have a manuka pollen count of at least seventy percent....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Here are this week’s Thursday Things : French Terry Crop Pants , French Terry Raglan Sweatshirt with Ganesh and a Renew Long Sleeve Raw Edge Tee with Ganesh from Be Present Everything is so ridiculously soft and comfortable. I have been wearing Be Present, almost daily, since 2004. This is what I live in for yoga, for power walks, for grocery shopping, and for life in general, I love it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Travelin’ Around Yesterday I mentioned that I was flying to Phoenix for a day trip . Well despite packing my handy dandy snack pack for the plane, I had the Breakfast of Champions: A Starbucks Venti Drip & water . I never skip hydrating, especially after that altitude moisture sucking ability that plane rides have. Since I was up at 4am, I can cut myself some slack on the ‘Bucks....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Muffins Vegan Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins Chocolate Chip Vegan Pumpkin Muffins — These vegan pumpkin muffins are studded with mini semi-sweet chocolate chips. Plus, they’re packed with five different warming spices, which makes then extra flavorful! The Best Vegan Pumpkin Muffins No butter? No eggs? No problem. Vegan never tasted so good, and you’d never know it by how rich these pumpkin chocolate chip muffins taste....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes When Chaos Strikes An update on my blog is that it probably wasn’t hacked like I originally thought . Rather, it was a massive database file error that caused most of my blog to go missing and go down for about 12 hours . AKA: my site crashed. Big time. Why did this happen? More than likely because my blog has been growing and I’ve seen big and sustained traffic increases, and my blog has outgrown the servers that it’s hosted on....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals 30-Minute One-Pot Beef and Bowtie Soup One-Pot Pasta and Ground Beef Soup — EASY, hearty, comfort food that’s full of flavor!! A FAST and tasty soup the whole family will LOVE! It will keep your warm on chilly winter nights!! Quick and Easy Soup with Ground Beef and Pasta During this chilly time of year, soup recipes are the most popular on my website....