Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars — A FAST and EASY dessert that is on the HEALTHIER side with only 1/4 cup butter and no oil!! Bold banana flavor, chewiness from the oats, and plenty of chocolate in every bite!! Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars I’ve never met a banana bread , banana cake , banana cookie, or banana muffin that I didn’t love....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Bringing Food on Trips, What Do You Bring? Hi Friends! Well this week is going by at warp speed and I feel frazzled and fragmented and am running around like a chicken with my head cut off! I am in the midst of packing for our trip . As the mom and domestic engineer of the home, I am responsible for everyone’s QTips, Shampoo, Sunscreen, nail clippers, Neosporin, random just in case medications, 3 pairs of shoes each, enough snacks and toys to last for a day of airplane travel, making sure we have the car rental reservation paperwork for the other end, hold onto the Passports, make sure the mail has been put on hold at the Post Office, make sure the bills here have been stamped and mailed in advance, it just goes on and on and on the things that I have to do....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Chocolate Chunk Cookie Sticks Just when I thought I had run out of ways to make chocolate chip cookies, I got an idea. Cookies in stick form. One of the best parts of these cookie sticks is that they’re ready in under a half hour from start to finish. Stir the dough together in one bowl, no need for a mixer , just press it into the pan and bake....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Chocolate Review, Service Appointment Woes, Handling Protein TGIF! How’s your day going? Mine started off with a dental teeth cleaning appointment gone wacky . I went to the dentist 4 months ago and mentioned at that time that I was less than impressed with the office. However, because they already had all my paperwork on file , and I didn’t feel like doing new patient paperwork and driving all over in search of a new dentist , I just went back to the same place....

Home › Recipe Index › Dips Easy Mexican-Inspired Hummus Easy Taco Hummus — Jazz up classic hummus with pico de gallo, cilantro, and you won’t be able to stop digging into it with tortilla chips!! Easy, healthy, ready in 5 minutes, and a perfect snack that everyone loves! Unique Hummus Recipe Hummus is such a great snack. Or if I’m being honest, hummus and crackers has been my dinner on many of those ‘too tired to cook’ nights....

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Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Honey Lemon Chicken with Angel Hair Pasta This Honey Lemon Chicken Pasta is ready in 20 minutes, making it the perfect weeknight meal! Pair with a simple salad or veggies and extra lemon wedges to amp up the lemon flavor. Your family will love this easy pasta recipe! Easy Honey Lemon Chicken Pasta Recipe Lemon and honey are so good together. This angel hair pasta with chicken is bright, tangy and sweet, and feels perfect for warmer weather....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes iPhone – Should I? I am seriously considering ditching my nearly two-year old Blackberry … …for an iPhone I have Verizon and was not going to switch to AT & T just so I could get the iPhone because in San Diego, I’ve had much better service for the past 7 years with Verizon than I did with AT & T years ago when I used have them....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies No-Bake Nutter Butter Special K Bars I have had a craving to somehow combine peanut butter cookies with a vanilla-infused, brown sugar-sweetened peanut butter sauce and create a no-bake dessert. And then I wanted to top the whole thing with chocolate frosting. After pondering how I was going to do this, it finally came to me… This recipe combines the peanut butter, brown sugar, and vanilla “sauce” I use in my Special K Bars …...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Organic Cheaper than Conventional Wow I had a busy day… I went to the regular grocery store and re-stocked some fresh produce. Organic tofu was on sale for $1.50 3 pounds of organic gala apples were on sale for $2.99 making organic cheaper than conventional. Gotta love in-store buys. Then I went to Whole Foods where I only buy Vegenasie . Walk in, do not look left, right, or anywhere but to the Vegenaise case and walk right out....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Peanut Butter Blossom Cookie Bars Before Christmas I made Peanut Butter Blossoms . They disappeared so fast and I was craving peanut butter (what’s new) so I made another batch. Except I made them as cookie bars rather than individual cookies. Bars are faster, easier, there’s no dough to chill, they’re made in one bowl, and you don’t even need a mixer. I adapted my infamous blondie base recipe....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Nutter Butter Bars Peanut butter, peanut butter cookies, and chocolate. Sounds like a good idea to me. And dangerously fast and easy to make. These rich, soft and chewy, peanut buttery bars are a hybrid of the Triple Peanut Butter Monster Cookie Bars and the Loaded M&M Oreo Cookie Bars , with Nutter Butter Cookies instead of Oreos. Even after writing a cookbook with 100+ peanut butter recipes , I can never have too much peanut butter....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Seafood Shrimp Ceviche Shrimp Ceviche — The EASIEST way to make traditional shrimp ceviche and it tastes the BEST!! Ready in 30 minutes, great as an appetizer, side, or as a healthy main course that everyone LOVES!! Easy Recipe for Shrimp Ceviche I spend a lot of time in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and I eat ceviche at least once a week. It’s the perfect lazy person’s meal, you don’t have to cook anything, no oven or stove to turn on, it’s ready in 30 minutes with almost no active work , and the flavors will keep you coming back for more, bite after bite....

Home › Recipe Index › Christmas Recipes Stained Glass Chocolate Candy Chocolate Stained Glass Candy — 🍫🍒🎁 Likely the prettiest Christmas candy you’ll make all holiday season! It’s FAST, EASY, and NO-BAKE! Milk chocolate takes on the appearance of stained glass by adding colored mini marshmallows, crispy Rice Krispies, and chewy dried cherries. You can make this simple yet stunning candy weeks in advance so it’s perfect for gifting and cookie exchanges!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Surprised Me I woke up Valentine’s Day morning to these. Scott clearly doesn’t read my blog because I had mentioned that I’d rather spend money on shoes (or just about anything else) than on flowers. They die so fast and they seem so frivolous. But after having these beauties in the house, I am not complaining. And I can’t complain about my day, either....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Tagalongs Cookie Bars Tagalong Cookie Bars — Say hello to year-round Girl Scout cookie season with these delish bars! All the flavors of the classic cookies in easy bar form!! Copycat Tagalongs Recipe After all, who can resist a buttery soft shortbread base, topped with creamy peanut butter, and finished with a satisfying layer of chocolate? Rather than making individual cookies, which would include rolling and cutting out shortbread and then dipping each cookie individually in chocolate, I took the flavors in classic Girl Scout Tagalongs and made bars....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes The Server Shuffle I hope your day is going smoother than mine. I woke up to an email from my current web hosting company saying that my site was down so if you ran into any “site temporarily unavailable” messages earlier today, you know why. This is on the heels of last week’s site crash and database failure. Coincidentally, I am happen to be in the midst of a server migration (today) to a new hosting company....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Here are this week’s Thursday Things : I was getting my hair done last week and I asked my stylist what flat iron she uses and she showed it to me. They sell it at the salon for $145 plus tax. I went online with my iPhone, googled it, and up came this deal from Overstock : $67.99, no tax, free shipping....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Time for this week’s Thursday Things: I signed up for Ziplist “ Ziplist the free, easy-to-use online grocery list service that enables you to build and share grocery lists and recipe boxes, has teamed up with Averie Cooks to provide you many of ZipList’s capabilities. Save your favorite recipes from Averie Cooks in one place, along with any other recipes you may have, then automatically create a shopping list with different recipes each week....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Vegan Stir Fry, Peach Pina Colada, and Trip Finale Pics How are you doing today? Well, this post brings our Aruba trip to a close. After I hit Publish on this one, we’re off to the airport. Sigh. As I mentioned before , I know all good things come to an end, but I am sad to leave Paradise....