Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Wish List – Part 2 Since my last Wish List a week or so ago, I figured it was time to wish, again. I can keep dreaming, right? Items 1 through 5 are here . A personal masseuse to come over for weekly house calls. My entire body back is prone to major issues and I am a massage junkie . I would love pay Heather or Christin to be on-call....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Beach Pictures & 10 Questions Hi Friends! How are you doing today? I’m doing wonderfully since we finally got a little beach time in. Not extremely sunny, but for 90 minutes we got a little time in here I tried to read these when they were off walking around… Moving On… I was reading Spabettie’s recent post and she asked and answered some questions that I thought would be fun to chime in on....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blogger Meetup, WF Finds, Raw-ifying Brownie Cupcakes How are you doing today? I’ve had a fun day because I met Maureen of MommyRD and her baby girl, Ava, at WF’s for coffee. Maureen and I had originally talked about a park playdate but on account of all the rain and horrible dreary and cold weatther we’ve had, we figured we’d rather be cozy and dry and sipping our java indoors ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Breaking the Rules, Mailbox Finds, Favorite Seasonal Foods, Prop 8 Overturned How’s your Hump Day gang? I hit the gym this morning, ran a few errands, and came home and sold some Kombucha and a couple of Scobys. Seems my Craigslist ad for Kombucha Scoby Mushrooms and Kombucha has taken off! I’ve been really enjoying my Kombucha from my Oak Barrel and am happy to share it!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Cinnamon and Spice I love cinnamon and like to use it in my cooking and baking whenever possible. Now that fall is approaching, the warming and homey qualities that cinnamon imparts into anything made with it is especially nice. Here are 15 of my favorite cinnamon recipes where there’s no mistaking it’s robust flavor: Breads and Pastries with Cinnamon Cinnamon Bun Pie – Big crumbly pieces of cinnamon-sugar streusel topping add to the flavor of the cinnamon rolls and they use shortcut so hey’re ready in no time...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Cooking with Pumpkin – Cookbook Announcement! I’ve been waiting to formally announce this forever. It’s been two years that I’ve kept it to myself, but two years feels like forever. I wrote a second cookbook called Cooking With Pumpkin: Recipes That Go Beyond the Pie . About a month after I finished writing Peanut Butter Comfort in late 2012 I was contacted about writing a pumpkin recipes book....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Asian Copycat Applebee’s Chicken Wonton Tacos Copycat Applebee’s Chicken Wonton Tacos — Crispy, crunchy wonton wrappers are filled with succulent teriyaki chicken and topped with sesame ginger coleslaw to create the best ever chicken wonton tacos! This is a homemade version of Applebee’s wonton tacos, but fresher and tastier. If you love Asian-fusion recipes, you’re going to love these tacos! Asian Chicken Tacos … with Wonton Taco Shells!...

Home › Recipe Index › Christmas Recipes Easy Glazed Pound Cake All-Butter Pound Cake with Powdered Sugar Glaze — Finally a homemade pound cake that isn’t dry!! This EASY, buttery, velvety pound cake will be the star of your next party or celebration! Post is brought to you by Horizon Organic. The recipes, images, text, video, and opinions expressed are my own. Simple Pound Cake with Icing Butter Pound Cake Ingredients How to Make Butter Pound Cake Homemade Pound Cake FAQs Favorite Pound Cake Toppings Pound Cake Variations to Try Recipe Video Easy Glazed Pound Cake Recipe More Bundt Cake Recipes: Simple Pound Cake with Icing There is a first for everything, and after 10+ years of blogging this is the first pound cake recipe I’ve ever published....

Home › Recipe Index › Extras › Shopping & Deals Some of these are one-time purchases that I don’t need to make again, and others are things that I buy over and over. Kitchen Keurig K-Mini Plus Single Serve Coffee Pot – I love this Keurig because it’s so slender and has a very small countertop footprint, essential in my small California kitchen. Magnetic Wooden Knife Block – I have a ton of large knives (chef, santoku) and the 17×13 holds about 8 of them on one side, and the other side is also magnetic and I keep my smaller knives....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Food Find 10 Years Later & Re-Labeled Food Hi Friends! How are you today? I’ve been running around like a crazy lady but busy is good, right? How has your week been? I’ve spent a lot of time at parks this week with Skylar. The weather has been so beautiful and we’ve been savoring our time outside. We went to our unschoolers park day on Monday and then on Tuesday we met some other friends at another park....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Grilled Cajun Chicken and Pineapple Foil Packets Grilled Cajun Chicken and Pineapple Foil Packets — EASY, tasty, ready in 15 minutes, HEALTHY, and since it’s made in a foil pack on the grill, there’s ZERO cleanup!! Perfect for easy-breezy summer meals!! Easy Grilled Chicken and Pineapple Nothing says summer like throwing some chicken on the grill, and with this ultra fast and easy foil pack recipe, you’re going to be devouring your meal in no time....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Lovely Food TGIF! Here’s my weekly roundup of lovely food and posts I saw this week in the ‘sphere. I’ve been watching food, not the Royal Wedding. I think I’m the only person who hasn’t been watching it, but reading blogs has been akin to Wedding Cliff’s Notes. I can catch up on the whole thing just by reading blogs and in 10 minutes not hours....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes March 2012 Recipes In keeping with my plan to recap the noteworthy food and recipes that I made for the month, here’s what I made for March 2012: Caribbean Citrus Mahi Mahi with Brown Rice Noodles (Gluten Free) Egg-in-a-Nest Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bites (No-Bake, Vegan, Gluten Free) Oreo Cookie Stuffed Brownies with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Cheese Recipes Fig Butter and Cumin Tempeh Stir Fry (Vegan)...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Beef One Pot Cheesy Mexican Beef and Rice One-Pot Cheesy Mexican Ground Beef and Rice — All your favorite burrito ingredients minus the wrap!! Made in one skillet, ready in 30 minutes, and so EASY! Hearty comfort food that’s packed with bold Mexican flavors!! Cheesy Ground Beef and Rice Recipe I love one-pot recipes. I want to be relaxing on the couch after dinner not doing endless dinner dishes....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Salted Caramel Pretzel-Topped Fudgy Brownies Calling all salty-and-sweet fans, these brownies are the hot ticket. Fudgy, caramely, dense and rich with crunch factor. Something for everyone. The brownies are as fast and easy as using a boxed mix , and the brownie batter is whisked together in one bowl in minutes. The brownies are the epitome of dark, rich, and fudgy and are the chocolate version of these Salted Caramel Pretzel Blondies , which have always been popular with readers....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Vanilla Melting Moments Sandwich Cookies with Nutella-Cream Cheese Filling Vanilla Melting Moments Cookies with Nutella Filling — These vanilla sandwich cookies are so soft and they literally melt in your mouth! Perfect for Christmas, Easter, and family gatherings! Perfect Christmas Sandwich Cookies These cookies remind me of cookies on Christmas cookie platters that I ate growing up. But those were just plain cookies. I enhanced these with Nutella....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Chocolate Vegan Mexican Feast: Fajitas & Chocolate Wedding Cookies, Fear & Truth Hi Bloggie Friends, how’s your day been so far? Mine’s been awesome because I got together with a very special girl, who happens to be having a Birthday Today: Madeline of Greens and Jeans!!!! We met at our usual hangout and I chugged sipped 2 large coffees. And loved every second of it....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Vegan Sweet and Sour Refrigerator Pickles, Progress Pics & Arms, Online Order, How Many Pics a Day to Take Hi Bloggie Friends! How has the weekend been going so far for you? I have had an action packed , non-computer out there living life and loving it kind of day. Scott got home last night from his business trip and took Skylar to the park today so I could have a couple hours to myself....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken 15-Minute Mango Lime Chicken with Rice and Beans 15-Minute Mango Lime Chicken with Rice and Beans – EASY, healthy, and the mango sauce spiked with lime juice is SO tasty!! You can’t go wrong with Mexican-inspired flavors, JUICY chicken, and rice and beans!! This recipe is so easy, healthy, ready in under 20 minutes, and naturally gluten-free. How To Make The Mango Sauce Tender pieces of chicken are simmered in an easy yet super flavorful mango sauce that’s spiked with lime juice, garlic, brown sugar, and a pinch of cayenne if you like the heat....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Apple and Pear Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette Fall Apple and Pear Salad — 🍎🍐🥗 Complete with crisp apples, tender juicy pears, pomegranate seeds, nuts, crumbled feta, and a tangy homemade honey maple balsamic vinaigrette! Whether you’re looking for a quick lunch idea, dinner side, or a holiday side dish for Thanksgiving or Christmas, this FAST and EASY salad is sure to get rave reviews!...