Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Avocado, Cream Cheese, and Salsa-Stuffed Puff Pastries I had been wanting to make stuffed savory stuffed puff pastry for awhile. Probably for the past, oh, seven years, give or take. My sister is the queen of puffed pastry appetizers but this is one of those cooking projects that just never happened for me. Until now. A shipment of locally-grown avocados that all decided to ripen on the same day and I wanted to put them to a creative use....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Berry Crumble Bars Mixed Berry Crumble Bars — Big buttery crumbles top the soft, juicy bars packed with blueberries, raspberries and strawberries! Easy, no mixer recipe that’s irresistible!! (Frozen fruit okay!) Easy Mixed Berry Bars I love crumble or streusel toppings and the bigger the crumbles, the happier I am. It’s even better when the crust and crumble topping are one and the same....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cakes & Cupcakes Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze Glazed Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake — A very fast and straightforward cinnamon coffee cake to make and isn’t fussy at all. It’s moist, dense, and way easier to make than actual cinnamon rolls! Easy Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake Recipe I love cinnamon rolls, but they’re a bit time consuming to make. This cinnamon coffee cake is not....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Dream Day Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms! I hope you all had wonderful days and a great Mother’s Day weekend. After I got home from work on Saturday evening, two cards were waiting for me. I loved the embroidery work on the card Scott gave me. Nice goin’, babe! (he doesn’t read my blog so he’ll never see this unless I tell him) I love embroidered things from dishtowels to sweaters so this card was right up my alley!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Impulse Buys or Planned Purchases When I went to Marshall’s last weekend for my new dishes … …I saw all kinds of fun, discounted food products. Like dried fruit and specialty granola. But I realized I can make my own homemade Vegan GF Granola for pennies per serving in 20 minutes. So I passed on the store bought. I also saw a great price on agave, until I remembered that ordering agave on iHerb....

Home › Recipe Index › Instant Pot Instant Pot Chicken Broccoli Pasta Instant Pot Chicken and Broccoli Pasta – 🥦🧀🎉 Juicy seasoned chicken with pasta and broccoli, all tossed in an AMAZING creamy cheese sauce! A family favorite EASY dinner recipe that’s perfect for busy weeknights! Made in the Instant Pot in 30 minutes and stovetop cooking directions are also provided. Easy Instant Pot Chicken Broccoli Pasta Recipe There’s something about juicy seasoned chicken nestled in between al dente cooked penne pasta and crisp-tender broccoli all tossed together in a creamy cheese sauce that’s irresistible....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Love It or Leave It Time for a little game of Love It or Leave It I’ll start with my Leave It’s: Rainy Weather. I live in San Diego for a reason: It’s usually sunny! I would love 78F and sunny year round, and no, I wouldn’t miss the change of seasons. The past 36 hours we’ve had cold, rainy, dreary weather. The kind of weather that I could see my breath when I was running outside....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Yeast Breads No-Knead Dinner Rolls with Honey Butter Easiest No-Knead Dinner Rolls — 🍯🙏 These soft, light, fluffy yeast dinner rolls are so easy to make! They’re practically work-free because there’s no kneading involved! Easiest No-Knead Dinner Rolls Recipe Ingredients in No-Knead Dinner Rolls How to Make No-Knead Rolls Make-Ahead Instructions Recipe FAQs No-Knead Dinner Rolls Recipe More Easy Dinner Roll Recipes: Easiest No-Knead Dinner Rolls Recipe There’s nothing better than warm, fresh, buttery homemade dinner rolls....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Nutella Cinnamon Rolls with Vanilla Glaze Nutella Cinnamon Rolls with Vanilla Glaze are decadent and a ridiculously easy way to enjoy homemade cinnamon rolls in a hurry. I love making bread from scratch, posted four from-scratch bread recipes in November, and in fact, no other kitchen adventure gives me more joy and satisfaction. Kneading the dough, watching it rise, and observing the yeast work their magic is science-meets-baking at it’s finest....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes On Board With I’m so glad you got a kick out of my last post, hair salon blogging , and the pictures of me with foils in my hair. Yes, keeping it real. Always. Here’s my new and freshly touched up color. Photos courtesy of my iMac’s built-in camera and the Photo Booth program. No cut, just highlights. Ba-bye root regrowth. I can’t believe I am posting that picture, but whatever....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Overnight Buttermilk Soft and Fluffy Cinnamon Rolls Overnight Cinnamon Rolls — These overnight cinnamon rolls are ultra soft and fluffy thanks to the buttermilk in the dough. Top them with homemade cream cheese frosting and enjoy! The Best Overnight Cinnamon Rolls Overnight Cinnamon Rolls Ingredients How to Make Homemade Cinnamon Rolls How to Tell If the Buttermilk Mixture is Warm Enough to Activate the Yeast How to Encourage Your Dough to Rise How to Store Cinnamon Rolls Can I Freeze Cinnamon Rolls?...

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Peanut Butter Banana Protein Pancakes Peanut Butter Banana Protein Pancakes — Light, fluffy, EASY pancakes that pack 13+ grams of PROTEIN per serving!! The peanut butter-infused maple syrup is rich, decadent, and you’ll never settle for plain maple syrup again!! Easy High Protein Pancakes Recipe If you’re looking for extremely easy pancakes that are soft, fluffy, light, and pack extra protein, look no further than this recipe....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Product Reviews & Blogger Meetup Well, it’s Tuesday, and at least Monday is behind us! I had a really busy day Monday, and today has been no different! I’ve had the pest control guy here. I despise bugs and err on the side of prevention , rather than a bug or ant infestation , and spray the crap outta my property . Which is pretty much the antithesis of Being Green like I mentioned yesterday....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Salty Last week I received some Woody’s Gourmet samples as part of being a Foodzie contributor. I posted last month about the wonderful horseradish mustard I received in my Foodzie tasting box And this month Woody’s Herb Sea Salt arrived. What’s a girl to make with some herb sea salt? Some ideas… Lemon & Dill Roasted Potato Sticks Cheezy Veggie Bake Roasted Sweet Potato Fries...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things & LinkUp Here are this week’s Thursday Things I was nominated to The Kitchn’s Best Food Photography on a Blog list. I only have a couple votes, but hey, I’ll take them. Better than none. If you want to vote for me , I’d love it. If you want to vote for other people, they’d love it. You can sign in with your Facebook or Twitter name to register and voting is anonymous....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals 20-Minute Easy Vegan Pozole Verde 20-Minute Easy Vegan Pozole Verde – Think pozole needs meat? Think again! You’ll never miss the meat in this EASY, hearty, and satisfying pozole that’s full of authentic Mexican flavors!! PERFECT for busy weeknights and chilly weather!! What’s In The Pozole Verde? Let me start by saying I know it’s not typical to have a vegetarian or vegan pozole in Mexico but the great thing about the world we live in these days is that you can customize recipes so they suit your needs, thanks in large part to pulling elements of various recipes from the internet, and combining them to suit your tastes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes A First Time For Everything I am writing this post using Windows Live Writer for the first time. A big step for me! But this is what my goal was when I went through all kinds of crazy efforts in order to get Windows + Windows Live Writer set up on my new iMac . Another first is that this past week I’ve been enjoying the first white nectarines of the season....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Baked Bacon Cheddar French Toast Savory French Toast Bake with Bacon and Cheese — No need to stand at the stove to flip and babysit your French toast with this easy BAKED version!! Plenty of bacon and melted cheddar for the perfect savory, comfort-food French toast that’s great for breakfast, brunch, or brinner!! Baked Bacon and Cheddar French Toast Recipe I am a big fan of baked french toast because it’s so easy — no flipping and no babysitting at the stove required!...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Beef Cracker Barrel Meatloaf Copycat Cracker Barrel Meatloaf — 🙌🏻😋🎉 This copycat recipe is tender, juicy, made with the restaurant’s secret ingredients, glazed to tangy-sweet perfection, and sure to become a family FAVORITE comfort food dinner recipe! Air fryer AND oven baking options provided. Ingredients in Cracker Barrel Meatloaf How to Make Copycat Cracker Barrel Meatloaf (2 Options) Air Fryer Option Recipe FAQs Side Dishes to Serve with Meatloaf Copycat Cracker Barrel Meatloaf Recipe More Easy Ground Beef Dinner Recipes: I have some family members who want to stop at Cracker Barrel every time we pass one!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Food & Light: Photography Tips Food and Light started promptly at 8:00am. I was up at 5:50am and went for that run which actually energized me for the morning session and the rest of today. Our teachers: Jen , Todd & Diane Matt & Todd I was sitting in the back row next to Elana of Elana’s Pantry . She is the sweetest, kindest, and most friendly person....