Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken One-Pan Honey Lemon Chicken and Roasted Potatoes Sheet Pan Honey Lemon Chicken Thighs and Roasted Potatoes — Juicy chicken with a honey lemon glaze that’s tangy-sweet and so good!! Healthy, fast, so easy, and cleanup is a breeze!! Baked Honey Lemon Chicken and Potatoes Fast, easy dinners with zero cleanup that are packed with so much flavor are always winners. My family loved the moist, juicy, honey lemon chicken and the tender, roasted potatoes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Order Up Even though there was no U.S. Mail service on Friday because of Veteran’s Day, UPS was still working and my iHerb arrived containing some essentials. Liquid Vanilla Stevia Drops 5 pounds of stevia in bulk Probiotics If you need to order protein powder, probiotics, stevia, bulk herbs and spices, nutritional yeast, body wash, supplements, vitamins and so many other health and beauty products and food items, I always recommend iHerb ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peanut Butter Apple Banana Bread Peanut Butter Apple Banana Bread — Jazz up regular banana bread with peanut butter and apples! A perfect combo that tastes amazing together!! Fast, easy, no mixer required, and a hit with everyone! PB Apple Banana Bread Recipe Peanut butter and apples go together. Peanut butter and bananas go together. Apples and bananas go together. It all works so well together....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Sheet Pan Summer Vegetables and Chicken Summer Sheet Pan Chicken and Veggies — Fast, EASY, HEALTHY, and perfect for your seasonal summer zucchini, squash and tomatoes!! A DELISH one-pan meal with zero cleanup that’s great for lazy summer days or busy weeknights!! Easy Summer Chicken Recipe I love sheet pan dinners because they’re easy, tasty, and ready in no time. The chicken in this recipe is tender, juicy, and infused with lovely lemon flavor from lemon pepper as well as Italian seasoning....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Soft and Chewy Red Velvet Cookies 🍪❤️ My soft and chewy red velvet cookies are decadently delicious and loaded with white chocolate chips in every bite! They’re a classic from-scratch, EASY red velvet cookie recipe that’s made in one bowl with PERFECT results every time! They’re great for Valentine’s Day, Christmas, or any time you’re craving red velvet because these come together in no time, and everyone LOVES them!...

Home › Recipe Index › Beverages › Smoothies Thick and Fudgy Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie — You’d never guess this fudgy peanut butter smoothie is actually healthy for you! Warning: you’ll need a spoon for this smoothie that tastes like drinkable fudge! Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie Smoothies that require a spoon rather than a straw are my favorite kind. And smoothies with chocolate and peanut butter are even better....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Time for this week’s Thursday Things : The Huffington Post named me as one of The Best Food Bloggers: HuffPost’s Top 10 Picks I’m honored to have been chosen. Some fellow bloggers whom I’ve gotten to know over the years are also on the list, making it even nicer to be named among friends. I never would have thought I’d be seeing my name on a list like this, but I’m very grateful and highly appreciative....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Tonight Happy Chanukah wishes from Aruba to those who are celebrating. Scott said he has no plans to go to Temple after the sun sets and that he’d rather be on the beach. He never has plans to go to Temple but that’s another story. He said if he could get in on another Ho Ho with Cream Cheese Frosting , that one of those would be more up his alley than services tonight....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blogger Meetup, Fitness Competition Shoes & Suit, At Home Smoothie Bar & Recipes, Close with Mom Hi Bloggies! What’s shaking in your world? I had a productive morning of cardio, lifting, and then a Blogger Meetup with Madeline at our local coffee hangout. Normally we meet at this coffee shop but I suggested we take advantage of the pool since it’s been super hot....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Caramel Apple Cheesecake Crumble Bars Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars — 🍎🍁🍂 These layered caramel apple cheesecake bars feature a buttery crust that’s topped with a cheesecake layer, spiced apples, and the BEST crumble topping! After baking, these INCREDIBLE cheesecake bars are drizzled with salted caramel sauce to truly make them next-level! The PERFECT fall dessert for entertaining or Thanksgiving! Ingredients in Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars How to Make Apple Cheesecake Bars Recipe FAQs Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars Recipe More Easy Apple Desserts: These apple cheesecake bars taste like apple pie , apple crumble , and cheesecake all in one!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Chocolate Desserts, Mango & Corn Salsa Salad, Hot Topic Friday TGIF, Baby!!!!! Whatcha got shaking for the weekend, bloggie friends? I don’t have anything special lined up other than to enjoy the 80F and sunny weather, spend lots of time outdoors, being with the fam, and trying to unplug a little a lot. It’s my goal , actually, to allow my googlereader to pile up but being the Type A compulsive blog reader and commenter that I am , I am floundering with letting things pile up and I still comment on tons of blogs , fabulous that they are of course....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Christmas and Santa Cheer I hope you’ve had a Merry Christmas today and if you’re not celebrating Christmas or Chanukah, I hope you’ve had a wonderful Sunday. We did. Santa came. He made it all the way down from the North Pole down to the South Pole and found one good little girl’s here here in Aruba . Complete with overweight baggage fees from Delta Airlines....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Cinnamon Roll Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting Cinnamon rolls are some of my favorite treats in the whole world, but they are a bit time consuming and to make on a whim and I had a major craving for cinnamon rolls. Enter these bars with a bold pop of cinnamon flavor and tangy cream cheese frosting. They deliver the flavors of cinnamon rolls in an easy bar form....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Crunchy Peanut Chicken Salad Crunchy Thai Peanut Salad with Chicken — Crispy fried chicken with crunchy cabbage, carrots, peanuts, cilantro and the EASIEST and BEST homemade peanut sauce that coats every bite!! A salad that you’ll CRAVE over and over! Crunchy Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing Ingredients for Thai Peanut Salad How to Make Thai Peanut Salad Make-Ahead Instructions What Type of Chicken Is Best for Thai Peanut Salad?...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Seafood Garlic Butter Scallops Garlic Butter Scallops — An EASY, one-skillet, 15-minute recipe that tastes restaurant-worthy, yet is incredibly SIMPLE to make at home! Even if you’ve never made scallops at home before, this is a foolproof recipe for pan-seared, tender, juicy scallops coated in garlic butter with lemon and citrus notes that’s sure to IMPRESS! A wonderful choice for a special holiday meal, an anniversary or birthday dinner, or date-night-in!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Great Aruba Friday I had a great Friday. Can’t beat the Friday afternoon views in Aruba. The weather was perfect. 88F, light breeze, mostly sunny. The beach wasn’t crowded. Tomorrow, Saturday, the influx of Christmas and holiday tourists will hit the island but today was super mellow. And shortly before we left the beach Skylar sat down on my chaise lounge and decided to give me a foot massage....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Meow It was overcast and rained on and off all day in Aruba today. Lots of puddles and standing water. Scott and Skylar tried the beach for an hour but got rained out. I tried the kitchen. And made a mess and lots of dishes. The rain didn’t stop my neighbors’ cat from staring me down. I was surprised she let me take these pictures, actually....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Muffins Mini Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Muffins Cinnamon Sugar Mini Pumpkin Muffins — These mini pumpkin muffins are coated in cinnamon sugar and are bursting with fall flavor! Even better, they’re fast, easy, and accidentally vegan! Easiest Recipe for Mini Pumpkin Muffins Mini food is my downfall. It’s so cute and easy to pop, one after the next. The cute and easy factor, combined with pumpkin, and look out....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Tofu & Tempeh Peanut Sauce Baked Tofu I love peanut butter. And sunflower seed butter ranks right up there, too. I have a post dedicated to peanut butter recipes because I use it in so many recipes. Peanut butter makes the world go round for me. And I love peanut sauce . I could drink it. I like a little bit of food with my sauce....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Strawberry Custard Bars Strawberry Bars — Easy, no mixer bars with a shortbread crust, one pound of fresh berries, a layer of sweet custard, and creamy whipped topping!! A perfect warm weather dessert that everyone LOVES!! Easy Fresh Strawberry Dessert If you’re like me when summer rolls around, your eyes are often bigger than your stomach or your refrigerator storage when it comes to buying fresh fruit....