Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Rainbow Flag Recipes It’s Pride Weekend here in San Diego. In honor of rainbow flags flying, here are my rainbow-colored recipes for a very rainbow flag-flying kind of weekend. Red Stovetop Hot Pepper Jelly Strawberries and Cream Smoothie (vegan, GF) Raw Taco Nut “Meat” (vegan, GF) – One of the best raw vegan recipes in my entire archives and it takes 30 seconds to make....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Slow Cooker Slow Cooker Orange Chicken Slow Cooker Orange Chicken — 🍊😋🧡 The easiest orange chicken ever because your slow cooker does all the work! Super juicy, tender, and coated with a sweet-yet-tangy orange glaze that’s irresistible! A family FAVORITE chicken dinner recipe to put into your rotation! Easy Slow Cooker Orange Chicken Recipe What’s in Slow Cooker Orange Chicken? How to Make Slow Cooker Orange Chicken What Size Slow Cooker Should Is Best?...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Soft and Chewy Coconut Oatmeal Toffee Cookies Last week I was having one of those afternoon cravings for a snack, and I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted, yet nothing I had on hand was really striking my fancy. Necessity is the mother of invention so I made these cookies. I wanted something sweet (duh) but I didn’t want to make a huge batch of anything....

Home › Recipe Index › Christmas Cookies Soft and Chewy Molasses Gingerdoodles Chewy & Soft Molasses Cookies — 🎄❤️ 🍪These gingerdoodle cookies taste like a cross between chewy gingerbread cookies and crinkly snickerdoodles. An unbeatable holiday cookie recipe! Soft Molasses Cookies Recipe What’s in Soft Molasses Cookies? How to Make Soft Molasses Cookies Make Ahead and Storage Recipe FAQs Soft and Chewy Molasses Gingerdoodles Recipe More Molasses Recipes: Soft Molasses Cookies Recipe I combined three favorite cookies into one — soft molasses cookies, chewy gingerbread cookies, and crinkly snickerdoodles....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Strawberry Coconut Pina Colada Smoothie Strawberry Pineapple Smoothie — A smoothie that tastes like a strawberry pina colada!! Fast, easy, refreshing, naturally sweet, and made with ONLY 3 INGREDIENTS! Easy Strawberry and Pineapple Smoothie Summer is in full swing and I know you’re in need of some hydration. I’ve got just the thing to quench your thirst with this tropical tasting drink. It’s fast, easy, refreshing, made with only 3 ingredients — strawberries, pineapple, Silk Coconut Milk — and it’s definitely delicious....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Salads Strawberry, Avocado, and Kale Salad with Strawberry-Apple Cider Vinaigrette Kale Strawberry Avocado Salad — Make a kale lover out of anyone with this kale strawberry salad! It’s topped with creamy avocado, juicy berries, and homemade strawberry vinaigrette! Kale Strawberry Avocado Salad Recipe I love kale and when it’s topped with big juicy strawberries and creamy avocado, even better. I feel healthier just by looking at it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Trail Mix Peanut Butter Cookies Trail Mix Peanut Butter Cookies – I love trail mix, and I love it even more when it’s baked into my favorite peanut butter cookies. The cookies are naturally gluten-free and have NO butter, flour, and I didn’t add any white sugar. They’re guaranteed to disappear! I love trail mix so much. It’s dangerous for me to even keep it around....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes While They Were Watching the Game While other people were watching the Superbowl, Skylar and I headed for the mall . And thankfully, it was pretty empty. I surmise most people were glued to the tube. Not me . I took this pile of empty MAC makeup containers and brought them to the MAC Store Tip: Every 6 empty MAC containers = 1 free lipgloss/lipstick so save them and turn them in for your freebie!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Zuke Noodles Hi bloggies, how are you doing today? I’m doin’ bueno. Scott’s here for the day so I get a little reprieve on the 24/7 parenting duty and I’ll keep things a little lighter today than I did in yesterday’s weekend recap & mental musings on pushing too hard, too fast post. I’m really grateful for all of you who take the time to comment and for new readers who are swingin’ by and also for older ones who are de-lurking....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Fish 10-Minute Sheet Pan Dijon Lemon Salmon and Vegetables 10-Minute Sheet Pan Dijon Salmon and Vegetables — Juicy salmon and crisp-tender vegetables coated with a buttery Dijon honey lemon sauce for an explosion of FLAVOR!! So EASY and ready so FAST!! Easiest Dijon Baked Salmon Recipe This Dijon baked salmon recipe is a spinoff of my recipes for Sheet Pan Honey Lemon Salmon , Honey Dijon Salmon , and Sheet Pan Lemon Garlic Butter Salmon ....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Apricot Butterscotch Peanut Butter-Filled Sandwich Cookies Oreo Double Stuffed cookies, you have nothing on these. They are triple-stuffed and full of fluff and puff. Have you ever made something and wished you could have a “do-over” on the recipe? Anywhere from that was totally horrible to that was decent but I’m not completely satisfied? I think we’ve all been there. Most recently for me, it started with these Mango and White Chocolate Chip Cookies ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blueberry and Cream Cheese Muffin Top Bread Blueberry and Cream Cheese Muffin Top Bread – This bread tastes like one big muffin top and is more like a dense cake-meets-muffin-top than bread because it’s falling-apart soft, tender, and moist. It’s dense yet springy and bouncy, and it oozes with blueberries. I love muffin tops. Those sweet, super moist crowns that adorn muffins, but are gone in about three bites....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Caramel Apple Bars I really wanted to call these bars Caramel Apple & White Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Bars But that was kind of a mouthful. The bars are a mouthful, too. In the best possible way, I assure you. So I left the title as Caramel Apple Bars In my world, caramel + apples just go together And so does PB + apples...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Chocolate Hot Fudge Mini Layer Cake Chocolate Hot Fudge Mini Layer Cake – Rich, decadent, over-the-top fudgy cake that uses hot fudge instead of frosting!! You don’t need special pans for this EASY, no-mixer, mini cake that’s perfect for special events!! This cake is literally a hot fudgy mess and you’re going to love every decadent bite. It’s an easy, no-mixer cake that uses the same cake base as this 2012 Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache ....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Cowboy Cookies Cowboy Cookies — These cowboy cookies are packed with oats, chocolate chips, Cornflakes, and shredded coconut. This is a flexible recipe that you can make with different mix-ins to suit whatever is in your pantry! Addicting Cowboy Cookies Recipe You don’t have to be a cowboy or cowgirl to love these cookies. I’m neither and couldn’t get enough of them....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Dulce de Leche Coconut Chocolate Chip Bars Dulce de leche is translated as candy of milk or milk candy . These (candy) bars are translated as one of the richest things I’ve made in 2013, and one of the best. If you’re the type of person who complains about desserts being too sweet or too rich, stop reading now because these bars are both....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes First Post from San Diego! We Made It & New House Pictures, To-Do Lists, Latest Scores & Finds Hi Friends! We made it! We’re in San Diego and I’m blogging with Scott’s wireless card until the cable company can get out here and properly hook up our internet. They’ve already been here, but the internet is not “plug and go” and is not working....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Fraudulent Charges & Identity Theft I was busy working at my desk earlier in the week when I saw an email from American Express come in with the words Fraud Protection Alert in the subject line. I knew this wasn’t going to be good. When I opened it, I found this message, “For your security, we regularly monitor accounts for possible fraudulent activity. Please review the attempted charge below which occurred within minutes of the timestamp of this message....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Gooey Chocolate Chip and Marshmallow Cookie Pie Gooey Chocolate Chip and Marshmallow Cookie Pie — The whole pie tastes like the soft, GOOEY, underbaked centers of fresh chocolate chip marshmallow cookies!! Between the melted chocolate, marshmallows, and big time gooey factor, this pie is PERFECT!! Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookie Pie I love making cookie pies because they’re so much faster and easier than making cookies....

Home › Recipe Index › Soups Immune-Boosting Vegetable Soup and Broth Homemade Vegetable Soup — This homemade vegetable soup is packed with good-for-you ingredients. It’s perfect for when you’re under the weather, are trying to prevent illness, or are craving a warm bowl of soup! Homemade Vegetable Soup and Broth Recipe ‘Tis the season for colds, flus, and sickey germs everywhere. This vegetable broth soup is the perfect antidote to all that....