Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Mint Magic Bars Loaded Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars — These bars are a mint twist on the classic Seven Layer Bars many grew up with! Made with Ghirardelli Mint Chocolates, Andes Mints, and Mint Oreos on a chocolate chip cookie base. White chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, and a layer of sweetened condensed milk that caramelizes as it bakes provide a true Magic Bar experience!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Pool Pictures, Winter Solstice, Tips for Free Goodies Hi Friends! I hope your week is going along well. And you’re staying warm! It’s plenty warm here in Aruba. We got some sun yesterday and hit up the pool for an hour or so. I tried to rest on my chaise lounge for a nanosecond but Skylar will have none of that. Thanks to everyone who wished Scott a Happy Birthday ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Productivity At Its Finest I’ve been busy. Real busy. I hope your day has been as productive as mine. I was productive in the kitchen, though. I made something along the lines of Puppy Chow And really addictive. And uses these. Recipe to follow. For now, I need to refresh my cocktail . Or whatever you want to call it. Questions: Have you been productive today?...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Pasta Raw Vegan Pasta & Marinara or Peanut Sauce, Vegan Coconut Oil Chocolate, Blogs You Read Hi Bloggie Friends! Well, the week’s half over and that’s a nice feeling , well for me it is! It seems life is busy and crazy as usual ’round here! I am trying to find my Inner Zen , I tell you! My email box and box of life, so to speak, is always overflowing!...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Slow Cooker Slow Cooker Green Chile Chicken 🫑🍗🍋 Slow Cooker Green Chile Chicken features tender, juicy chicken simmered with green chiles, jalapeño, salsa verde, onions, garlic, and spices for the most FLAVORFUL and versatile green chile chicken! Use it in tacos, burritos, casseroles, sandwiches, or as a meal prep recipe. Best of all, it’s SO EASY because your slow cooker does ALL the work!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Soft Baked Mini Cream Cheese Puffs These little puffballs came to be because another recipe failed. It’s so frustrating when that happens. But now I have a stellar recipe for cream cheese puffs that are ready in 15 minutes flat. Silver linings. The failed recipe was for vegan banana muffins with a brown sugar streusel. I have a great vegan banana muffin recipe and all I was changing was adding streusel to the top, but it was apparently too heavy for the eggless dough and the muffins collapsed ....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Strawberry Cheesecake Bars Strawberry Cheesecake Bars — Soft, buttery bars topped with cheesecake and swirled with strawberry jam! The best of all worlds in these fast, easy, and AMAZING bars!! Best Ever Strawberry Cheesecake Bars One of my favorite childhood breakfasts was a toasted bagel with cream cheese and strawberry jam. I took that same concept and made bars. And these bars definitely beat my bagel memories....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Stuffed My weekend has been stuffed. Not so much with this food . But more with life stuff. I’ve been cramming all kinds of things in before our trip . We leave in less than a week! I am so excited. But there’s so much to do beforehand. I addressed out 50 of our 2011 Holiday Cards to my nearest and dearest. It was a card-stuffing assembly line: card stuffed into envelope, lick, find the address from my computer files, address the envelop, apply return address label, apply stamp....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Valentine’s Day Treats Giveaway I know it’s a little early, but Valentine’s Day is just over a month away and will be here before you know it. It’s good to be prepared with edible gifts and the winner of this giveaway from Surprises by Mail can select from any one of the following items : toffee squares chocolate covered caramels chocolate covered Oreos...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes White Chocolate-Topped Cinnamon Chip Cinnamon Bars I love cinnamon so much that I usually at least double the amount called for in most recipes. And all that cinnamon is just perfect with white chocolate. If you’re a cinnamon aficionado, you’re going to love these easy, no-mixer bars that are ready in 30 minutes. They’re extra soft, tender, supple, and packed with cinnamon flavor....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken 15 Chicken Dinners Ready in 15 Minutes 15 Chicken Dinners Ready in 15 Minutes – EASY dinners that are ready in a flash and PERFECT for busy weeknights!! DELISH, healthy, and guaranteed to please your toughest dinner critics!! It’s back to school time and that means busy weeknights. Even if you don’t have kids, I remember the fall being the time when I got back into a cooking routine rather than being as casual and impromptu as I am in the summer....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies 20 Fast and Easy Desserts in Under 30 Minutes If life is as busy for you as it is for me, then these recipes should come in handy. Minimal prep times and brief baking times, and desserts that are satisfying, taste wonderful , and everyone will think you slaved over them. Sometimes the quick and easy recipes trump the far more time-consuming and complicated ones, and that’s what these recipe are about....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies 5 Minute Raw Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Here’s an easy, no-bake, quick little recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies that taste almost like oatmeal raisin cookie dough, but they’re safe to eat raw because they’re vegan, and oh so good. [print_this] 5 Minute Raw Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies – or Cookie Dough Balls (Gluten, Soy, & Dairy Free) 1/2 c dry oats (most oats are not technically raw but source true raw oats or certified gluten-free oats, if desired) 1/4 c pitted medjool dates (about 4-6 juicy, fresh dates) 1/4 cup raisins 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (I say, yes!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Banana Cream Pie Bars Banana Pudding Bars — Faster and easier than making a banana cream pie and taste AMAZING!! A crunchy crust, tender banana slices, luscious banana pudding, and creamy whipped topping make these layered pie bars WINNERS!! Easiest Banana Pudding Bars It’s been years since I’ve made a creamy banana pudding dessert until these easy banana cream pie bars came to life....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Boston Cream Icebox Cake Boston Cream Icebox Cake — Boston cream pie meets an eclair in an easy no-mixer, no-bake dessert! Vanilla pudding, whipped topping, graham crackers, and lots of chocolate! Perfect for parties or anytime you don’t want to turn on your oven!! Easy Pudding Icebox Cake Recipe What do you do when you have a sweet tooth in the summer and don’t want to turn on your oven?...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Creamy Saucy Chipotle Chicken Creamy Chipotle Chicken — When you’re in the mood for rich layers of flavor from chipotle sauce and roasted garlic-infused olive oil, this EASY skillet chicken recipe is PERFECT! There’s lots of creamy chipotle sauce that’s just begging to be sopped up in this family favorite Mexican-inspired recipe! Creamy Chicken in Chipotle Adobo Sauce When you’re in the mood for a comfort food, extra saucy and creamy chicken recipe, with layers of flavor, this chipotle chicken made in a skillet is just the ticket....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Yeast Breads Easy Sourdough Bread How to Make Sourdough Bread — This easy sourdough bread recipe uses yogurt and sour cream in place of a traditional sourdough starter, which makes it possible to prep a loaf in less than a day! Easy Homemade Sourdough Bread Recipe Homemade Sourdough Bread Ingredients How to Make Sourdough Bread Do I Have to Use a Dutch Oven?...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Granola Bars & Granola Granola, Granola Bars, & Oats I had a lucky streak with the mail last week: Books Water Chips And I just received some Granola from Love Grown Foods Their products are free from : Free of Refined Sugar Free of High Fructose Corn Syrup Free of Trans Fats Free of Hydrogenated Oils Free of Artificial Flavors Free of Preservatives Free of Gluten Free of Genetically Modified Ingredients This one was great....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Never Turned It On As most of the rest of the world was settling in to watch the Super Bowl, I was pumping gas at 3:15pm Sunday afternoon. While my tank was filling, this was my view. Gotta love iPhones. There as no way I was going to watch grown men ram and slam into each other when I could be doing far more productive things....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Overnight Caramel French Toast Casserole Caramel Overnight French Toast Casserole — EASY, soft, tender, and decadent French toast that’s coated in caramel sauce!! Assemble it the night before and wake up to an amazing breakfast or brunch that everyone will ADORE!! Caramel Overnight French Toast Bake This is possibly my new favorite French toast casserole, and my recipe for Overnight Syrup-On-The-Bottom French Toast is hard to top....