Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peanut Sauce Recipe & Bowled Over Sunday morning. Ahh…after breakfast in bed, a 2 hour massage, and luxuriating over the newspaper, I decided to take a bubble bath. Just kidding!!!!!! I have a 2.5 year old so none of that has happened in years. And it probably won’t for a few more. But it’s a nice thought. As a consolation prize for the non-existent brekkie in bed, on Saturday for a quick minute I dashed out to a little vegetarian cafe herb store kinda place called Chakra4Herbs ....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Yeast Breads Raisin Bread for Raisin Lovers Cinnamon Raisin Bread for Raisin Lovers – 🍞🙌🏻 Chewy and has a hearty outer crust with a dense, soft, and moist interior. It’s excellent toasted with butter and sprinkling of cinnamon-sugar. If you’ve ever wanted to make your own cinnamon raisin bread (with extra raisins) this is the PERFECT easy recipe to try! How To Make Cinnamon Raisin Bread How Does Homemade Cinnamon Raisin Bread Taste Raisin Bread for Raisin Lovers Recipe I know there are people who don’t like raisins....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thanksgiving Day: My Food & Recipes But first, I am glad you enjoyed my post on Gratitude yesterday and again, I am sooo thankful for everything and everyone I have in my life. Everything from my husband and daughter to yoga to my faithful blog readers . Check it out if you missed that post. But let’s move on to my Thanksgiving Day Food & Recipes!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert The 20 Best Banana Bread Recipes The 20 BEST Banana Bread Recipes – Have ripe bananas? These recipes are just what you need – including banana bread with blueberries, zucchini, carrots, pumpkin, in a slow cooker, in an air fryer – these recipes have you covered!! Bonus: every single recipe is a no-mixer recipe!! Cream Cheese-Filled Banana Bread — This is one of the BEST homemade banana bread recipes!...

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Thick and Fluffy Mini Buttermilk Pancakes Thick and Fluffy Mini Pancakes — Your search for PERFECT buttermilk pancakes is over!! EASY, soft, fluffy, light, and the THICKEST pancakes I’ve ever made thanks to a special TRICK!! Easy Buttermilk Pancakes From Scratch Mini pancakes are such a treat. Because everyone knows mini food just tastes better. Buttermilk keeps them tender, light, fluffy, not at all heavy, and these are the thickest, fluffiest buttermilk pancakes I’ve ever made....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Muffins Very Blueberry Vegan GF Muffins, Changing Recipes & Saving Kitchen Fails, Milestones & Reflections Hi Bloggies! How’s your weekend going so far? For those of us on the west coast, we’re barely awake but you east coast people have probably run 12 miles or something like that already. I am going to savor my time with Scott and Skylar the next couple days because he’s traveling this week for work....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies White Chocolate Vanilla Marshmallow Cake Bars I love white chocolate. And I have a thing for layered bars Some people say white chocolate is too sweet. Are you kidding me? Nothing is too sweet for me. Nothing. Those same people who complain about desserts being “too sweet” will probably say these bars are “too rich” for them. Nothing is too rich for me....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Almond Cream Cheese Shortbread Bars Almond Cream Cheese Bars — An easy, buttery shortbread crust is topped with cream cheese and irresistible almond frosting!! These cookie bars taste like something you’d buy at a bakery! Almond & Cream Cheese Cookie Bars I love almond extract more than almonds themselves. I could bathe in it. And I can eat frosting that’s made with almond extract by the spoonful....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Balsamic Chicken, Brussels Sprouts, Cranberries and Pumpkin Seeds Cranberry Balsamic Chicken Skillet — EASY, hearty, HEALTHY, one-skillet dish that’s ready in 20 minutes!! Juicy chicken, crisp-tender Brussels sprouts, chewy cranberries and crunchy pumpkin seeds! Easy One-Pan Balsamic Chicken Recipe Just say the word balsamic and I’m in. How I love thee. Especially with Brussels sprouts, which are my favorite vegetable. Or tied with broccoli, I can’t decide....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Beachy Saturday the weather in Aruba was overcast and looked like it was going to rain for most of the day, but Sunday turned out to be great. It wasn’t crystal clear blue skies all day, but it was nice enough for the bulk of the afternoon that we had a great time as a family at the beach. Sun and fun. After the beach, we came home and jumped in the pool to get all the sand off....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Bests & Winner I had a day to beat all on Friday. From the moment I woke up, to the moment I plan to go to sleep (about 22 hours after I woke up), it’s been manic. There were a few bests… The best thing I looked at was the blue sky and sunshine. 75F and sunny in San Diego. And the pink hibiscus was another best....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Caramel Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Gooey Bars I’ve made so many bars over the years, but I have some favorites. These are a hybrid of the ones that I especially love. They’re fast and easy to make, use only one bowl, no mixer, and people go nuts for them. There’s something for everyone in these drippy delights. The bars remind me most of Carmelitas because they’re just so gooey, soft and slightly chewy, and loaded with chocolate chips....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Cowboy Bark: Trader Joe’s Copycat Recipe Have you tried Cowboy Bark ? If you haven’t, don’t even start. It’s so addictively good. Which is why I’m not sure why I made my own bark that’s every bit as good as the real deal. Having the ability to make bulk quantities is dangerous since I can down a bag of the Trader Joe’s version in a day if I let myself....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Muffins Cranberry White Chocolate Muffins White Chocolate Cranberry Muffins — Soft, fluffy, and bursting with cranberries in every bite! Perfect way to use your fresh cranberries!! Fresh Cranberry Muffin Recipe It’s that time of year for cranberries. I just love cranberries and they’re perfect in these muffins. Sweet white chocolate pairs perfectly with the cranberries and balances their tartness. It’s one of my favorite flavor combinations....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Do-It-Yourself Guacamole Bar I’ve always loved guacamole but my consumption this summer has been off the charts. So much so that creating my own guac bar is only fitting. If you’re like me, you don’t have to throw a party to set out a spread like this. I can down this by myself on a random Monday. I’ve made more meals out of The Best Peach Mango Salsa and guacamole than I can count....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Easy Chocolate Pots de Crème Easy Chocolate Pots de Crème — No-bake, no-cook, and made in a blender in 5 minutes!! The PERFECT dessert! Rich, decadent, a chocolate lover’s dream, perfect for special occasions, and guaranteed to impress!! Blender Pot de Crème Recipe Chocolate Pots de Crème Ingredients How to Make Chocolate Pots de Crème Make-Ahead Instructions Recipe FAQs Tips for Making Chocolate Pots de Crème Easy Chocolate Pots de Crème Recipe More No-Bake Chocolate Desserts: Blender Pot de Crème Recipe If you are looking for easy chocolate desserts AND one that is sure to impress anyone who has the pleasure of trying it, look no further than this extremely simple recipe for chocolate pots de crème....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Easy One-Skillet Sausage and Peppers with Rice 💛💚❤️ This Italian Sausage, Peppers & Onions Skillet is the perfection option when you’re wondering what to make with hot Italian sausage! This EASY one skillet recipe combines Italian sausage and peppers with sweet Vidalia onions and rice to make a QUICK dinner that’s ready in 30 minutes! One-Skillet Italian Sausage with Peppers and Onions Ingredients for Skillet Sausage, Peppers and Onions How to Make Sausage, Peppers & Onions What to Serve with This sausage, peppers, and onions skillet Recipe FAQs Recipe Video Tutorial Italian Sausage, Peppers & Onions Skillet Recipe More Sausage Dinner Recipes: One-Skillet Italian Sausage with Peppers and Onions I’m all about easy, one-skillet dinners that are ready in 30 minutes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes First Post & Raw Vegan Chocolate Brownie Love! Welcome to my blog! Thank you for stopping by and seeing what I am up to. I started this blog because I have been so inspired by all the awesome, wonderful, thoughtful, creative, and funny bloggers in the foodie blogosphere. You all inspire me to keep cooking, keep making things, keep trying new things, and you keep me laughing with some of your posts when I need the Laugh Break!...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Fish Honey Dijon Salmon Honey Dijon Salmon — EASY, ready in 20 minutes, juicy, tender, and so FLAVORFUL from the honey, Dijon, and lemon juice!! If you’re trying to incorporate more fish in your diet, this is THE RECIPE to make!! Easiest Honey Dijon Salmon Everywhere I turn, I read that salmon is so good for you and that you should try to eat more of it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes KISS + Winner Summertime is all about the simple things for me. Ok, anytime is all about the simple things for me if I’m being honest. I am too busy for anything other than the KISS principle, i.e. Keep It Simple, Sweetie I use the KISS principle with everything in life. Which is why food lately, and most times, has been fresh, raw, and crunchy....