Home › Recipe Index › Dessert One-Bowl, No-Mixer, No-Chill, Extra-Large Chocolate Chip Cookie For One One-Bowl, No-Mixer, No-Chill, Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie For One — An incredibly FAST and EASY recipe that produces ONE extra-large soft and chewy cookie that’s loaded with chocolate!! One bowl to wash, no mixer, and no waiting!! Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie for One Recently I made these One-Bowl, No-Mixer, No-Chill Oatmeal Cookies and that recipe is awesome for so many reasons, which are self-explanatory given the title....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Returns & Nut Butter My Monday To Do List was a mile long: Went to Radio Shack to return a photo card reader that was a piece of crap. <–No other word for it. Proceeded to wait around for 20 minutes for a $17 dollar refund, and was seriously questioning if it was worth it because time is money. Went to Michael’s craft store to return a cork board I had bought but that started eroding and leaving black cork particles over everything the minute I unwrapped it....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees Sheet Pan Turkey Sausage and Vegetables Sheet Pan Turkey Sausage and Vegetables — An EASY, one-pan recipe the whole family will love!! Seasoned crisp-tender veggies, juicy sausage, and Parmesan cheese for the DELISH dinnertime WIN!! This post is brought to you by Butterball. Healthy Smoked Turkey Sausage Dinner Recipe If you’re like me, there are many nights that figuring out what to make for dinner seems like a daunting mystery....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies — 3 favorite cookies combined into 1 so you don’t have to choose!! Easy, no-mixer recipe, and always a hit! Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies I love finding recipe gems buried in my own archives. Recipes I’ve made years ago, forgotten about, and with just small changes, it’s new again....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Special K Bars This recipe takes me back to my childhood. But it almost didn’t happen. Grandma D’s Special K Bars 1/2 c Butter (or margarine), i.e. 1 stick 1 c Karo Syrup 1 c Brown Sugar Pinch Salt Bring to a boil and boil for 3 Minutes Then add 1/2 c Peanut Butter 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract & Stir...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Taste of the Tropics Smoothie Being in the warm weather in Aruba is the perfect opportunity to drink up. I didn’t add rum to this, but you could. Rum makes life more interesting. But even without the rum, just blend this up and pretend you’re on vacation. [print_this] Taste of the Tropics Smoothie 1 medium banana (previously frozen is ideal but not essential)...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes When It Rains When it rains in California, the world sort of stops. People suddenly cannot drive with even 1/100th of an inch of rain on the roads, i.e. your cat sneezes more water than actual rainfall amounts, and in general people hunker down and stay inside. This is not how I grew up. Far from it! I grew up in rural Minnesota where people went outside in -20F degree temperatures for much of the year and thought nothing of it....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Asian 15-Minute Skinny Vegetable Soba Noodles 15-Minute Skinny Vegetable Soba Noodles – 🍜💜💚 Comforting noodles in an Asian-flavored broth with crisp-tender veggies! An easy and filling recipe that’ll help you fit into your skinny jeans without sacrificing flavor! Easy Soba Noodles and Vegetables When I want something warmer than a salad yet something that still incorporates plenty of healthy vegetables, this is perfect. Part noodle bowl, part soup....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes 20 Memorial Day Party Recipes Where has 2012 gone? It’s almost half over! But now is the time of year to kick off summer, throw a party and have friends over, and enjoy some great food and drinks. These are all easy, no-fuss recipes that will please the party go-er’s and please the chef. Everything is no-bake or nearly no-bake and all are hassle-free....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes A Little Birdy Told Me The money that it’s costing me to replace it is almost $250 even though I have insurance (that’s half a Kitchen Aid stand mixer I was wanting to buy) compounded with not having my phone until the new one arrives (hopefully Wednesday), having to take time to re-set and re-program the new phone is all a royal pain. Plus, as many of you said, the sense of violation of that comes from having someone steal....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Bella I recently received these new-to-me bars called Bella Bars Bella Bars come in two flavors Cinnamon Nut and Chocolate Nut They’re all-natural, raw, vegan, and contain only 12 ingredients Well, okay, 13 ingredients for the chocolate nut flavor because of the cocoa powder The taste and texture of them is very Larabar -esque Dense, chewy, and sweet -ish , but not overly sweet because there’s no added sugar....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blogshop San Franciso Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore. Or San Diego. I’m in San Francisco for a little workshop called BlogShop . It’s a two-day workshop to try to help me learn Photoshop. Unfortunately for me, Photoshop is like algebra: it’s really hard, it’s not clicking without extreme mental effort, I wish I could cheat off someone else’s paper, and it will require me to just keep practice, practice, practicing it to get even a rudimentary grasp on it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Bon Voyage, Airline Travel Snags, Unplugging in December Hi Friends! Life has been crazy. We were supposed to depart late Friday night on a red-eye for our trip to Aruba but our flight was canceled at the 11th hour. I spent my day Friday re-booking our flight, but turns out we ended up having to leave five hours earlier than expected so my entire day Friday was a scramble fest....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Browned Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies Browned Butter Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies – SALTY-AND-SWEET, soft, and chewy chocolate chip cookies that are PERFECT!! An EASY, one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that’s just the BEST!! Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe I have dozens of chocolate chip cookie recipes on my site. After 9 years, it’s bound to happen because I like to keep trying out new recipes....

Home › Recipe Index › Christmas Recipes Cabernet Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Ganache And Sea Salt Red Wine Chocolate Cake (From Scratch!) — Now you don’t have to choose between dessert or wine since this is BOTH!! Rich chocolate cake spiked with Cabernet and topped with a silky ganache that also has Cabernet in it! Divine, amazing, MAKE THIS CAKE!! Moist Chocolate Wine Cake Recipe I have a recipe I posted years ago for Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache ....

Home › Recipe Index › Thanksgiving Recipes Cabernet Cranberry and Currant Sauce Cabernet Cranberry and Currant Sauce — Make your own EASY homemade cranberry sauce in 30 minutes!! This unique cranberry sauce recipe will be the star side dish of your holiday meal! Cranberries are so much BETTER with wine!! Unique Cranberry Sauce Recipe I have a recipe for Red Wine Cranberry Sauce that’s been insanely popular over the years....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Chicken with Mustard Cream Sauce and Pasta I have always been a mustard fan. Yellow, brown, grainy, Dijon, sweet, hot and spicy, I love them all. So a cream sauce made with both Dijon and grainy mustards is my idea of awesome. This easy, one-skillet chicken dish is ready in 30 minutes and has a perfectly tangy bite from the mustards that’s mellowed by the cream....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Chunky Apple Cinnamon Muffins Apple Cinnamon Muffins — These apple cinnamon muffins are studded with BIG chunks of apple! They’re so easy to make and are perfect for a quick snack or breakfast to-go. Basic Apple Cinnamon Muffins Ingredients in Apple Cinnamon Muffins How to Make Apple Cinnamon Muffins Tips for Making Apple Cinnamon Muffins Recipe FAQs Storage Instructions Vegan Apple Cinnamon Muffins Recipe More Apple Breakfast Recipes: Basic Apple Cinnamon Muffins These quick and easy apple muffins are full of chunky apple pieces and are spiced with cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg, which gives them a nice pop....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Comforts of Home Home Sweet Home. We’re back in San Diego after a very long trip back home from Aruba. Two, almost-five-hours-each, flights. With a couple hour layover in Atlanta. With a four year old, but she did great. Braids and all. She’s the only four year old who has the Delta 10 minute safety video nearly memorized word for word, complete with being able to gesture where the four rear exits and four front exits and the two exits over the wings are located....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Friday Finds In no particular order or significance, here are a few Friday Finds: This wrought-iron heart-shaped gate I love wrought-iron work and swirls. The pattern me of my first armband tattoo. Not to be confused with my half sleeve . Sugar snap peas dipped in Mango Ginger Chutney Jars and jars of this stuff have found their way into my tummy cupboards....