Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Peanut Butter and Jelly Blondies Peanut butter and jelly never gets old. Especially when it’s baked into bars. I made these blondies while I was in Aruba but held off on posting them until now because I made them on the heels of these Coconut White Chocolate Chip Blondies and didn’t want to overwhelm anyone with blondies. I tweaked my go-to blondie recipe and the simplicity of melting a stick of butter in the microwave, adding peanut butter, brown sugar, an egg, vanilla, flour and giving it a stir makes this such a fast batter to make....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peanut Noodles with Mixed Vegetables and Peanut Sauce I love peanut sauce and I firmly believe that anything slathered in peanut sauce automatically goes from good to great. Including simple rice noodles and whatever vegetables are lingering in the crisper drawer. Now that school has started and dinners need to happen quickly and easily, I’m all about five minute dinners. Yes, this is a five minute meal....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Plugging Along & Bigfoot I’ve sure been plugging along and keeping busy this week, and the weekend is in sight which is great. The weather was gorgeous here on Wednesday and the trend is continuing today. Low 80s, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. Just one of those days that makes me happy to be alive! When it’s warm out, fruit tastes especially good....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Tofu & Tempeh Pumpkin Honey Tofu Hi Friends! How was your weekend? Mine flew by at warp speed! I had a great weekend, full of family time with Scott and Skylar, some time in the kitchen, and a few crazy shenanigans, too. Hopefully you made the most of your summer weekend because they are so precious. Here’s a few pictures I snapped on our stroll through Balboa Park today...

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Soft Vegan Pumpkin Bread with Brown Sugar Streusel Topping Vegan Pumpkin Bread with Streusel Topping — Moist pumpkin bread is flavored with five kinds of spices for maximum fall flavor and topped with an irresistible streusel topping! Vegan Pumpkin Streusel Bread Recipe Vegan Pumpkin Bread Ingredients How to Make Vegan Pumpkin Bread Recipe FAQs Storage Instructions Tips for the Best Vegan Pumpkin Bread Soft Vegan Pumpkin Bread with Brown Sugar Streusel Crust Recipe More Vegan Fall Recipes: Vegan Pumpkin Streusel Bread Recipe This vegan pumpkin bread is so soft and moist, you won’t miss the eggs or butter one bit....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Taco-Stuffed Avocados Taco-Stuffed Avocados — Like avocados? Then you are going to LOVE these taco STUFFED avocados with ground beef, CHEESE, and more!! EASY, ready in 15 minutes, a family favorite, and perfect for busy weeknights!! Post is brought to you by Horizon Organic. Healthy Stuffed Avocado Recipe I was recently in Mexico and was eating at one of my favorite taco restaurants. It’s a no-frills restaurant with long lines where people are literally sitting on top of each, but the food is so amazing that it’s all worth it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes We’re Home, Errand Mania, Happy 2010! How are you fine bloggie friends doing today? Well, I’m alive. Let’s just say our journey home from Paradise was long, about 22 hours door-to-door. Skylar did amazingly well. Scott and I, well, we’re a little tired. But did that stop me from at 11pm local Arizona time (2am Aruba time) unpacking 3+ weeks worth of suitcases, or getting laundry started, or sorting a month’s worth of mail and packages?...

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Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Donuts Baked Savory Cream Cheese & Herb Donuts These are technically donuts but they’re savory so I don’t think of them as ‘donuts’. I think of them more like a bagel or technically they’d be classified as a quick bread. Yes, they are quick. And yes, they are filled with cream cheese that’s been baked into them. If you look closely into that hole you can see the cream cheese....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Fit For A President Happy President’s Day to everyone celebrating it. If you’re off from work or school, I consider that “celebrating” the day. If you’re at work or school, I think it’s safe to assume that it’s just another Monday, which I hope has been great as well. A few things that I think are pretty large and in charge and fit for a President include:...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Loaded M&M Oreo Cookie Holiday Bars Loaded Holiday M&M’s Cookie Bars — These M&M’s cookie bars are packed with holiday M&M’s and crushed Oreos. This is an easy, one-bowl holiday dessert your family will love! Loaded Christmas Bar Cookies These M&M’s cookie bars are famous. Well, maybe not these exact bars but the original recipe is. The original recipe has been Pinned over 1 million times and appeared on the cover of Taste of Home Magazine in 2014....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Messy Cook I’ve had a busy day in the kitchen whipping up a light, fat-free, vegan dessert. Kidding. I also added lots of sugar and vanilla extract to the batter. Which I proceeded to drip and dribble all over my coutertops. Oh well. The final result is so.well.worth.it. Sorry to tease, but that recipe will not be ready for a few days so in the meantime, may I suggest a few other options that are similarly decadent to what I just made:...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars — So much better than a bowl of plain oatmeal!! Easy, portable baked oatmeal bars perfect for snacks or breakfast on-the-go!! Easy Baked Oatmeal Bars This is my idea of oatmeal. Smothered with chocolate chips and a hearty dose of peanut butter stirred in. It’s like eating oatmeal in portable form, except better....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cakes & Cupcakes Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake – Fast, EASY, and the moistest pumpkin cake you’ll ever taste!! Loaded with chocolate chips in every bite and topped with a heavenly chocolate ganache! Sinfully rich and decadent!! This cake is giving me flashbacks because I made a pumpkin chocolate chip Bundt cake back in 2012. I loved that cake so much that I also put it in my second cookbook ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Sprinkles and Shoes Today I spent some time playing with green sprinkles since St. Paddy’s Day is right around the corner. There was also some of my favorite melted chocolate involved. The day was off to a good start for me. It was also off to a good start for Skylar because she got new Jambu shoes yesterday. They’re perfect for warmer weather, and for San Digeo weather in general, because her feet can breathe but there’s still a closed toe and an eco-friendly recycled rubber sole....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Stevia Fan, Cooking & Baking with Stevia Hi Friends! How was your first 2011 Monday? Mine was wet and cold . But it did get better because the 4 bottles of stevia from iHerb.com that I ordered arrived. Not familiar with iHerb.com ? They carry thousands of products. Never pay retail again on everything from probiotics to body wash to protein powders to supplements to stevia....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Time for this week’s Thursday Things : When I was on the Avocado Tour a couple Saturdays ago, Scott took Skylar to the mall and they went into the Disney store. She’s been talking about these “pink sparkle boots” at least nine times a day, every day, since then. She’s five years old and weeks later, she’s not pining away for toys, dolls, or wishing she had a playdate with a friend or that we’d take her to the movies....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things | June 7, 2012 Here are this week’s Thursday Things : I’m loving Bravo TV even more so than usual because there are multiple cities of housewives happening. The Real Housewives of Orange County , New York (and what do you think of the new ladies?), and the New Jersey ladies are all on. Some seasons are beginning, some are ending. It’s a good thing my DVR is smart enough to just do its job and just record so I don’t have to keep track of what’s on and when....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Here are this week’s Thursday Things : The Huffington Post ran a featured titled Coconut Dessert Recipes For Cookies, Cakes, and More And they showcased my Mounds Bar Chocolate Coconut Cake Mix Cookies (Slide 1 in the slideshow) I saw Shelly discuss her kitchen favorites and she mentioned she loves her Butter Bell because it keeps butter fresh at room temperature for 30 days, without refrigeration....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Trainer Session & Progress Pics, No Bake Vegan PB Coconut Oil Protein Bars, Kale Chips, Why Exercise Hi Friends! How’s Your Day Going? Mine got off to a bright and early start because I went and saw my trainer who’s training me for my Natural Bodybuilding Show . I don’t see him very often, just every other week or so, but it’s nice to have someone to bounce things off....