Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Cheesy Loaded Scalloped Potatoes This is my family’s dream food. Warm potatoes baked with sour cream, green onions, and topped with cheese. All the fixings of loaded baked potatoes are baked right into these tender, comforting, creamy, cheesy potatoes. What more could you ask for. I wouldn’t call the dish lite, but I tried to make it a little lighter. To make the cream sauce I omitted butter altogether and used lite sour cream mixed with Silk Unsweetened Cashewmilk ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Couldn’t Believe My Eyes I couldn’t believe my eyes when I opened up an email this morning with this link to Martha Stewart’s site. And at the very bottom of that screenshot, there’s a link to my Chocolate Saltine Toffee that the editors at Martha Stewart apparently found via Foodgawker Trust me when I say I nearly spit my coffee all over my screen in a state of disbelief because I seriously thought it was just a notification from one of those spammy sites that takes my content and reprints it in entirety on their site....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Espresso Maker How has Thursday been for you? Mine’s been really good because I went shopping! I’ll fill you in on my finds in just a hot second, but before I get to that, I am sooo glad you enjoyed & appreciated the Readers’ Recipes Tribute Post ! I’ve been wanting an Espresso maker for years. Recently Miss Meals-n-Moves Janetha had her shiny espresso maker in a post and that kinda sealed the deal that I just had to do it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Firecraker & Gratitude In honor of the 4th of July, I thought I’d list some of the things I’m grateful for and celebrating by using the word: F I R E C R A C K E R No actual firecrackers will be launched by me today. That was my past life. F is for Freedom. Words cannot express my gratitude toward the men and women who have served our country in the past, present and future; who have fought to defend our country and our freedoms....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Fudgy Eggnog Bars with Eggnog Glaze Fudgy Eggnog Bars with Eggnog Glaze — The eggnog equivalent of fudgy brownies crossed with eggnog fudge! Best use ever of eggnog!! Fudgy Eggnog Bars Recipe I’ve made versions of these bars with lemon , bananas , and pumpkin . Now it’s time for the eggnog edition. I usually want one or two mugs of eggnog per season, and then find myself with a whole carton to use....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Pudding & Mousse Hot Cocoa & Raw Vegan Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding How are you doing today? It’s Halloween!!! (unless you’re reading this still Friday night). It’s time to go devour a bag or two of candy! Just kidding, but a piece or two would probably hit the spot! What’s going on later today? Are you going out? Staying in to pass out candy?...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Mall Trip & St. Patrick’s Day I had a little trip to the mall over the weekend. I went back to my favorite mall . It’s dangerous that I can be there in five minutes. I was out of a couple Mac makeup items and needed to replenish. I picked up some studio fix powder, a new-to-me mineralized loose powder (not sure if I love this yet), and picked up some staples: pink freeze eyeshadow, bootblack liquid eyeliner…...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Remember 9/11 and My Thoughts, Weekend Pictures, Vitamin Review Hi Friends! How has your weekend been so far? What have you been up to? I’ve been working, savoring some great weather , and time with the fam. Nothing better. Scott travels a lot for work so I cherish our time together so very much. Hopefully you’re having a mellow, somewhat or very unplugged , kind of weekend....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Sweet-and-Sour Shrimp and Vegetable Stir Fry I love sweet-and-sour sauce and when it’s served in a restaurant I always need extra. And then extra of the extra. It just makes everything better. The stir fry reminds me of so many popular restaurant dishes. Except with far less salt, fat, grease, and it’s more budget-friendly. It’s a fast, easy recipe that the whole family will love and it’s ready in 20 minutes....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert The 15 Best Brownie Recipes The 15 Best Brownie Recipes – The BEST 15 scratch brownie recipes that are FAST, EASY, and decadent!! If you LOVE super fudgy, rich brownies and are a chocaholic, SAVE these recipes!! If you love chocolate and brownies, this is the brownie roundup to save that beats all. While boxes of brownie mix will suffice in a pinch, there’s nothing like scratch homemade brownies ....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads The Best Glazed Mixed Berry Scones Mixed Berry Scones — These homemade scones are incredibly EASY, NOT DRY, you don’t need to dirty a mixer, and are guaranteed-to-disappear weekend breakfast or brunch!! Made with common pantry and fridge ingredients and you can use frozen fruit!! The BEST American-Style Scone Recipe Ingredients in Mixed Berry Scones How to Make Scones Homemade Scones FAQs Recipe Variations to Try The Best Glazed Mixed Berry Scones Recipe More Breakfast Recipes Using Berries: The BEST American-Style Scone Recipe I’ve never been a big fan of scones because they’re usually dry, boring, and taste like flaky cardboard....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Trail Mix Protein Bar Cookies Well this is a first. I’ve made hundreds of different cookies between blogging and two cookbooks . And I’ve made Trail Mix Cookies , but I’ve never baked protein bars into cookies. The idea came to me in an effort to use some of the oodles of protein bars I bought. I go through spurts every couple years where I fall in love with protein bars, buy them by the case to save money, lose interest, forget about them, and move onto something else....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes What Are Those Black Things? Why, those are Dulse Flakes . They’re basically seaweed. I think Sea Vegetable sounds better, so we’ll go with that. Quicker than you can say Mona Vie Acai Berry, I decided to jump on the Dulse Flake Bandwagon . My friend VeggieGirl is a big fan and I’ve recently seen Gina sprinkle them on her salad beasts. Here’s a close-up of the Dulse Flakes laying ever so daintily across the rest of the Raw Veggie Goodness: *Greens *Yellow Peppers *Tomatoes *Cukes (Cucumbers for Justine :)) When I sent dear husband to WF to pick them up, I thought for some reason they came in a spicejar sized little container....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Willpower & Restraint Not only did I find new dishes over the weekend at Marshall’s, but in other errand-running matters, I had to go to The Mall . The prices at the mall are a little different than Marshall’s. So I had to exercise some willpower and restraint. I went to the mall to return the facial cleansers I bought at MAC . I just wasn’t loving them and I felt like they were irritating my skin and making me break out a bit, so I returned them....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes You Wouldn’t Believe It You wouldn’t believe some of the news I’ve had in the past week. I really could not even make this stuff up. I’ve had a couple life bombs dropped on me. And no, I’m not pregnant. I’m not going to blog about it until a few things are finalized. Remember Blogging 105 and that some mystery and privacy are ok and just common sense sometimes?...

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Apple, White Cheddar, and Spinach Salad with Honey-Apple Cider Vinaigrette Spinach Apple Salad with Cheddar & Cranberries — The flavors just POP in this fast, easy, and healthy spinach salad! There are so many wonderful textures and flavors in every bite you can’t help but like it! Easy Spinach Apple Salad Recipe Spinach Apple Salad Ingredients How to Make Spinach Apple Salad Recipe FAQs Other Dressings to Pair with Spinach and Apple Salad What to Serve with Spinach Apple Salad Apple, White Cheddar, and Spinach Salad with Honey-Apple Cider Vinaigrette Recipe More Easy Side Salads: Easy Spinach Apple Salad Recipe There are so many wonderful textures and flavors in every bite of this spinach apple salad, you can’t help but like it....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Chicken Chopped Salad Chopped Chicken Salad — An EASY chopped salad with so much FLAVOR and CRUNCH topped with PERFECT juicy oven-baked chicken that’s ready in 15 minutes!! Homemade honey apple cider vinaigrette adds the finishing touch!! Best Chopped Chicken Salad Recipe Ingredients in Chopped Chicken Salad What’s the Best Way to Cook Chicken for Salad? How to Make Chopped Chicken Salad Tips for the Best Chopped Salad Dressing Recipe FAQs Chicken Chopped Salad Recipe More Chicken Salad Recipes: Best Chopped Chicken Salad Recipe When you’re in need of a great tasting salad with juicy chicken, fresh tomatoes, crunchy cucumbers, crisp bell peppers, and creamy avocado over a bed of mixed greens, this chopped salad recipe is just what you need....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Fives I saw Chelsey post this fun little diddy and figured, what the heck. My turn! Last five people I talked to on the phone: Scott my sister a telemarketer (who somehow got my cell phone number) Scott Scott I basically don’t talk to anyone on the phone anymore. I have 20 second phone calls with Scott coordinating logistics or a quick hi/bye but everyone else sends me an email or a text....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Today is the big reveal day for the August posts for the Secret Recipe Club And these fugdy, chewy, very chocolatey chocolate cookies with hints of peanut butter undertones are what I am really excited to reveal! Last month, I made Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies Many of you have written to me to tell me that you’ve made these and you love the simplicity of the recipe and that the full-bodied peanut butter flavor has you hooked and you’re never going back to traditional PB cookies....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Green Action Jackson I have only purchased the unrefined coconut oil and although it’s probably healthier, both of the brands I’ve tried are just too much for me. I think I will try grapeseed oil in the future for oil alternatives because apparently that’s way more mild . As I mentioned at the end of the last post, it’s time for some Green Action …...