Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Guest Post: ShannonMarie of RawDorable How are you doing today? Are you feeling peaceful and mellow or a little stressed now that Christmas is just around the corner? If you celebrate, hopefully peaceful! If you missed my post on The Winter Solstice, Christmas, and Religion , check out my post yesterday (that was a trigger happy finger post …yikes but at least it was 95% the way I wanted it when it went out!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Halloween Costumes, Favorite Costume, Are You Dressing Up? Hi Friends! How’s your weekend going so far? Have you been up to anything fun? It’s been cold and dreary here but that hasn’t stopped us from getting a nice walk in as a family. Just seeing my husband is great. Talking is even better! Lots of working, busy schedules, traveling = not much overlapping time for us lately....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Honey Roasted Butterscotch White Chocolate Peanut Butter Honey Roasted Butterscotch White Chocolate Peanut Butter – There is nothing better than homemade peanut butter. Once you try a taste of homemade, you’ll never want storebought again. It’s fast, easy, and usually more cost-efficient to make your own at home. This is my favorite homemade peanut butter flavor to date. And that’s saying something because this blend had three very tough tough acts to follow....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Keeping a Sense of Humor, Pre-Thanksgiving Links Hi Friends! Tomorrow is the big day for those of us celebrating Thanksgiving! I hope you’re excited about the day. I have a really busy day today , and I’m sure most of you do, too. Many of you are probably traveling, or in the kitchen busy cooking, or maybe you’ve unplugged and aren’t checking email and blogs....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Life’s A Beach So do you like it? Huh? those of you reading in googlereader are asking. Anyway, the former bloggie background was an orangey, coral middle section with a semi-bright floral patten on the side. Think cantelope, sunny days, and summer. Well, it’s nearing fall and I wasn’t feelin’ the color scheme . I really am not an orange lover. Not to mention, I felt the orange background made all my food photos look a little off....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes My Thanksgiving Food & Recipes, Black Friday Shopping Hi Friends! Happy Black Friday! Are you going shopping today for any deals, or did you already? I am not and at the bottom of the post in my questions you can let me know your thoughts on Black Friday and if you’re a fan or not. But first it’s time to recap my Thanksgiving Recipes....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert No-Bake White Chocolate Cinnamon Toast Crunch Bars No-Bake White Chocolate Cinnamon Toast Crunch Bars — EASY, no-bake bars that are soft, chewy, supremely GOOEY, spiked with extra marshmallows, and white chocolate!! An IRRESISTIBLE hit with everyone!! Easy Cinnamon Toast Crunch Bars I went through a major no-bake bar phase from about 2010 to 2013 on my blog. Just look at the Related Recipes below to see some vintage recipes....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert PB & J Bars PB & J Bars – Super soft peanut butter bars topped with strawberry jelly, peanut butter chips, and a peanut butter drizzle!! Fast, EASY, and they’ll be your new FAVORITE way to eat PB & J!! Post is brought to you by Santa Cruz Organic. The recipe, images, text, and opinions expressed are my own. Peanut butter and jelly is an all-time classic that you can’t go wrong with....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peaches and Cream Fluffy Muffin Cake Peaches and Cream Cake — This cake tastes like one big, soft, fluffy, peach muffin. It’s ridiculously moist, tender, and falling-apart soft! Summer Peach Cake Recipe This cake tastes like a big, soft, fluffy, peach muffin. But making a cake is so much easier than making individual muffins, and I’m all for ease. With 2 cups of fruit, and just over 1 cup of flour, this cake is very heavy on the juicy, succulent fruit, and it stays supremely moist ....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Pies Sugar Cream Pie Old-Fashioned Sugar Cream Pie — This sugar cream pie reminds me a bit of crème brûlée! The filling is custard-like, and when topped with a sprinkle of cinnamon it’s irresistible! Easy Sugar Cream Pie Recipe Sugar Cream Pie Ingredients How to Make Sugar Cream Pie Recipe FAQs Tips for Making Sugar Cream Pie Sugar Cream Pie Recipe More Quick & Easy Pie Recipes: Easy Sugar Cream Pie Recipe A few years ago I made Crack Pie ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Sweet Potato Red Pepper and Coconut Milk Soup It’s fall and it’s soup season. Right? Well, sort of. It’s usually hotter in San Diego in September than it is all summer long and this September has been no exception. It’s been in the mid to high 80s in San Diego. Almost as hot here as it was in Aruba but I’m not complaining....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes The Ultimate Egg Muffin Breakfast Sandwich Get a load of this. It’s a two-handed number for sure. It also happens to be fast, easy, and on the healthier side. In less than 10 minutes you could be eating this sandwich rather than a bowl of cereal. I count that as a major breakfast win. Eggs pack a protein punch and I love my eggs with juicy tomatoes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Here are this week’s Thursday Things : Better Homes and Gardens interviewed me and featured me on their site I was flattered and honored when they asked me. Never in a million years would I have guessed when I was a little girl watching my mom read her BHG magazines that they’d be asking me for an interview . Life is full of surprises, isn’t it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Trainer Session & Progress, Recipe Published, Vegan Chocolate Coconut Snowballs, Pressure & Expectations, Does Blood Type Matter Hi Bloggies! How’s Your Day Going? Mine got off to an early start because I went to see my trainer as I had planned . We talked about my progress. He’s so happy about what I’ve been able to accomplish in just under two months , and so am I....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Woolly Earlier in the week I picked up some of this . I also picked up some replacement running gear at the Nike store , but it’s not new-to-me. I replaced these socks (recommended if you like padded socks for running), bought another pair of these pants because I’ve worn them every single day since I bought them and love them, and replaced these shoes that have 500 miles, give or take, on them....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes A Chill in the Air I may be jumping the gun here, but fall really seems to be in effect here. It’s chillier than it has been, a little overcast, and feels like it’s football tailgaiting weather <— which for me is my cue to head to the mall , not tailgate. Priorities. Lots of you were so surprised from my last post that I have only turned on my A/C once , for an hour , all summer....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blogging 105 This post is a continuation in my series of posts on Blogging. If you’ve missed any, go catch up: Blogging 101 Blogging 102 Blogging 103 Blogging 104 How to handle revealing yourself to the world when you start a blog. This is such a big question and I think depends on many variables: The nature or type of blog. A provide-a-new-recipe-with-each-post blogger is going to reveal less about herself than a healthy living blogger who is documenting her daily eats or her personal running goals....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › No-Bake Balls, Cookie Dough & Truffles Chocolate Covered Oreo Balls Hi Friends! I hope you’re having a relaxing weekend but I’m sure many of you are running around like crazy trying to get everything done before the holidays. Either baking, shopping, wrapping presents, or attending holiday parties. I’ve been busy baking. If you could call today’s recipe “baking”. I wanted to make these balls for my next door neighbor down here in Aruba who watches our house while we’re not here....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cakes & Cupcakes Classic Texas Sheet Cake Texas Sheet Cake – An EASY no-mixer recipe for classic Texas sheet cake that’s so rich in chocolate flavor thanks to the moist chocolate cake itself and to the chocolate frosting with walnuts for a bit of crunch in every bite! Ready in less than 1 hour, and it feeds a crowd, making this a perfect party or celebration cake any time of year!...

Home › Recipe Index › Appetizers Dill Pickle Cheese Ball Dill Pickle Cheese Ball — 🥒🧀🎉 Calling all dill pickle fans, this super EASY appetizer recipe is creamy, cheesy, and chock full of dill pickles, dill pickle relish, and plenty of fresh dill! When you’re looking for a fan FAVORITE recipe to serve at your next holiday party or event, backyard barbecue, picnic, or potluck, put this quick and simple recipe on the list!...