Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Gooey Butter Chocolate Chip Shortbread Bars Gooey Butter Chocolate Chip Shortbread Bars — A buttery shortbread crust topped with a creamy, buttery topping that’s almost like custard!! The bars live up to their gooey, buttery name!! Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookie Bars “Let’s see how much butter I can cram into an 8×8-inch pan” was what I was thinking when I made the bars....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Quickbreads Honey Maple Beer Bread Honey Beer Bread — The easiest beer bread ever! No kneading, no yeast, and guaranteed soft and fluffy results every time! Quick Beer Bread Recipe I hate beer. But I loved this bread. You will too. And it’s ridiculously easy. Hate may be too strong of a word about my feelings for beer, but not really. In college, if the choice was drink beer at a party because it’s all there was or stay sober, I stayed sober ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Just Noochy & Food Trivia Yesterday my iHerb.com order arrived. And thank goodness the order arrived just 48 hours after I placed it (and I didn’t even pay for expedited shipping because anything over $40 ships for free with standard shipping) because I was out of nooch. Oh, the horrors! Looking into the empty can was giving me panic attacks. What would I ever do without nooch?...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Loaded M&M Oreo Cookie Bars Loaded M&M’s Oreo Bars — Stuffed to the max with M&M’s and Oreos! These Oreo cookie bars are an easy, no-mixer recipe that’s ready in 30 minutes. Always a hit at parties! The Best Oreo Cookie Bars If you like Oreos and M&M’s, these are the bars for you. Is there anyone who doesn’t like Oreos and M&M’s?...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Tofu & Tempeh Mango Ginger Maple Tofu Hi Friends! Do you have today off work or school because it’s a legal holiday here? I hope you have it off and that your weekend was relaxing, wonderful, and awesome! Scott had to get back to work today so Skylar and I went to the gym, ran some errands, and I dreamt up some new recipes!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Overnight Gingerbread French Toast Breakfast Bake I love a good make-ahead breakfast. Especially when it’s buttery soft French toast that tastes a lot like soft gingerbread and molasses cookies. This is my last holiday-related recipe. While I don’t usually miss certain foods and flavors because as a blogger all I need to do is blink and it’s back to pink pastel things for Easter or an abundance of apple and pumpkin recipes in the fall, I will miss being able to blog at will about molasses and ginger....

Home › Recipe Index › Thanksgiving Recipes Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake — Like a gooier, richer version of pumpkin pie with a spice cake crust!! Butter + cream cheese = lives up to its GOOEY name! Make it for Thanksgiving instead of pumpkin pie!! Ooey Gooey Pumpkin Cake Recipe This pumpkin butter cake is more like a gooey, very rich pumpkin pie bar or piece of pumpkin pie with a spice cake crust....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Shopping for Kitchen Appliances When I was at Bed Bath and Beyond buying my cake pop maker and donut pan , I saw lots of other fun goodies. Like a popcorn maker A Cotton Candy Maker Pretzel Maker Pigs In a Blanket Makers. I really don’t think these are flying off the shelves but I could be wrong. The seasonal baking goodies were out in full force....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes The Best Pumpkin Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting The Best Pumpkin Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting — A marriage of pumpkin cake and carrot cake into one soft, moist, tender, and amazing cake!! The tangy cream cheese frosting is truly the icing on this easy cake!! Moist Pumpkin Carrot Cake Recipe I love pumpkin cake and I love carrot cake . I married two of my favorite cakes into one super soft, moist, and tender cake that’s topped with tangy cream cheese frosting....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Tickets Purchased My weekend flew by in a whirlwind. I can’t believe it’s Monday already. How did that happen? I worked. And I tackled household cleaning projects, did lots of laundry, ran some errands, went grocery shopping, did blog and computer work, cooked, did my fair share of dishes, and other similarly thrilling domestic chores. I also bought our airfare to Aruba We’re leaving in early December with open-ended return tickets....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Vegan GF Peanut Butter Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies with Peanut Flour I tried my hand with peanut flour for these cookies and it was my first time working with it and here’s what I came up with. [print_this] Vegan GF Peanut Butter Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies with Peanut Flour 1/2 c Vegan Butter (room temperature, softened) 1 c White Sugar 1/2 c Brown Sugar 1/4 c Water Cream these ingredients together...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Seafood 10-Minute Lemon Butter Shrimp and Broccoli Healthy Shrimp and Broccoli — An EASY and healthy meal that’s ready in no time, made on ONE sheet pan, and full of FLAVOR!! Perfect for quick lunches and busy weeknights!! Healthy Shrimp and Broccoli Recipe When you’re chicken’ed out and in the mood for something different, this super fast and easy lemon butter shrimp and broccoli is the ticket....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes A Little Santa a Little Early, Holiday Traditions Hi Friends! How has your Christmas Eve day been? Santa dropped off one of Skylar’s gifts a day early. Mommy needed a new toy to help entertain Skylar since it’s been raining all day. Santa was kind enough to deliver this one, a day early. It was either a new toy, or lots of this ....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Fish Beer Battered Shrimp Tacos with Lime Crema Beer Battered Shrimp Tacos with Lime Crema – Fast, EASY, restaurant-quality tacos at home!! Juicy beer-battered shrimp, avocado, cheese, and a zesty lime crema to top it off! Perfect for weeknight dinners and easy entertaining!! San Diego is known for some world-renowned fish tacos but you don’t have to come here to enjoy these mouth-watering beer battered shrimp tacos....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Better-Than-Anything Chocolate Cake Better-Than-Anything Cake — Worthy of its name and one of the BEST cakes you will EVER eat!! Doesn’t get any better than chocolate, caramel, whipped topping, and candy in an easy, no-mixer cake!! A must-make!! Classic Chocolate Poke Cake Recipe I’m sure you’ve heard of this cake. It’s been around since the 1970’s and goes by another name. I’m refraining from the full name so the recipe doesn’t end up in spam folders or mis-categorized by Google....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blogger Meetup, Whole Foods, Bar Verdicts, Yellow & Green All Over Hi Bloggies! How’s your Tuesday been? I carried on with my Tuesday Blogger Meetup Trend Today! Remember last Tuesday’s Meetup with Maureen ? Well, I had another Tuesday Blogger Meetup today! But today’s meetup was with the amazing Alyson of Nourished Fitness ! Alyson radiates energy, vibrancy, and is so positive and energetic!...

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Quickbreads Carrot Pineapple Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting Glazed Banana Pineapple Bread — Ultra moist, soft, and tender thanks for the box of vanilla pudding added to the batter! The pineapple lends a sweet, tropical flavor to the banana bread! Easy Pineapple Banana Bread Recipe If there’s something I love as much as banana bread, I also hold carrot cake very near and dear....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Mexican Food & Drinks, Saying No Thank You to Certain Foods, Golf Carts, New Gym Location Hi Friends! Hopefully you’re having a nice day. It’s still super hot here, low 90s, but a cool front is supposed to move through tonight so it will get cooler. I love hot weather, but as I mentioned, I have a cold and I just don’t enjoy being sick, and hot....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Oranges Oranges were on sale at the grocery store today and I picked up a big bag of them and got my orange groove going in the kitchen. Among other things, I made a batch of Cranberry & Orange Ginger Mango Chutney which had the added bonus of making my house smell phenomenal. I had picked up an extra bag of cranberries before Thanksgiving, but never made anything with them before we left for Aruba on December 2....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peanut Butter Comparison I love peanut butter and to be without it, even when traveling and away from home, just isn’t something I prefer. While in Aruba , I got a little adventurous and tried some of the peanut butter sold in the local Aruban grocery stores. Key word is adventurous since I can’t read Dutch and many products are imported from Holland because Aruba is a Dutch island....