Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals Pepperoni Pizza Baked Beans Pepperoni Pizza Baked Beans – PIZZA-inspired flavors in this EASY recipe that works great as an appetizer, side dish, or FAST weeknight dinner!! Tomatoes, oregano, pepperoni, and oodles of melted CHEESE!! I eat beans quite often but try to refrain from pizza. The carbs, salt, and grease tastes amazing but isn’t great for my pants size. Enter these baked beans with pizza-inspired flavors including juicy tomatoes, pizza sauce, oregano, mini pepperoni, and oodles of gooey melted mozzarella cheese....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Public Displays of Affection, Chips and Dip, Vegan Vanilla Softserve Hi Friends! How are you doing today? I am so happy it’s Thursday and that the weekend is almost here. And for US readers, a holiday weekend at that. Yay! Today I went to the gym, did a quick fill-in grocery run since my farmer’s market produce stash wasn’t going to quite hold us until Sunday when I can go back to the market....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Rainy Day Meetup & Doughy or Baked Yesterday I met my friend Amber for a coffee and girl talk at Corner Bakery . The meetup was wonderful, even though the photos aren’t. No kids, no men, just us. And Amber’s sprained ankle courtesy of a racquetball injury. Poor thing that she has to wear flats which is very un- Amber like. She’s normally in heels....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Sheet Pan Orange Ginger Chicken and Vegetables Sheet Pan Orange Ginger Chicken and Vegetables — Fast, EASY, HEALTHY, and loaded with great orange ginger flavor!! A DELISH one-pan meal with zero cleanup that’s perfect for busy weeknights!! Easy Baked Ginger Chicken Recipe I love sheet pan recipes because easy, tasty, flavorful meals that are ready in 20 minutes are where it’s at. The chicken is tender, juicy, and infused with lovely orange ginger flavor from orange zest, orange juice, and plenty of ginger....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Slow Cooker Slow Cooker Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Crockpot Chocolate Chip Banana Bread — Think slow cookers are only for soups and savory recipes? Think again because you can make this soft, tender, moist banana bread in your Crockpot and it’s SO EASY! This no-mixer banana bread is loaded with chocolate chips in every bite and a family FAVORITE! Now you know what to do with your ripe bananas!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Stop and Chill a Bit Kitchen creations have been a little limited the past 48 hours, but…. I made my best batch of Vita-Mix dairy free ice cream ever . I think I’ve got this one licked. Took me almost a year to figure out the ratios and the blend time in the ‘Mixa but I think I finally got it. *2 frozen nannas *1/4 c vanilla almond milk *1/4 c sugar (the WF brand stevia I have is too nast to use in larger quantities so til I get another brand, I can only use stevia in very small doses) *dash vanilla extract *blend for about 45 seconds…no more!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › No-Bake Balls, Cookie Dough & Truffles White Chocolate-Dipped Oreo Cookie Balls No-Bake Oreo Balls — This Oreo balls recipe uses just 4 simple ingredients! If you’re looking for an easy no-bake dessert for cookie swaps or gift exchanges, this is it! No-Bake Oreo Balls Recipe I think we’ve all had these Oreo cookie balls. And if you haven’t, you’d better hop to it and make them....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals 100-Calorie Cheese, Vegetable and Egg Muffins Healthy Egg Muffins — Portable baked egg muffin cups that you can enjoy without worry! These healthy egg muffins are stuffed with protein, veggies, and cheese. The best kind of breakfast! Or snack. Or dinner. Make-Ahead Egg Muffins Recipe Ingredients in Healthy Egg Muffins How to Make Baked Egg Muffins Make-Ahead Instructions Recipe FAQs Tips for Making Healthy Egg Muffins Recipe Video Tutorial 100-Calorie Cheese, Vegetable and Egg Muffins Recipe More Egg Breakfast Recipes: Make-Ahead Egg Muffins Recipe I thought these egg breakfast muffins would be a good way to sneak in a few extra servings of vegetables and protein for my family....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals 15-Minute Honey Mustard Chicken Skillet 15-Minute Honey Mustard Chicken Skillet — If you like dipping your chicken in honey mustard, you’re going to LOVE every bite of this chicken that’s coated in homemade honey mustard sauce!! Fast, EASY, juicy, tender, and made in one skillet!! Easy Recipe for Honey Mustard Chicken Ingredients for Skillet Honey Mustard Chicken How to Make Honey Mustard Chicken Skillet Honey Mustard Chicken FAQs Tips for the Best Honey Mustard Chicken Sauce What to Serve with Honey Mustard Chicken Ways to Use Honey Mustard Chicken 15-Minute Honey Mustard Chicken Skillet Recipe More Easy Chicken Skillet Meals: Easy Recipe for Honey Mustard Chicken This is an easy weeknight dinner chicken skillet recipe made on the stove that’s guaranteed to be a family favorite!...

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Eggs 15 Favorite Breakfast and Brunch Recipes If you need fast and easy breakfast and brunch recipes that everyone will love, this collection has you covered. Here are 15 of my favorites! Overnight Buttermilk Soft and Fluffy Cinnamon Rolls – Move over Cinnabon, this recipe is my favorite! Soft, fluffy, and you can start them at night so all you have to do in the morning is pop them in the oven!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Baked Parsnip Fries with Creamy Balsamic Reduction Dip Parsnip Fries – So easy, fast, and healthier than fries. My husband loves potatoes in any form and thought he was eating French fries. Until I told him he just inhaled a plate of parsnips. What’s a parsnip, he asked? Good question. Parsnips are a root vegetable and they have more in common with carrots than with potatoes....

Home › Recipe Index › Air Fryer Banana Bread for Two Air Fryer Banana Bread For Two — You’ll never guess HOW this easy, no-mixer bread is baked!! It’s super soft, tender, moist, and the perfect mini banana bread loaf for two!! Small Loaf Banana Bread for Two Over the years I’ve made 40+ kinds of banana bread , but this version is different in two major ways. First, it’s small enough for two....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blogging 104 This post is a continuation of: Blogging 101 Blogging 102 Blogging 103 Blogging 105 Picking up where we left off : Product Reviews Bloggers must make the decision if this is something she wants to do or not. Some bloggers do them, some don’t. I have run the gamut from doing lots to doing almost none. I enjoy sharing my thoughts, knowledge, and opinions about various products that I am sent for review but I also don’t want readers to get turned off or feel like my blog is an informercial for that product or products in general....

Home › Recipe Index › Beverages › Smoothies Blueberry Banana Recovery Smoothie This past week we had a hot snap in San Diego. 95F and sunny. It was hotter here for a couple days this past week than it was all summer, but I loved every hot and sweaty second of it. After a run outside, I needed something quick and easy to replenish my stinky self thirsty self. I always have a tub of frozen banana chunks and other fruit odds and ends like peaches, mangoes, mixed berries, plums, or blueberries, too....

Home › Recipe Index › Christmas Recipes Cut-Out Coffee Cup Cookies Cut-Out Coffee Cup Cookies — Soft, buttery sugar cookies cut out in the shape of coffee cups and decorated with red and white royal icing! These sugar cookies are PERFECT for Christmas as well as for wintertime parties and entertaining. No one will be able to resist these unique beauties! Cut-Out Coffee Cup Cookies Recipe There’s nothing like decorated sugar cookies to put me in the holiday spirit....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Hydrate Keep cool in the summertime heat and make sure you stay well-hydrated. You know, with caffeine or booze. They’re such wonderful rehydrators and replenishers. Vanilla Iced Coffee Sex on the Beach Vanilla Baileys Slushie – late night photography at its finest Make some Baileys-infused Homemade Peanut Butter while you’ve got the Baileys out You can always round out your hydration with something a little healthier....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes I Heard… I heard… That Kim Kardashian filed for divorce just 72 days after she and Kris Humphries got married. I guess I spoke too soon . The optimist in me thought it would last. At least longer than 72 days. Hypothetically, if the wedding had a $10 million dollar price tag, divided by days married, that’s $138,888 per day that it “cost” to be married....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Monster Cookies Monster Cookies — My recipe for classic monster cookies that are chock full of creamy peanut butter, oats, chocolate chips, and M&M’s makes both kids and adults reach for just one more cookie! Fast, EASY, soft, perfectly chewy, and they’ll become a family FAVORITE in no time! The Best Recipe for Monster Cookies I remember growing up with monster cookies and to this day, I am a sucker for any type of cookie with oatmeal, peanut butter, and chocolate chips!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Nutella Chocolate Chip Baklava Nutella Chocolate Chip Baklava – The baklava is extremely rich and decadent, sweet, and intensely chocolaty. Between the melted butter, Nutella, melted chocolate chips, and the sugar-honey syrup, it’s one saucy, sticky, and extremely satisfying dessert. This is not traditional baklava and I’m sure a Greek grandmother somewhere is cursing me. But I sure was happy. This is the first time I’ve ever made baklava and it was a bucket list item I can happily check off....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › No-Bake Balls, Cookie Dough & Truffles Raw Vegan Dark Chocolate Cherry Balls Wow I can’t believe the weekend has come, and is almost gone . As I had mentioned previously, my week flew by, and so did my weekend! And I don’t like it when my weekends fly by because I always want more time to relax with my family! Today I went to a hot power flow yoga class and it was steamy and lovely....