Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Quickbreads Peach Mango Coconut Oil Banana Bread Banana Peach Bread — The softest, moistest banana bread that tastes like a tropical vacation! This banana peach bread is perfect for summer baking! Use fresh or frozen peaches! Peach and Banana Bread Recipe I have 40+ banana bread and banana recipes on my site, but there’s always room for one more. And this one is a total winner....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Pink Mini Muffins Pink Mini Muffins – Fast, EASY, no-mixer muffins that are accidentally VEGAN!! No butter, dairy, or eggs, and you won’t miss them! Pink mini muffins with sprinkles on top will make everyone SMILE this Valentine’s Day!! I’ve got the perfect Valentine’s Day treat for anyone who wants to spread some happiness, cheer, and make everyone smile. If pink mini muffins with sprinkles don’t make them smile, nothing will....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Quick and Easy Beer Bread I’ve partnered with Evite and Heineken to bring you this great beer bread recipe. This quick beer bread has only six ingredients and comes together easily, perfect if you need an easy party recipe or fast weeknight option. It makes the perfect accompaniment to chili, stew, or soup. And who can say no to homemade, fresh-baked bread? I sure can’t....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cheesecakes Samoa Cheesecake 🥥🍫❤️ Samoa Cheesecake is a smooth, creamy cheesecake with an Oreo crust and topped with chewy toasted coconut, caramel, and chocolate! If you’re a fan of Girl Scout Samoas Cookies, this homemade, rich, and decadent cheesecake with the same flavors is PURE PERFECTION! There are clear and easy directions, even if you’ve never made a cheesecake, so yours turns out amazing....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Santa, Christmas Morning, Vegan Stir Fry Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish you a blessed day, a happy day, a time to just be with your loved ones . I hope you can take time to reflect upon Chritmas’ past, and create new memories going forward as you cherish special times with your families and friends on Christmas Day today!...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Sheet Pan Skinny Lemon Pepper Chicken and Vegetables Baked Lemon Pepper Chicken and Vegetables — An EASY sheet pan chicken dinner that’s ready in 25 minutes!! Bonus that it’s SKINNY and has so much FLAVOR from the lemon pepper!! Easy Lemon Pepper Chicken Recipe I love sheet pan dinners because I’m all about easy, tasty, flavorful meals that are ready in 25 minutes like this one....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Using Up Odds & Ends, Microwave or Freezer Cooking & Baking Hi Friends! Well just a couple more days until Christmas! If you’re celebrating, I hope you’ve made your list and checked it twice and you’re in a mellow and calm frame of mind. The frame of mind that I am in is Use Up What I Have on Hand before our trip is over....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes What Caught My Eye This Week I read tons of blogs. Tons. I wish I could put down the blogs sometimes and pick up my books more, but there is something so captivating about seeing what culinary feats and feasts people come up with, and it’s instant gratification. Click, click, click. There is always something novel and great to drool over which is why I love reading blogs....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Writing Workshop It’s supposed to be a gorgeous weekend in San Diego. Sunny and 80F. I’m not sure if 80 is going to happen, but I wouldn’t complain if it does. Bring on spring. Or summer. I’m all about warm weather. I’m going to be spending Saturday indoors because I’m participating in a writing workshop that author and writing coach Dianne Jacob is putting on....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Angel Pineapple Lush Parfaits Angel Food Cake Pineapple Parfaits — An EASY, 4-ingredient, NO-BAKE dessert!! Perfect for summer because you don’t have to turn your oven on! Fluffy, light, airy, and wonderfully refreshing!! Easiest Pineapple Parfait Dessert My mom has been making this 4-ingredient, no-bake angel food cake dessert for about 30 years. It never gets old, it tastes like summer, it’s ridiculously easy, you don’t need a mixer, and you don’t have to turn your oven on....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Muffins Banana Yogurt Muffins Banana Yogurt Muffins — These muffins are so moist, tender and soft, thanks to the addition of Greek yogurt. The batter is make in one bowl, by hand, in mere minutes and the muffins go from idea to mixing bowl to oven to mouth all in under 30 minutes. Easy Banana Yogurt Muffins How many banana bread and banana recipes does one person need?...

Home › Recipe Index › Chips, Crackers, Snack Mixes & Nuts Big Clusters Maple Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Granola 🍁 This Big Clusters Maple Cinnamon Granola with Chocolate Chips is a cinch to make and perfect on top of yogurt or by the handful as a fiber-forward snack! How To Make Homemade Maple Cinnamon Granola How To Make Big Granola Clusters What Kind of Oil Should I Use for Homemade Granola?...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cakes & Cupcakes Cream Cheese-Swirled Cherry and Mixed Berries Cake Cream Cheese-Swirled Mixed Berry Cake — No mixer is needed for this easy mixed berry cake, which is as simple as making muffins! A mix of fresh or frozen fruit can be used, perfect for using up what’s seasonal or what you have on hand. Easy Berry Cake Recipe Baking berries into cake and getting big juicy surprise bites of fruit is so much fun....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Fish Easy 10-Minute Lemon-Butter Grouper Fish Tacos 10-Minute Grouper Fish Tacos — Fast, fresh, and healthy! An easy fish taco recipe everyone loves! Lemony, buttery fish with a honey mustard-lemon sauce on top! Perfect for busy nights because they’re so quick!! Easiest Fish Tacos with Grouper I made this recipe with no intention of blogging about it. Just a family dinner that was going to be eaten and likely forgotten about....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes January 2012 Recipes I decided that in 2012, on the last day of each month, I am going to do a compilation post, highlighting everything I made during that month. If you’re like me and see so many recipes on different blogs that you want to try, but then can’t remember where you saw something or even that you saw it until you see it again, consider the last day of the month as a memory refresher....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Made It Home We made it back to sunny San Diego about 1am Wednesday morning, which translated to 5am Aruba time for my brain and body. I stayed up until about 6am here unpacking, sorting the mail, doing laundry, and getting my life back into order. At least a little bit in order. Making for about a 28 hour day shy of the hour or so I slept on the plane....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Pinterest & Social Media Have you jumped on the Pinterest bandwagon yet? I have had my Pinterest account for nearly 6 months but had not done much with it until recently. For those of you who don’t know what it is, allow me to give my Cliff’s Notes version. First, it’s sort of like one big cyber wish list. I created these boards: Chocolate, Cookie Dough, Desserts...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Productive Day I had a productive day Tuesday. Here’s what I tackled and accomplished: Went to the post office to mail my taxes . They are done. And I got a small refund. Did laundry and changed the sheets on my bed. I hate changing sheets because I am a stickler for good, tight, hospital corners on my bed and it takes time to get them just right....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Smoky Chicken, Peppers, and Spinach Pasta Salad Bell peppers are one of my favorite vegetables. They’re crispy, crunchy, juicy, and are sweet-with-heat. It’s no wonder I also love smoked paprika which is made from smoked and ground red peppers. This fast and easy recipe that’s ready in 20 minutes has red peppers, orange peppers, and smoked paprika. If you’re a pepper lover like me, you’ve hit the pepper jackpot....

Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals 15-Minute Sheet Pan Lemon Pepper Chicken 15-Minute Sheet Pan Lemon Pepper Chicken — Fast, EASY, HEALTHY, and loaded with great lemon pepper flavor!! A DELISH one-pan meal with zero cleanup that’s perfect for busy weeknights!! Baked Lemon Pepper Chicken Recipe I love sheet pan dinners because I’m all about easy, tasty, flavorful meals that are ready in 15 minutes like this one. The chicken is tender and juicy and infused with lovely lemon flavor from both lemon slices that are nestled underneath and from the lemon pepper that’s sprinkled on top....