Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes TGIF TGIF! It’s a gorgeous day in San Diego with sunny skies and temps in the high 70s. Picture perfect weather and the kind that brings a smile to my face, especially on a Friday. I plan to spend lots of time this weekend outside because it’s supposed to be a spectacular one. Maybe I’ll hit up the farmers market . I hope the weather forecasters are right because I could use some sun, fun, and R & R time with the family....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Cheater’s Heater It’s been a rainy and dreary weekend in San Diego, all weekend. It figures that it was gorgeous all week; sunny and in the mid to high 70sF and then come Saturday and Sunday and just in time for the weekend, the weather turned colder, rainy, and ugly. My kitchen was looking a little ugly, or shall I say messy , for awhile this weekend....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Chocolate Frosted Peanut Butter Cookies Frosted Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies — Easy, soft, and chewy cookies that are full of rich peanut butter flavor!! The frosting is light, fluffy, AMAZING, and my new favorite! You’ll want to eat it by the spoonful!! Frosted Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies I’ve been on a chocolate and peanut butter kick lately. That’s never a bad thing though. I rarely make frosted cookies because by the time I get done making the cookie dough and cleaning out my stand mixer, I don’t want to dirty it again to make frosting....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Chocolate Lava Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups — These cookie cups are made in one bowl, you don’t need a mixer, you don’t have to chill the dough, and because they’re baked in a muffin pan you don’t have to worry about spreading! The Best Cookie Cups These chocolate chip cookie cups have it all. The dough is made with browned butter, studded with mini chocolate chips, and the centers are stuffed with melted chocolate lava....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars — Nutter Butter crust, chocolate pudding, and peanut butter cream cheese filling! Easy, almost no-bake, and beyond AMAZING! Lives up to their dreamy name! Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Dessert Ingredients in Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars Recipe Video Tutorial How to Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars Recipe FAQs Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars Recipe More Chocolate Pudding Dessert Ideas: Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Dessert If you’re a chocolate and peanut butter dessert lover , you’ve found your end-all-be-all dessert....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Cornflake Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies If you’ve never thought to put cereal or marshmallows into cookies, you may wish to rethink that. I’ve made plenty of Rice Krispies Bars and Chocolate Candy Cereal Bars with with cereal and marshmallows, but have never put them into cookies. Why not? I have no idea. But there was no time like the present to start....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Cranberry Orange Bread with Sweet Orange Glaze Cranberry Orange Bread — The fresh cranberries in this cranberry orange bread contrast nicely with the sweet orange glaze, making it the perfect blend of sweet and tart! Orange-Glazed Cranberry Orange Bread Cranberry Orange Bread Ingredients How to Make Glazed Cranberry Orange Bread Recipe FAQs Tips for the Best Cranberry Orange Bread Recipe Variations to Try Cranberry Orange Bread with Sweet Orange Glaze Recipe More Cranberry Desserts: Orange-Glazed Cranberry Orange Bread The combination of cranberries and oranges is just wonderful and reminds me that the holidays are just around the corner....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Grocery Run, A Big Crack, Meetup Pics, Getting Lucky How has your Monday been? Mine has been crazy! Seriously, I have not stopped. 3 Mile morning run , followed by a trip through the grocery store like a rabbit scouring and foraging for fresh greenery , and then off to yoga, which was awesome. There are times where going to yoga at a gym can be a total grab-bag experience , never knowing what you’re going to get ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Leaving for San Francisco & Food Buzz, Leaving Significant Others, Who Do You Want to Meet? Hi Friends! I hope you have had a great week. Mine has been crazy busy juggling work, family, life, and my Food Buzz trip . As soon as I hit publish, I am driving to the airport and getting on my flight! The beauty of things is that I live about 10 minutes from the San Diego airport and it’s a 45 minute Southwest flight up to San Fran....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Lightroom & Learning New Things For anyone who has a blog, or is semi-serious about photography, there comes a point in time where one outgrows the features of iPhoto or other (free) editing software. That’s where Adobe Lightroom 3 came into my world. Not that anyone cares, but I spent all free moments of my weekend (at least 6+ hours) and all spare moments on Monday and Tuesday when I wasn’t working (another 6+ hours) just trying to figure it out....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Ice Cream & Frozen Treats Mango Banana Vanilla Softserve Here’s what I’ve been eating the past few days: Green Food & Dressing Recipes Vegan Slaw Horseradish Relish Dressing Protein-Spiked Recipes : No-Bake Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Coconut Oil Protein Bars with Sun Warrior And for those of you who aren’t big on Coconut Oil or don’t have it, you can make these bars without coconut oil: No-Bake Vegan Peanut Butter Protein Bars...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Merry Christmas: Holiday Card 2010 Merry Christmas, Everyone! We woke up and are playing with all of Santa’s presents that he dropped off. I will have pictures of everything up later today, but I wanted to show you our holiday card. I was addressing cards like crazy before I left San Diego and brought a few down here to Aruba to give to our neighbors and friends here....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › No-Bake Balls, Cookie Dough & Truffles No-Bake Oatmeal Raisin Carrot Cake Bites Growing up, I loved my grandma’s oatmeal raisin cookies and I also love carrot cake. It’s so moist and filled with raisins and carrots. What I really love about carrot cake though is cream cheese frosting. I won’t lie. Today’s recipe incorporates Oatmeal Raisin Cookies + Carrot Cake, sans frosting. You can always add frosting, but of course....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Dough Crumble Bars Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Dough Crumble Bars – These bars are soft, chewy, dense and buttery! And when topped with Peanut Butter cups, it makes for a delicious treat! It’s been awhile since I’ve made a gooey pan of bars. Or baked peanut butter cups into something. These make up for lost time. They’re the best bar I’ve made in recent memory, and I can’t keep my hands off them....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Peanut Butter Seven Layer Bars I’m a huge fan of seven layer bars . Also called hello dolly or magic bars depending on where you live. Whatever you call them, they’re fabulous and generally follow the same easy, no-mixer recipe outline. A buttery graham cracker crust, topped with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, nuts, coconut, and sweetened condensed milk. The melted butter and graham cracker crumbs each count as one layer in the classic recipe....

Home › Recipe Index › Beverages Salty Dog Cocktail Salty Dog Cocktail — A cousin to a greyhound, this bright, refreshing drink is made with vodka (or gin), grapefruit juice, and a sea-salted rim!! Easy to make a pitcher of it or make in advance if you’re entertaining!! What Is a Salty Dog Cocktail? If you’ve never heard of a salty dog drink, don’t worry. It’s actually a classic grapefruit and vodka cocktail , although it’s sometimes made with gin....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Beautiful Eyes I entered this photo in i Heart Faces Beautiful Eyes Photo Challenge Maybe I’ll have better luck with this photo and judging than I did here . Judging can be harsh! I’m entry #690 . The exact number is switching a bit due to other entrants dropping out or being disqualified. Not sure I hold out too much hope of winning anything but it’s fun to try and play along....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Hi Gang! How’s Your Day Going? Are you going out and drinking Tequila in honor of Cinco de Mayo tonight? Or maybe some chips and guacamole? I actually wish I was doing the former the later. But, that is not in the cards in this house these days so instead, I had a fun coffee date with Madeline . No adult-themed beverages were consumed despite it being Cinco de Mayo....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Blueberry Pie Smoothie I’ve never been a big pie person because I’m not into crust. I’m into filling. Most pie has too much crust and not enough filling so I don’t bother. Instead of blueberry pie, I made a healthy, vegan, gluten-free, no-sugar-added smoothie that tastes like blueberry pie filling. And it’s so good. I used 1 bag of frozen blueberries, 1 banana, blueberry juice, vanilla, a sugar-free sweetener and blended it....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Mexican Chunky Tomatillo Avocado Salsa Chunky Tomatillo Avocado Salsa — If you like salsa verde, you’re going to LOVE this homemade version that includes creamy chunks of avocado! As FAST and EASY and tossing a handful of healthy ingredients into your food processor and the salsa is ready in seconds. No roasting or charring necessary for AMAZING homemade salsa! Chunky Tomatillo Avocado Salsa Recipe Similar in flavor to store bought salsa verde but way better because homemade always is!...