Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Coconut White Chocolate Chip Blondies I love a good blondie as much as the next blondie, especially when there’s coconut involved. May as well keep the coconut recipes coming while in the Caribbean . And I always like white chocolate, but I had mentioned that when I’m in Aruba, there’s something about it that I’m especially drawn to, even more so than usual....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Drinking Water Well all know that it’s important to stay hydrated, so I was excited when I got these 3 flavored waters to try from Cascade Ice No calories, and the flavors were nice. Not overpowering and not “fake” or chemically tasting like some zero calorie drinks can be. My favorite was the orange mango. I love mango anything! I drink plenty of water and 99% of the time it’s just regular tap water....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Easy Chicken Paella Easy Chicken Paella — If you’re never made paella before, here’s how with this EASY recipe ready in 45 minutes!! Juicy chicken and tender rice with onions, peppers, tomatoes, and more! So much FLAVOR in every bite!! Super Simple Chicken Paella Recipe What’s in the Easy Chicken Paella? How to Make Chicken Paella What’s the Best Rice for Paella? What Paella Spices Should I Use?...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Ginger Coconut Roasted Vegetables & Fennel Salad, Cheezy Chocolate Popcorn Well, it’s Hump Day Bloggies, we’re half way there! Has your week been going by fast? Mine has been about average, which means doing a million things at once! I went on a major grocery run, came home and unpacked everything, cleaned produce, roasted veggies, made some raw vegan dessert, took care of Skylar, tried to work on potty-learning and in the process created some extra laundry for myself!...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Asian Green Thai Chicken Coconut Curry Green Thai Curry with Chicken — 💚🧡🙌🏻 An EASY, one-skillet green curry that’s ready in 20 minutes and tastes BETTER than from a Thai restaurant!! It’s healthy comfort food that tastes AMAZING! Easy Thai Green Curry Recipe Ingredients for Green Thai Curry How to Make Green Thai Curry Love Thai Food? Curry FAQs What to Serve with Green Thai Curry Recipe Video Tutorial Green Thai Chicken Coconut Curry Recipe More Easy Thai Curry Recipes: Easy Thai Green Curry Recipe This green chicken curry is ready faster than you can call for takeout and tastes just as good – or better!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Halloween 2011 Pictures I hope you had a Happy Halloween. We did! And it was busy. In the afternoon, I went to Skylar’s school for their Halloween party and mingled with the other parents and kids. It was so much fun seeing all the kiddos decked out in their costumes. And then it was off to the local Mall for Trick or Treating which is what we did last year ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Happy Thanksgiving! Hi Friends! I hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving if you’re celebrating. And if you’re not, I hope your day is equally as wonderful. Skylar was at a friend’s house yesterday and made this If you missed my post yesterday, I recapped lots of what I talked about this past week: from My Living With Gratitude and Keeping Life in Perspective Post...

Home › Recipe Index › Beverages Manhattan Cocktail Manhattan Cocktail — This classic bourbon cocktail is made with vermouth, Angostura bitters, and orange peel for a sophisticated and easy drink everyone should know how to make! Classic Manhattan Cocktail Recipe When I think of a Manhattan, I’m not going to lie, I think of something that my dad would drink. Something classic, refined, potent, not sweet, and probably not what you’d see anyone on a college spring break trip ordering....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Nutella-Swirled Peanut Butter Chip Blondies These blondies are a jam-packed with things that make me very happy. A super soft, buttery, brown sugar base, loaded with peanut butter chips , and swirled with Nutella . I used my go-to blondie recipe that never lets me down . The batter comes together in one bowl , in 5 minutes , without using a mixer ....

Home › Recipe Index › Appetizers One-Hour Buttery Breadsticks Super Quick Homemade Breadsticks — There’s only one hour that separates you from warm, fresh, homemade breadsticks. 10 minutes to make dough and roll out, 30 minutes to rise, 20 minutes to bake! Easiest Breadsticks Recipe You have no excuses not to make these soft, buttery, warm, foolproof breadsticks. Ready in an hour. Everyone has an hour. It’ll be the best use of one hour all week, I promise....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Soft and Puffy Peanut Butter Coconut Oil Cookies Soft and Puffy Peanut Butter Coconut Oil Cookies – They’re made with coconut oil, which smells stronger than it tastes, and although you can ‘taste it’, it’s much milder and more subtle than coconut flakes. The peanut butter flavor really shines through. I could not get the last cookies I made with coconut oil out of my mind....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Time With Friends, Oatmeal Cookies, Cakes, & Bars I had a great day today. I got together with my Friend Jenny ! It had been far too long since she and I saw each other and I was able to squeeze in some time with her and her kids today. Skylar loves playing with Jenny’s daughter who is about 15 months younger than she is....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert White Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake White Texas Sheet Cake — A fast, EASY, no-mixer cake that’s soft, fluffy, tender, and just melts in your mouth!! The white chocolate twist on a traditional Texas chocolate sheet cake is DELISH! A perfect PARTY cake!! Easy White Texas Sheet Cake Recipe Everyone thinks of chocolate cake when it comes to a Texas sheet cake, but I decided to make a white version that’s studded with white chocolate chips....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken 15-Minute Sheet Pan Chicken Fried Rice 15-Minute Sheet Pan Fried Rice (with Chicken) — 🥡🍚🍗 Easy HEALTHIER “fried rice” that’s actually baked and not fried! Full of authentic flavor and ready faster than you can call for takeout! Perfect for busy weeknights and a family FAVORITE! Healthy Chicken Fried Rice … in the Oven! Sheet Pan Fried Rice Ingredients How to Make Sheet Pan Fried Rice Tips for the Best Baked Fried Rice Sheet Pan Fried Rice FAQs What to Serve with Sheet Pan Fried Rice More Easy Fried Rice Recipes: Healthy Chicken Fried Rice … in the Oven!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Chocolate Coconut Chia and Oat Bars [print_this] Chocolate Coconut Chia and Oat Bars (no-bake, vegan, GF) Into the Vita-Mix went: *2 Tbsp chia seeds that I ground well first *Then I added 4 Tbsp of shredded coconut (mine was sweetened because that’s all I had) *1 Tbsp Maple Syrup *1 Tbsp Agave *Dash Vanilla *2 Squares of the TJ’s Dark Chocolate 73% bar(Or, 2 Tbsp Choco Chips/Carob Chips/Cocao Nibs would all work) *2 Tbsp Oats (afterthought because they were really soupy so I needed something to dry them up) *Blended til everything’s incorporated...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Easy No-Bake Tiramisu No-Bake Easy Tiramisu — FAST, no-bake, and infused with the richness of espresso, Kahlua, a luscious creamy filling, and dusted with cocoa powder!! Decadent and authentic but SO EASY!! Easy Tiramisu Recipe After 9 years writing my blog that contains thousands of recipes as well as writing 2 cookbooks, there are very few ‘common’ recipes I don’t have on my site or in a book....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes G-Rated Cauliflower & X-Rated Dessert Since I have a chia seed giveaway going on , I am glad that my last post on chia seeds hit the spot and you’re getting excited about seeds. Such fun little buggers! And don’t forget about the NuNatural’s rockin’ Stevia GiveAway either, ok lovies? Nuff about all the loot, I’m peddling, let’s talk about my latest eats…a really awesome cauliflower salad with orange vinaigrette that I made courtesy of Gena’s recipe ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Just Beachy, Just Peachy Have you had a good Monday? It’s been just beachy here . After the sun was starting to set… …we came inside and things got peachy . I wish they were peachy along the lines of the Caramel Peanut Butter and (Peach) Jelly Bars but those are but a long-gone San Diego memory that I pre-baked before the Secret Recipe Club reveal this morning....

Home › Recipe Index › Soups Lasagna Soup One-Pot Lasagna Soup with Ground Beef — 🍅🧀🍝 Ready in 30 minutes and made in one pot, this EASY lasagna soup is the perfect, hearty, comfort food recipe! Big chunks of ground beef, tender noodles, a tomato-based broth, and topped with a three-cheese mixture of ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan! If you like lasagna, you’re going to LOVE this soup version of the Italian classic!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Lucky Charms Cookies Lucky Charms Cookies — Soft and ULTRA CHEWY sugar cookies made with Lucky Charms cereal in the dough plus plenty of marshmallows! Every Leprechaun you know is going to love this fun Saint Patrick’s Day dessert! Directions provided to make either plain OR extra festive green-marbled cookies. Lucky Charms Cookies Recipe I am a sucker for ultra chewy cookies and if you are like me, you’re going to adore how soft and extra chewy these Lucky Charms cookies are with lightly crisped edges!...