Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes April 2012 Recipes I can’t believe it’s April 30th. Where did this month go? It flew by for me in a blurry rush. In keeping with my goal of highlighting the noteworthy recipes I made each month, here are the April 2012 recipes: White and Dark Cream Cheese Chocolate Cake Bars National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day Recipes Buttery Toasted Captain Crunchies Coconut Water Champagne Fruit Punch (vegan, GF)...
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Baked Chipotle Sweet Potato and Zucchini Fritters Baked Chipotle Sweet Potato and Zucchini Fritters – Healthy, easy, BAKED fritters that help you get more veggies into your diet! These fritters came to fruition because I had one sweet potato, which I had intended to make soup with, but realized it wasn’t quite enough for soup. Then I noticed a few small zucchinis that were crying out from the depths of the produce drawer and begging to be used before they turned into limp and lifeless green logs....
Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Donuts Baked Eggnog Vanilla Donuts with Eggnog Rum Glaze Before we left San Diego for Aruba, I had some eggnog to use. It would have been a shame to toss out $1.17 worth of eggnog when I could embark on a recipe development, baking, and photography project just hours before a 22 hour travel day. Because I had nothing else going on. I’m happy I used up the rest of the ‘nog because these vanilla eggnog donuts were tasty and seasonal....
Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Chocolate Peppermint Kiss Cookies 🍫💋🍪 Chocolate Peppermint Kiss Cookies are studded with crushed candy cane pieces and flavored with peppermint extract for incredible chocolate-peppermint flavor! These cookies are soft and chewy on the inside and slightly crisp on the outside, thanks to the sugar coating. These are PERFECT peppermint Christmas cookies and everyone adores them at holiday parties and cookie exchanges! FAST and EASY too – no dough chilling required!...
Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Cranberry Bliss Seven Layer Bars Cranberry Magic Bars — A marriage of the famous Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars with Seven Layer Bars!! White chocolate, cranberries, coconut, and so good! Fast and super easy!! I love Cranberry Bliss Bars . Actually anything with white chocolate and cranberries I’m bound to like. And because I have a longstanding obsession with Seven Layer Bars — or Magic Bars, as they’re sometimes called — marrying two favorite bars into one had to happen....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Fudgy Peanut Butter Cup Brownies I’ve put peanut butter cups into so many recipes on my blog and in Peanut Butter Comfort . And these fudgy brownies go from really good to get-them-out-of-my-house after adding peanut butter cups. It’s a fast, one-bowl, no mixer recipe that’s as easy as using a mix. The brownies are ultra fudgy, not at all cakey, ridiculously rich, boldly chocolaty, and there’s a full-size peanut butter cup for each brownie....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Knock It Out & Pileups My life has been a whirlwind since returning home from Aruba . Almost 3 weeks gone and on vacation is lovely while you’re gone. But then you have to get back to real life and in my case I had to do it without missing a beat and had to hit the ground running. From the moment I stepped off the plane there was mail to sort...
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Last Minute Craziness My day Friday started insanely early. As in a 4am wakeup in order to leave the house by 5am for a 6:30am flight from San Diego to Phoenix, and then Phoenix to Mexico City . I thought I was really well-organized and that my evening Thursday was going to be fairly mellow. Well, as mellow as it can be living amidst boxes and being just days away from our official move into the new place ....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes New School I realized in Aruba after spending every single waking second with Skylar that she was ready for more stimulation and a more challenging environment than her current preschool was able to provide. It’s been a fabulous place for her, but all good things run their course and come to an end. Kids grow, they mature; they outgrow certain things and need new challenges....
Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Pizza One Hour Whole Wheat Pizza Dough 1-Hour Whole Wheat Pizza Dough — The dough is soft, chewy, thick and hearty, versatile, and EASY! Simply combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl, knead for about 8 minutes, wait an hour, and bake it off! Easy Recipe for Whole Wheat Pizza Dough This dough just opened up a whole new pizza-making world. It only takes one hour to make and rise....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Rainy Day Projects The weather here turned rainy, windy, cold, and nasty. It’s been rainy pretty hard for almost a day. Pretty soon I’ll need another new roof . I didn’t even want to go out in it so this is a shot from my 4th story balcony. I forgot about this fireplace on this balcony. I need to sit outside and use it once the rain clears up but before it gets too hot out to take advantage of it....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Raw Vegan Chocolate Mousse, Blogger Meetup, Marriage & My Anniversary, Monogamy Natural or Not? Hi Bloggie Friends! How’s Your Day Going? I’ve been going a million miles an hour today, but I’m doing wonderfully because I had a Blogger Meetup with Alyson of Nourished Fitness. Alyson’s in the process of moving and was not feeling super into gratuitous photos for the blog and believe me, I concur, but did it anyway....
Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Soft Pumpkin Praline Bars Soft Pumpkin Bars (with Cake Mix!) — SUPER soft pumpkin bars studded with chocolate chips, candied pecans, and plenty of pumpkin pie spice!! A FAST and EASY pumpkin dessert that feeds a crowd for your fall and winter celebrations!! Pumpkin Bars… Made with Spice Cake Mix! If you’re looking for super soft pumpkin pecan bars, these are the ones to make....
Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cakes & Cupcakes Soft Vegan Pumpkin Cake with Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting Soft Vegan Pumpkin Cake with Pumpkin Spice Frosting — This is a fast, easy pumpkin cake that you’d never guess is vegan! I topped it with a spiced buttercream frosting for even more pumpkin flavor! Ultra Moist Pumpkin Cake I’m not into complicated, fussy, layer cakes that dirty 10 bowls, only to create a cake that’s so huge it goes stale before it’s finished....
Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cakes & Cupcakes Spiced Apple and Banana Bundt Cake with Vanilla Caramel Glaze I made this cake because I wanted to bake something using some of the gorgeous fall apples that are coming into season. This post also coincides with National Apple Dumpling Day , which is September 17. I’m also participating in Apple Week with a dozen other bloggers this week. We’re all posting at least one new apple recipe this week on our blogs and this is my contribution for the week....
Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken Thai Coconut Chicken Stir Fry Thai Chicken Stir Fry — Chicken, sugar snap peas, bell peppers, and carrots simmered in a rich coconut milk broth that’s irresistible!! Layers of flavor, EASY, ready in 20 MINUTES, and HEALTHY!! Easiest Thai Chicken Stir-Fry Recipe What’s in the Thai Chicken Stir-Fry? How to Make Thai Chicken Stir-Fry Love Thai Stir-Fries? Can I Use Different Veggies? Tips for the Best Thai Stir-Fry Thai Coconut Chicken Stir Fry Recipe More Easy Thai Recipes: Easiest Thai Chicken Stir-Fry Recipe It’s been far too long since I’ve cooked with coconut milk , and this Thai veggie stir fry was a wonderful reminder I need to do it more frequently....
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things: Things Kids Say This week’s Thursday Things is brought to you in part by Skylar (age 5) and some of the gems that escaped from her mouth on a recent trip to the mall: I love Fashion Valley . Where else can you (window) shop at Pottery Barn, Tiffany, MAC and Mac, Williams-Sonoma, the Nike Store, Victoria’s Secret, F21, Anthropologie, Bath & Body Works, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton all within 100 yards of each other?...
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes TropicOats Good afternoon bloggies! Are you having a Happy Humpy day? I’ve been super productive: After a DMV visit I am now sportin’ an AZ driver’s license! With my new legal name, Averie Harmony! I have to go back there to deal with vehicle registration baloney but hey, I’ve got the license. That’s major. Thanks for everyone who wrote in to tell me they were digging the Raw Vegan Apple Crumble Recipe...
Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes A Slice of Raw Vegan Chocolate Pie And as I had left off yesterday, I promised you all some Chocolate Action , so without further ado… A few weeks ago I went to a friend’s house and rather than showing up empty handed, I decided to make a raw vegan chocolate pie. I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t bring her the whole pie. Whadda ya think I’m nuts?...
Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Donuts Baked Vanilla Donuts with Vanilla Glaze Baked Vanilla Glazed Donuts — Slightly dense and cake-like, these vanilla glazed donuts are baked rather than fried. Perfect for weekend brunches and special occasion breakfasts! Easy Baked Glazed Donut Recipe When I bought my donut pan, I didn’t know I was going to enjoy making homemade donuts as much as I have been. But boy, I’m glad I finally got around to picking up that donut pan....
