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Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Browned Butter Buttermilk Banana Bread with Strawberry Butter Buttermilk Banana Bread — 🍌🍞This homemade banana bread recipe is made with buttermilk and browned butter, which makes it super flavorful. Top it with a schmear of strawberry butter and dig in! Moist Buttermilk Banana Bread What’s in This Buttermilk Banana Bread? How to Make Buttermilk Banana Bread How to Make Strawberry Butter Do I Have to Brown the Butter?...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Chocolate Ganache Chocolate Cookies Frosted Triple Chocolate Cookies — A chocaholic’s DREAM! Soft chocolate cookies with chocolate chips, cocoa, and topped with fudgy chocolate ganache!! Rich, decadent, and heavenly!! Frosted Soft Chocolate Cookies There are chocolate chips and cocoa powder in the cookie dough and they’re topped with a rich, creamy, fudgy chocolate ganache. It’s what a chocaholic’s dreams are made of. The triple chocolate cookies are slightly chewy around the edges with super soft with tender, pillowy centers....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Earthquake Strikes! Coping with Natural Disaters, Friends and The Pool, Grocery Finds Hi Friends! It’s only fitting that a mere 5 days after being back in San Diego , an Earthquake Struck !!! “Swarm of earthquakes strikes southern San Diego County Robert J. Lopez Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 14, 2010 | 10:15 p.m. Nearly two dozens earthquakes, including a magnitude 5.7 temblor, struck Monday night near the U....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Easy 20-Minute Lighter Fettucine Alfredo Fettucine alfredo is a dish my family loves but I rarely make it because it can be a caloric lead balloon. Until now. It’s easy, ready in 20 minutes, your family will love it, and no one will miss the empty calories. Rather than multiple sticks of butter, eggs, and heavy cream, there’s only one stick of butter and I used Silk Unsweetened Cashewmilk ....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Espresso Chocolate Chip Blondies with Brown Sugar Frosting Espresso Chocolate Chip Blondies with Brown Sugar Frosting – EASY, chewy, super SOFT blondies infused with espresso and chocolate!! ENJOY your espresso in dessert form from now on! The brown sugar frosting is simply AMAZING!! I have 40+ different blondies recipes on my site but none that have been infused with espresso. It was only a matter of time my friends....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Food & Coffee Finds, Almond Butter Treats, Goals Hi Bloggie Friends! I hope your day has been mellow and chill. Mine, not so much. It’s been anything but mellow and chill because I did the Grocery Store Shuffle this morning, then Target, cleaned my house, did tons of laundry, fielded 987887 emails, it’s been a blur! Not a bad thing, just a bit crazy because shopping and schlepping to multiple stores with a toddler adds that extra dimension to things....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes High Raw Vegan Chocolate Macaroons How’s it hangin today bloggies? I am happppy because later tonight my other half comes home and relieves me of the solo parenting job I’ve been on since he’s been on the road on biz since Monday. I can’t believe I forgot to post the pics of the floral arrangement he brought home for me the morning he left....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Hitting the Road, Recent Posts, Speeding, Unpacking, A Quiz Hi Friends! Well, today is Move Day ! It’s been a whirlwind, obviously, when three people are putting every single article you own into a truck knowing we will not be coming back if we forgot anything. Our internet is about to be pulled down after I click Publish. And shortly, I am going to get in the car and drive across the desert with Skylar and Scott is driving the U-Haul with the other car trailered behind it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Homemade Cookie Butter Peanut Butter Fall in love with this 10-minute homemade Cookie Butter Peanut butter, it’s rich, wholesome taste will leave you with a smile! I love Peanut Butter I love Cookie Butter It was about time I combined the two. I won’t say that this spread tastes exactly like Cookie Butter or Biscoff Spread because they’re not made from peanuts, whereas this is....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes It Smells Good Do the words bottomless + mimosa sound like good things to you? They kind of do to me. Okay, they really sound like good things. But there were no bottomless mimosas in my life today. And no more flat tires . Whew. I did enjoy a Vanilla Iced Coffee instead. And I baked. Not these exact Peanut Butter Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies (Vegan, GF), but similar....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Lofthouse-Style Soft Peanut Butter Chip Sugar Cookies with Peanut Butter Frosting Frosted Lofthouse-Style Peanut Butter Chip Cookies — Similar to Lofthouse Soft-Frosted Sugar Cookies, but these are for peanut butter fans! I added peanut butter and frosted them with peanut butter buttercream. Frosted Peanut Butter Chip Cookies I’ve been wanting to make these peanut butter sugar cookies for years. I just couldn’t quite nail them until now....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes One-Hour Sun-dried Tomato, Basil, and Mozzarella Focaccia Bread When I told my family I was making focaccia bread, I heard crickets. No one was too terribly excited. Then I told them it’s going to taste almost like pizza. Suddenly everyone got excited. The bread is soft and chewy and loaded with tangy sun-dried tomatoes. Unbeknownst to me turn, sun-dried tomatoes turn almost black in the oven, at least these from Trader Joe’s did....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads › Quickbreads Pumpkin Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting Pumpkin Banana Bread — This pumpkin banana bread is topped with a homemade browned butter frosting. It’s super moist thanks to the mashed bananas, pumpkin, yogurt, and melted butter in the batter! Easy Pumpkin and Banana Bread Recipe Well, here you go. My first pumpkin recipe of the season and I’ve got many more where this came from....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Brownies Chocolate Pumpkin Brownies — Rich, fudgy brownies made with pumpkin and chocolate chips!! An EASY, no mixer pumpkin brownie recipe that’s FASTER than using a boxed mix! Bring on pumpkin spice season!! Fudgy Brownie Recipe … with Canned Pumpkin! I have lots of brownie recipes, but there’s always room for one more. Especially when the brownies are topped with pumpkin and chocolate chips....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Ice Cream & Frozen Treats Purple Roasted Potatoes & Banana Boubon Vanilla Softserve What’s shaking friends? Anything exciting happening on Tuesday for you? I’ve been a busy girl running errands, whipping up a few things in the kitch, and trying to find myself a yoga teaching gig in Phoenix. I think I just may have found something , but we shall see. I’ll keep you posted!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Raspberry Bars with Oatmeal Crumble Topping Raspberry Oatmeal Bars with Crumble Topping — These easy raspberry bars are made with a delicious oatmeal crumble topping. They require less than 10 minutes of hands-on prep and everyone loves these! Raspberry Bars with Oatmeal Topping I love raspberries in all ways. From crisps and crumbles to bread to scones to drinks, I’m a fan....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Seasonings Meanings:The Winter Solstice, Religion *Ok so working on an old laptop , and a trigger happy pinky finger , this post just got published about 12 hours before I actually wanted it to…nothing like a little surprise publishing on a Monday morning , but hey, it’s all good. Enjoy the “early” post. Anyone else ever done this? I know Deb has, anyone else?...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Beans & Lentils Spicy Baked Black Beans with Vegetables It’s not as fun for me to talk about beans as it for me to talk about other things. Like… desserts! However, man cannot live on desserts alone. But woman can! All joking aside, every now and then we take a break from chocolate and eat something else. I know, shocking, but true. Everything in moderation ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Vegan Thanksgiving Desserts & Grocery Finds How did Monday shape up for you? Hopefully everyone has a short holiday week this week and is gearing up to spend time with your family and friends and just get some R&R in! I got a great surprise today. A woman called me and offered me a job at her gym to teach a few yoga classes....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes What I’ve Learned as a Blogger, What Have You Learned, Weekend Pictures Hi Friends! How has your weekend been? I am so glad to be done working for a couple days. Ahhh, my “weekend” is finally here starting today! Later this afternoon we’re going out to sit outside on a patio somewhere and enjoy the hot weather and sunshine. And I do mean hot....