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Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Snacks, Clothes, & Hot Topic Friday: Crediting Recipes It’s Friday and I’m doing the happy dance! TGIF for sure! My weeks feel so full and hectic and I look forward to putting things in a lower gear over the weekends. I’m looking forward to an Easter Egg hunt that our community association is putting on for the kids in the development and there’s also going to be a petting zoo complete with an Easter Bunny hopping around....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes The Best Vegan Blueberry Muffins Vegan Blueberry Muffins — These are the BEST blueberry muffins I’ve ever had, vegan or otherwise. An avocado replaces the butter (and much of the oil) you’d typically add to muffin batter. These are fluffy, moist, and so easy to make! The BEST Vegan Blueberry Muffins These are the best blueberry muffins I’ve ever had. Period. They’re also probably the healthiest and happen to be vegan — I love it when things work out like that!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes 20 Healthier Thanksgiving Recipes If you still haven’t decided on what to make, or need some lighter or healthier sides to round out your meal, here are 20 of my favorites, many of which can be made in advance and re-heated on the Big Day. There’s not a single recipe for turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, or pumpkin pie. Instead I have chosen to showcase some versatile sides, some that can double as entrees, and some meat-free mains....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes 30 Minute Honey Whole Wheat Skillet Bread 30-Minute Honey Whole Wheat Skillet Bread — Skillet breads bake quicker than bread in loaf pans, so you get to enjoy this bread sooner rather than later. It’s soft, fluffy, chewy, and lightweight with a moist crumb that reminds me of the texture of a moist muffin. No-Knead Whole Wheat Skillet Bread Every once in awhile, I get lucky with a recipe....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Birthday Party, Grocery Finds, Vegan Sweet Treats, Gratitude Happy Hump Day! We’re halfway there and I am really looking forward to the weekend! I’ve got some cool yoga classes lined up, but we are also going to throw Skylar’s 3rd Birthday Party ! When I say party, I should really define that as an intimate celebration . Why? Because we’re new in town and don’t know too many people, so it will just be the three of us, and that’s totally fine by me....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Browned Butter Caramel and Butterscotch Bars Browned Butter Caramel and Butterscotch Bars are a perfect dense, comforting, and rich treat and easy-to-make. I was craving something rich, buttery, and comforting but didn’t know exactly what to make. When I saw a half-used bag of dark brown sugar in the cupboard, I knew I had use it. Dark brown sugar imparts a richer and more complex sweetness than light brown sugar, thanks to the greater amount of molasses in it....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Cherishing The Simple Things, Favorite Day of the Week Hi Friends! How’s your weekend going so far? What are you up to? We’re having a little Indian Summer heat wave here in San Diego. Low to mid 80s this weekend, sunny, hot; which is awesome by me! I am at total peace and bliss in that temperature range. Sounds crazy, but sometimes the dampness of the air here from the ocean, combined with the sea breeze, and well, sometimes 65F feels chilly to me!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Chocolate Lava Nutella Cookies I’ve always wanted to make a chocolate lava cake. I still haven’t made one, but cookies stuffed with chocolate that flows like lava is more than okay. If you’re craving chocolate, these are the cookies to make because there’s chocolate incorporated three ways: Nutella, chocolate chips, and dark chocolate chunks. They’re rich, bold, and supremely fudgy. The cookies are thick, slightly chewy on the outside with super soft and tender interiors....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Coconut Oil Chocolate Covered Strawberries, Commenting Glitches & the Full Moon, Brutal Honesty Hi Bloggies, how are you? Things for me are….well, let’s just say it’s a Full Moon . During a Full Moon, the world is filled with excess prana, or life force energy. And technological or mechanical glitches are notorious during Full Moons. Computer problems, car problems, appliances breaking. The ice and water maker on my 6 month old refrigerator started acting up today....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Easy Homemade FUNFETTI®-Inspired Bundt Cake Easy Homemade Funfetti Bundt Cake — NO cake mix in this 100% HOMEMADE funfetti cake and it tastes amazing!! Fast, EASY, and the BEST scratch funfetti cake recipe that’s loaded with sprinkles!! Easy Funfetti Cake … From Scratch! I almost called this “Easy Homemade Funfetti Birthday Cake” because it’s a perfect celebration cake. I made it as a belated birthday cake for myself and another friend because we both had June birthdays that we didn’t get around to celebrating together until much later....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Pizza Easy Mini Pepperoni Pizzas Easy Mini Pizzas — Ready in 10 minutes, mindlessly easy, and mini food just tastes better!! Great as an appetizer, after-school or late-night snack, or as perfect tailgating party food!! English Muffin Mini Pizzas Everyone loves pizza. Especially when you get your own mini pizza and don’t have to share. These mini pizzas are perfect for tailgating, as after-school snacks, or as mindlessly fast and easy party appetizers....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Fast & Easy Valentine’s Day Desserts-Part 1, Blogger Meetup, Pottery Pickup Hi Bloggie Friends! How are you doing today? I’m doing great because I just came from a blogger meetup with Maureen of MommyRD . We actually met at the same coffee place that Madeline and I meet at for our coffee dates. But the difference was that Maureen came with baby Ava ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Food Or Other Things, Big Ticket Items Housekeeping detail that I am so proud to announce: All Links have been restored and the pathways are correct! No more Page Not Found errors! Remember when I reorganized my pantry? Well the things I totally forgot I had gifts just keep coming. Like these Brad’s Raw Chips . These are tasty and if you like Cheeze-I’s or Doritos, you could maybe pretend you’re eating one of those with these....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Health, Beauty, Food, & Household Favorites, Friend Meetup, Pressure to Have Amazing Blog Content Daily Hi Friends! What’s shaking for you today? I ran errands today. Oh boy, did I ever: the regular grocery store, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods (only for Vegenaise), the bank, the post office, and I tanned. Oh, I know, it’s very exciting stuff but the feeling of productivity does rock....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Hershey’s Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Hershey’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe — An old-time recipe that’s a keeper!! Chocolaty, buttery, soft cookie PERFECTION!! If you need a recipe so your cookies stay ultra soft for days, this is the one!! Easy Hershey’s Cookies If you’re looking for big, bakery-style, buttery cookies loaded with chocolate and that stay soft for days, this is the perfect recipe....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Brownies Homemade Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies Homemade Cosmic Brownies — These homemade Cosmic Brownies are dark, dense, and rich. The edges are just a bit chewy, with a moist and ultra-fudgy interior. Homemade Cosmic Brownies Recipe Growing up, I loved Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies and Cosmic Brownies so much. Show me a box of either, and I could show you a pile of cellophane wrappers minutes later....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes In The News & The Influence of Blogs The skies are blue and the sun is shining in San Diego. The flowers are blooming. And I am powering through the day: I knocked out a 20 Minute At Home Workout I am grooving on the coffee and mango butter finds that I picked up at TJ’s yesterday I love TJ’s Coffees and did a big Coffee Review Post comparing many of their coffees as well as others, like Smores Coffee...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Mango and White Chocolate Chip Cookies I love mango and white chocolate and until now, I had not paired the two in a baked cookie. I have no idea what I was waiting for because the flavor combo worked so well in these golden little cookies. However, I could have eaten the whole bowl of raw dough without actually baking any cookies. It was ridiculously good....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Mini Ferrero Rocher Cheesecakes Mini Ferrero Rocher Cheesecakes — If you like Nutella, you’re going to LOVE these mini chocolate cheesecakes! With a buttery Oreo crust, a creamy decadent hazelnut filling, and topped with chocolate whipped cream, these EASY Oreo Ferrero Rocher mini cheesecakes are a must-try dessert! They’re indulgent and can be made ahead of time for holidays, dinner parties, or special occasions when you need a show-stopping dessert!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert One-Bowl, No-Mixer, Extra-Large Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie One-Bowl, No-Mixer, Extra-Large Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie — A FAST and EASY recipe for ONE XL soft and chewy very THICK cookie loaded with chocolate!! No mixer needed and so DELISH!! Giant Cookie Recipe I have dozens of recipes for oatmeal cookies and recently had a craving for them. Rather than making a whole batch of cookies that I would no doubt eat within a few days, I exercised some self-control and made one extra-large cookie....