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Home › Recipe Index › Thanksgiving Recipes Roasted Butternut Squash Green Bean Casserole We all know the classic green bean casserole that’s usually served on Thanksgiving. I wanted to update the classic a bit so I gave this version a couple fun twists. I roasted butternut squash, incorporated it with the green beans, and sprinkled sliced almonds on top before baking. We loved the texture contrast of the soft green beans and tender squash with the crunchy almonds as we dug into this creamy casserole....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Soft and Chewy Mojito Cookies Lime, Mint & Rum Cookies (aka Mojito Cookies!) — Super SOFT and chewy cookies that taste like you’re drinking a mojito!! Who can say no to rum, mint, lime, and sugar? A unique cookie that’s so GOOD and they’re PERFECT for spring and summer parties of any kind!! Mojito Cookies with Mint, Lime, and Rum Extract In a word, these rum cookies taste like you’re drinking a mojito!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Softbatch Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies — 🍪🙌🏻🤎These soft batch cookies are made with a combination of butter and cream cheese, which makes them extra rich and delicious! I like to make mine using a combination of chocolate chips and chunks, and you can even use M&M’s in these! Soft Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Cream Cheese!) Ingredients for Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies How to Make Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies Cookie FAQs Recipe Video Tutorial Softbatch Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe More Cookies Made with Cream Cheese: Soft Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Cream Cheese!...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Texas Sheet Cake Brownies Texas Sheet Cake Brownies — These brownies are an EASY, one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that’s as fast as using a boxed mix! They turn out fudgy with ZERO cakiness. The frosting comes together in about 1 minute on the stove and you can add nuts if desired! Frosted Texas Sheet Cake Brownies Ingredients in Texas Sheet Cake Brownies How to Make Texas Sheet Cake Brownies Tip Texas Sheet Cake Brownies Recipe More Unique Brownie Recipes: Frosted Texas Sheet Cake Brownies Texas sheet cakes are something I rarely make because I never ‘need’ an enormous chocolate cake laying around....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads The Best Glazed Orange Sweet Rolls The BEST Glazed Orange Rolls — These homemade orange rolls are filled with a buttery orange filling and are topped with a simple orange glaze. They can be prepped the night before, if needed. Glazed Orange Sweet Rolls These orange rolls are so soft, moist, tender, wonderfully sweet, and just irresistibly good. They’re one of the best things that has ever come out of my kitchen....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Time for this week’s Thursday Things : Vanilla Bean Sampler – 3 beans each from 9 countries = 27 beans for $44.95 Madagascan Mexican Ugandan Indonesian Tongan Indian Bourbon (Papua New Guinea) Tahitian (Papua New Guinea) Tahitian (Tahiti) High quality beans for less than $2 bucks each? Score. I love vanilla in anything. From body spray to candles to…. …Cookies! Puffy Vanilla Peanut Butter Chip Cookies...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes What’s on Your Oats? Considering it’s Labor Day, I think I will try to keep this bloggie post brief so I’m not laboring too long at the ole ‘puter. There’s more fun stuff to do, you know, like labor unpacking boxes. Fun times no doubt. What’s everyone up to today? I’m glad that you enjoyed my shopping bonanza post and I promise to report back about all the creative eats I plan to make with my new gadgets!...

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Chicken 15-Minute Teriyaki Chicken and Mango Salad 15-Minute Teriyaki Chicken Salad — Fast, EASY, healthy, and sweet mango is the perfect complement to the savory teriyaki chicken!! Save this recipe for when you need a FRESH and TASTY spin on chicken salad!! Easy Teriyaki Chicken Salad Recipe I was at the grocery store and noticed that mangos were on sale, and that’s when the idea for a chicken salad with mango came to mind....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables 25 Cinco de Mayo and Easy Summertime Recipes Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo and rather than focusing only on Mexican-themed food, here are 25 recipes that are fun for outdoor parties and warmer weather . As well as drinks to keep you cool and a few easy-breezy treats to keep your sweet tooth happy. Everything featured is fast, easy, no-bake or nearly no-bake , since most of us would rather spend our time outdoors and with family and friends than in a hot kitchen....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Alphabet I have had a wickedly busy day: 40 minute Workout (20 minute outdoor run + yoga/core work at home) Target Marshall’s (got four more plates so now I have a set of 8 plates for $25 bucks!) Grocery Store Cooked a great dinner. To be blogged about tomorrow. And have just been going, going, going. And still have to go to my paid job....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Checked Off the Weekend List I did not want to get out of bed this morning. It’s been cloudy, raining, dreary, drizzling, or overcast for a few days and rainy weather, alarm clocks, and Mondays don’t go together. I went for a run and narrowly avoided getting downpoured on, which I consider a success. Over the weekend I did a little thrift store browsing for some dishes, photography props, and various things I just can’t live without....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Gingerbread Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Soft gingerbread and molasses cookies are some of my favorites, even preferred to chocolate chip . And I have a major thing for peanut butter . And cookie dough. This is all of that, in one. In a way, it’s a very amped-up version of Biscoff Spread or TJ’s Cookie Butter, although that’s not what I was trying to create....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes I Really Shouldn’t I really shouldn’t… Buy these dishes from Anthropologie But how cute are they? Spend time on the B & H Photo website or any photography or camera gear website I could drop thousands on photography stuff from lenses to camera bodies in no time flat. The Tsunami in Japan has effected the worldwide supply of many lenses and camera bodies with very indefinite ETA’s for them being re-stocked....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Look on the Bright Side It’s been a hectic week and it’s only Tuesday! But at least it’s Fat Tuesday and that means that somewhere, someone, is having a fabulous time. And maybe you’ll be going out and having a fabulous time later on, too. You always have to look on the bright side, right? Maybe these pictures will put a little bright side on your week....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Sides, Salads & Vegetables Mushrooms When I went to the farmer’s market , I saw a table with bowls and bowls of mushrooms. Something about these bowls of mushrooms just draws me in. Aren’t the baby portobellas cute? Both from a foodie standpoint and a picture-making standpoint, I loved coming across this table. It was fun to see all those glorious shrooms. I could eat mushrooms raw, whole, and plain....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Crisps Peach Raspberry Crisp Fresh Peach Raspberry Crisp — This peach oatmeal crisp is impossible to resist! The sweet peaches contrast beautifully with the tart raspberries, and that crumble topping is SO good! Easy Peach Crisp with Raspberries This dessert takes me back to my childhood summers, my dad’s exploding raspberry bushes, and my mom’s fruit crisps. I hadn’t had a good summer fruit crisp in ages and just had to make one....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Bars & Blondies Pink Lemonade Freezer Bars Don’t want to turn on your oven and bake? These salty-and sweet bars are your saving grace. The bars combine sweet with tart, smooth with crumbly, salty with sweet. And you can knock them out in 15 minutes flat. The best part of these freezer bars, in addition to being pink , is the use of one of my favorite ingredients, COOL WHIP Whipped Topping ....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Pies The Best French Silk Pie The BEST French Silk Pie — This French silk pie is made with an Oreo cookie crust. The filling is a cross between chocolate mousse and chocolate cheesecake, and it’s so addicting! Homemade French Silk Pie Recipe I’ve wanted to make a French Silk Pie for ages but kept putting it off. I’m glad I finally made it because it turned out to be one of the best pies I’ve ever eaten....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things Time for a few Thursday Things . A few eye-catching and noteworthy items this week include: This Latte Coffee Maker . Not that I need this. I have this which has been sitting in a box since our last move . But something about that perfect looking latte makes me want that latte maker. And reminds me that I should just unpack the one I have ....

Home › Recipe Index › Entrees › Tofu & Tempeh Tofu Tips When I posted my Peanut Sauce Baked Tofu recipe… Here are some of my Tofu-Making Suggestions and Tips: For anyone who doesn’t “like” tofu, it’s likely because of the preparation technique. Then again, Katie told me no matter what, she just doesn’t like it. Fair enough. In my opinion, raw/uncooked tofu is mushy, bland, and gross. How to change that?...