Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pomegranate Seeds. Sweet from cinnamon and vanilla, and slightly tangy from the seeds, these cookies are addicting! There are certain food items I buy whenever I see them, even if they aren’t on my list and I have no plan for them. Pomegranate seeds are one of those items, because I …
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Asparagus Tart with Egg and Goat Cheese (on puff pastry) – a great vegetarian addition to your breakfast/brunch or appetizer spread! I have a tendency to buy vegetables in bulk. That can normally be a good thing, but not when you don’t have a plan for them. I always seem to forget that vegetables go …
Broccoli Cheddar Bites – perfect snack or finger food for a delicious serving of veggies. Both kids and adults will love them! Confession – these were originally going to be called “broccoli tots,” an imitation of “tater tots” that I’ve seen floating around the web. However, since they both look and taste nothing like tater …
Skinny Bang Bang Cauliflower – a lightened up version of bang bang sauce, paired with oven baked cauliflower florets. Spicy, delicious, and healthy! I keep wanting to type “skinny” twice here – Skinny Skinny Bang Bang Cauliflower – and I finally realized it’s because I was thinking of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” Skinny Skinny Bang …
Coconut Macaroon Nests – fill with your favorite candy, or use jelly beans or Easter eggs for a fun holiday treat. Easter is right around the corner so when I saw these coconut nests, I couldn’t resist trying them. Really though, it was just an excuse to buy jelly beans. I intended to buy chocolate eggs …
Nana’s Potica recipe – a Slovenian nut roll traditionally served at Easter and Christmas. Make this dessert to give as gifts or for holiday dinner parties. Grandma makes the best potica!
Skinnier zucchini bread – made with applesauce and less sugar so you can indulge in that second or third slice. A deliciously easy quick bread! Don’t we always need more ways to use up zucchini? Or is it just me? This applesauce zucchini bread is a great way to bake with it! Even though zucchini …
Spinach phyllo roll ups – use your phyllo dough for this simple appetizer (or party finger food). Eat your vegetables while having the option to customize to your favorite flavor combo! Sometimes while grocery shopping (especially at Trader Joe’s) I buy things on a whim. Like all the time. I may not have a recipe …
Easter Paska Bread – My Nana’s recipe for this Eastern European egg bread. I look forward to making this all year! Before I get to the (amazing) Easter bread recipe, let me start by bragging. My family gets me really cool gifts. It must be because I’m a food blogger. I have all sorts of …
Cauliflower pizza crust – for those days when you really want pizza but not all the carbs, or need a gluten free alternative. Okay, I did it. I jumped on the bandwagon. That pizza picture? That pizza crust is made out of cauliflower. Say what? You’re probably in one of three categories: 1) You tried …
My grandma’s vegetarian baked ziti will quickly become a family favorite. Requires only 5 ingredients! Easy casserole style dinner that you can prep ahead or even freeze for later. Hands down the best baked ziti recipe – because Grandma knows best. One of the easiest things to make for a meatless meal is pasta – …
Sugared cranberry cookies – sugar cookies with sugared cranberries baked in to make the sweetest cookie ever – with a twist.
Make your own COOKED eggnog! Enjoy your eggnog without worrying about uncooked eggs! SO I have this thing about eggnog. The thing is, I don’t really like it. Great way to start a post about eggnog, right? I have friends that will drink it by the gallon, but the thought of drinking a raw egg mixture …
Delicious homemade burger buns mixed, raised and ready in under an hour! Great if you’re having a cookout or summer party. Burger buns have been on my list to make for a while. I am completely in love with bread, but I don’t actually buy it that often since I know it’s pretty easy to …
A delicious, easy recipe for lemon blueberry cookies. Fresh blueberries and a light lemon flavor in a cookie that kind of tastes like a muffin top! A perfect dessert recipe for summer. It appears I may have a bit of a blueberry obsession. First there was blueberry banana bread. I washed that down with some blueberry …
Sweet Hawaiian bread – copycat version of King’s Hawaiian rolls! Pineapple juice adds the sweetness to this fluffy yeast bread. Growing up, I loved when my mom would buy Hawaiian bread from the store. Not sure if it was because they cost a little more than regular bread, or because I ate them so fast (probably …
Skinny chocolate brownies made with applesauce and Greek yogurt and are almost cupcake-like in texture. These healthy (or at least healthier) brownies make for a great guilt-free dessert. Skinny and chocolate don’t normally go in the same sentence, do they? But anything that helps convince me I can eat chocolate without having to run for 500 hours …
Cherry peach crumb bars – perfectly balanced with just the right amount of fruit and just the right amount of crust! Summertime fruit dessert that will surely be a crowd pleaser. Have you noticed I’ve been making a lot of double-fruit creations lately? There was the berry berry cinnamon swirl bread, blueberry banana bread, and …
Strawberry rhubarb muffins with a dash of cinnamon, using greek yogurt instead of milk and applesauce instead of oil. This is a great way to bake with rhubarb and eat up some of your strawberries too! Confession time: I had never eaten rhubarb before these muffins. Maybe I should say I never knowingly ate rhubarb, as I don’t …
Blueberry banana bread – double the fruit and double the deliciousness! All the sweet slices will be gone before you know it.