I love lemon baked goods at any time of year, though my biggest struggle is making baked goods “healthy” (although those guilt-free “fudge” brownies I made are probably the best example to date). I love sweets, but as I’m getting older, they’ve started sticking to me a bit and more and more of my friends
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This recipe is from my east coast friend, Skyler, who introduced me to this savory concoction a few years back on a batch of popcorn. It’s a great way to add a spicy twist to popcorn, corn on the cob, or even your favorite light protein source (tofu, chicken, or white fish)! It adds an
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This is a recipe I’ve actually been sitting on for some time now. I first made it probably three years ago, then I put my recipe away, thought about it a few times over the years, and didn’t actually bother making it again until now. Oh. My. God. Why did I wait?? Not only are
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One of my friend-Skylers (the local one) mentioned the idea of banana pumpkin bread to me, and I had to say, I was intrigued. I enjoyed banana bread and I happened to have a surplus of pumpkin puree in the cupboard due to a sale at the local grocery store. 3 for 1. Great deal,
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The grocery store had a sale on pumpkin puree, so I took home three cans of the stuff and went to town. The banana pumpkin bread and pumpkin spice cookies I made recently were part of that attempt to use up the three cans of puree. There was also a failed attempt at making protein bites. Stay
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When I was a little girl, we used to have big family Christmases with lots of people, tons of food, and enough cookies to feed all of Santa’s elves. While there are a few baked goods we continued to make after the Christmas get-togethers stopped, but these weren’t one of them, for some reason. When
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This is a dinner I tried out while I was cooking for just myself, so if you’re making the recipe for more than one person, multiply the recipe accordingly. For the nutrition facts, the meat used was 8 oz of salmon, which contributed 288 Calories, for those who are counting and wish to substitute a
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This is another recipe we found in Nana’s stash of recipe cards. According to Poppa, it came from his sister, Dorothy, who used to make it for him all the time and later passed the recipe on to Nana. I added a couple of spices to it to make the dough a little more interesting,
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For this week’s post, we have a special sort of double feature. August 25th is National Banana Split Day. In honor of what might be one of the sweetest holidays ever, I’m here to bring you not one, but TWO delicious treats. One of them, of course, is food, but the icing on this cake
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As someone who grew up in an Italian household eating copious amounts of pasta and baking cookies every other day of the week, I never really had much of an interest in dieting. I was vegetarian for a while, but I was also an extremely competitive and active runner at the time, and I couldn’t
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