It’s that time of year again for warm hearty soups, which just so happens to be my favorite time of year! I adapted this recipe from The Pioneer Woman. What’s fun about this soup is you can really adjust it to your own tastes. Add more or less cheese, hot sauce or not, maybe a…
Vegan Pumpkin Mac ‘n “Cheese”
For all my Vegan friends out there, you will love this recipe. It’s a healthy take on mac ‘n cheese. You should be able to find all the ingredients at Whole Foods or other health foods store. The pumpkin gives this a great creamy texture and the nutritional yeast adds a wonderful “cheesiness”. Get together…
Chocolate Sheet Cake
This is the best chocolate sheet cake I’ve ever made. I got this recipe from The Pioneer Woman. If you haven’t been to her site, you should go, she has the most wonderful recipes and photography. Make this for the chocolate lover in your family right away! Put your flour in a bowl Add sugar…
Irresistible Lemon Cake
My Father-in-law is an absolute nut for anything lemon. Since I’ve made this cake, he will not stop asking me, “Where’s more lemon cake?” He practically ate the entire cake in one day. That should tell you how good it is. Even my husband who is an avid chocoholic can appreciate this cake. It is…
Chocolate Rice Pudding
If you like Chocolate or Rice Pudding or both, you must try this today! It is one of my favorite dishes ever. It takes a little time and patience, but is well worth the effort. Add milk… …and sugar to saucepan Rice Scrape out vanilla bean and add in After rice mixture has cooked…
Frozen Mocha Pie
This recipe is so easy and delicious. In fact I’m eating a piece as I type this blog post, for purely inspirational purposes of course. I had a request from FoodGawker from the husband. It’s one of his favorite sites to look through food pictures, point at it and say, “make this for me please”….
Crostata with Mushroom and Sausage
This is one of my favorite recipes of all time. I use this all the time for company or that special treat when the weather starts to cool down. I’m hoping it will soon here…but it won’t be soon enough. So get this recipe out and ready for those perfect fall days to come ahead….
Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies
Chocolate…check…double chocolate…check…triple chocolate…check…espresso…check. Some of my favorite things 🙂 These cookies were easy to make and so delicious. I got my dark chocolate covered espresso beans at Fresh and Easy. I’ve also seen them at Trader Joe’s. They have a slight hard shelled crust and are soft, moist and gooey in the middle, just how…
Rigatoni with Squash
Since it’s summer and I’m Italian and like pasta still when it’s hot outside, I thought I’d give you guys a lighter pasta to make during these hot summer months. I made this without the Prawns and it still was amazing. You can usually find cubed up squash at the grocery store these days to…
I love everything from cake to kale. Life is all about balance. I like to live, laugh and love to the fullest! Our time is too short not to enjoy ourselves.
