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04.06.2015
Blackberry Turkey Sub
This Blackberry Turkey Sub is one of my favorite things to order and my favorite restaurant! Simple but FULL of flavor! Did you have a good Easter weekend? Ours was . . . eventful. Old Man Winter decided to give us the finger one last time and left me with a terrible cold and Quinn…
04.01.2015
Overnight Spinach Artichoke Strata
This Overnight Spinach Artichoke Strata makes for a delicious breakfast casserole ready to throw in the morning! It’s come to my attention that Piper was most certainly a Ninja or a Green Beret in a past life. It was a couple of months ago and Nathan and I were snuggling with Piper in bed while…
03.30.2015
Eggplant Raviolini Soup
This Eggplant Raviolini Soup only has FIVE ingredients, comes together easily, and is so delicious! Another updated picture post! You guys, please promise me you won’t go searching for the old photo, okay? I remember when I took the pictures and I thought, “OMG. These photos are amazing.” And I wasn’t actually crazy (#itotallywas), because…
03.17.2015
Samoa Fudge
When you can’t wait to get your Samoa Girl Scout cookies, just make this Samoa Fudge! It is easy to make and full of the best flavor combination of caramel, chocolate, and coconut! It its only five ingredients and it needs to be the next fudge recipe that you make! For some reason I’ve been…
03.16.2015
Sheep Cupcakes
Sheep Cupcakes! Cute and unbelievably delicious!! I originally made these sheep cupcakes back when Gavin was turning five for his Skylander party. Aren’t they almost too cute to eat? Well, since it’s almost Easter, and sheep are so cute and spring like, I thought the recipe and the photos could use a little updating. Well…
03.13.2015
Spicy Chipotle Hummus
This Spicy Chipotle Hummus is easy to throw together and makes a perfect appetizer or snack! This is a great spin on classic hummus. I don’t think that when I became a parent I realized all the horrible music I would be subjected to. And now, 7 and a half years later, I wake up…
03.11.2015
Salted Caramel Chocolate Mug Cake
This Salted Caramel Chocolate Mug Cake is your rich and delicious answer to a chocolate craving! When I started food blogging, I never realized how many times a week I would find myself at the grocery store. Even with being, what I have been told is, the luckiest woman alive and having my husband doing…
03.06.2015
Samoa Cake
This Samoa Cake is the perfect combination of chocolate, caramel, and coconut. Moist, delicious, and perfectly rich! So, you know how sometimes on Facebook you can see what your friends post on their other friends’ walls? Have you ever gotten sucked into the Facebook hole where you then click on the friend of the friend’s…
03.03.2015
Tagalong Cookie Dough Dip
This Tagalong Cookie Dough Dip is that amazing chocolate and peanut butter Girl Scout cookie, broken down into cookie dough dip form! Grab a spoon and join me, will you? We have a running joke in our house that Quinn is a better mom than I am. It’s been going on for a reeeeeeeally long…
02.24.2015
Green Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars
These Green Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting have have the amazing red velvet taste mixed with sugar cookie and could not be easier! I said to a mom friend the other day . . . I never realized before I became a mom how hard and gross it would be to take…
02.23.2015
Samoa Latte
This Samoa Latte is your favorite Girl Scout cookie in latte form! Ummm, you’re welcome. This past weekend Gavin and Nathan went on a Boy Scout campout, leaving me home with the two little girls. And I got a record amount of work done. Seriously. A big round up post for Nikki, and six recipes…
02.19.2015
Greek Stuffed Chicken
This Greek Stuffed Chicken is a fancy dinner that comes together easily! It is jam packed with flavor! Thank you Sargento for inspiring and sponsoring this amazing and delicious dinner! So. I can say with absolute certainty now that I am NOT cut out for a cooking competition show, ala Chopped. My assignment for this…