Here I go again with the peanut butter and chocolate. Recently, a friend pinned this recipe with a subtle suggestion that I should make these cupcakes, and I was pretty easily convinced. They just looked so good, and you know how I am with peanut butter and chocolate. The only thing was I wanted there […]
Month: March 2012
Baked Oatmeal with Strawberries, Bananas, and Chocolate
I saw this recipe on Pinterest a while back, and it just looked so delicious. Sometimes I need to cook breakfast for a crowd, like when we have family in town, so I am always keeping an eye out for new breakfast recipes. You see a lot of breakfast casseroles that have eggs, meat, and […]
Garlic Cheddar Smashed Potatoes
Garlic. Cheddar. Smashed Potatoes. Everything about that sounds delicious, right? I know, I love garlic and cheddar cheese too! Smashed potatoes are a really easy side dish that I’ve made over and over again, and honestly, I probably haven’t made them the same way twice. I threw together these easy redskin smashed potatoes with garlic […]
Spinach and Sun-dried Tomato Stuffed Chicken
We eat a lot of chicken at our house, so I’m always looking for a new way to cook it. Stuffing chicken breasts is a great way to do something different and it appears fancy, but it is really not that hard. Added bonus – you can mix up the ingredients with different things you […]
Cilantro Lime Rice with Black Beans
I love all Mexican food, but Chipotle is one of my guilty pleasures. It’s just so delicious. One time, I was making some enchiladas and decided to try to replicate their cilantro lime rice. I have to say, I think I did pretty darn good on the first try. The only thing I did differently […]
Fish Tacos with Roasted Corn and Avocado Salsa
The first time I heard about fish tacos was probably about five years ago, and my immediate thought was “gross!” Fish and tacos just did not sound like something that should be put together. Ever. But the more I got into cooking, and the more my palate’s horizons began to expand, the more okay I […]
Crispy Baked Kale Chips
You know how sometimes you buy an ingredient for a recipe but then only end up using half of it and then the other half just sits around or goes bad? I’ve found that kale can be one of those things. Wastefulness is one of my pet peeves, whether it’s water, energy, food, whatever. Remember […]
Grilled Sweet Potatoes
It’s officially grilling season! Officially declared by me, that is. We only have a charcoal grill at our house, so if we are going to grill something, it takes a decent time commitment. That’s why if we’re going to go through the trouble to get the grill ready, I usually want to cook as much […]
Grilled Chicken with Plum Salsa
I officially have spring fever. When it starts to get nice outside, I immediately want to break out the grill, which we did last weekend. I don’t know about you, but I sometimes feel like I get in a grilling rut, doing the same things every time. We were having some family members over, and […]
Cooking Trivia: Yummy Brown Bits
Here’s a little piece of trivia for you. You know how some recipes say to deglaze the pan with wine to pick up the yummy brown bits at the bottom of the pan (like my Whole Wheat Penne with Turkey Sausage and Roasted Vegetables and my Butternut Squash Soup)? Know what those bits are called? Fond. […]