Delicious carrot cake cupcakes, filled and topped with sweet bourbon cream cheese frosting! Made with a sample of Rodelle vanilla extract and a huge dose of love. I have been on a baking kick lately, if you haven’t noticed. Between mini banana bread loaves and quite a few cupcakes (here and here), my oven has been …
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An easy and refreshing Greek orzo salad. Perfect for Kalamata olive lovers! March is one of my favorite months. The beginning of the month is usually cold and dreary here but all of a sudden, we start getting days that are consistently above 40. Mr. B and I were joking the other day that I …
Start you day with a stack of blueberry orange pancakes. It’s a flavor explosion – orange zest and fresh blueberries for the win. There are a trillion food holidays (not exaggerating, I swear,) but my new favorite one just happens to be on January 28th, which is today. I’m talking about National Blueberry Pancake Day …
Blueberry lemon bars – my version of the classic lemon bar recipe, using my homemade blueberry lemon curd. On New Year’s Day I shared one of my newest recipes for blueberry lemon curd. It is delicious and I had a hard time resisting the call of the curd. It is yummy enough that I seriously …
A delicious and easy recipe for slow cooker black bean turkey sausage stew. It requires very little prep but packs a lot of flavor into every bite! I’ve been working really hard to update my photos and recipes to make them easier to make, understand and look at. New pictures will do that to you – …
Leftover herbs after Thanksgiving? Make this easy leftover herb breakfast scrambler! Perfect way to cleanse after a hearty holiday dinner! I have been on a cooking kick the last couple days. Blame it on Thanksgiving or that I blog about food. Either way, Mr. B has been doing a lot of eating. So have his …
Maple bourbon cranberry sauce is the perfect addition to Thanksgiving dinner. Equally sweet and tart, it will make you never want to buy canned sauce again! I…. am still on a Thanksgiving kick. Last week I shared my fabulous recipe for gorgonzola green bean casserole. It has been a hit on Foodgawker and Tastespotting – …
Gorgonzola green bean casserole is a perfect Thanksgiving side dish – add pecans and panko bread crumbs for extra crunch! Sometimes when I’m planning what I’m going to cook for the week, I get stuck on one ingredient. It could be because I have a taste for something. This week, all I can think about …
This mushroom casserole is the perfect side dish for holiday dinners! It’s hearty enough to serve as a main course for vegetarians too! Today I am sharing with you the last recipe in my unintentional mushroom series. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about – I sent my hubby shopping and he came …
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This recipe is a great way to use the bounty of your herb garden. Lunch, dinner, or meatless Mondays – this summer pesto pasta is packed with flavor and color. I have been trying all summer to grow an herb garden. I was somewhat successful once a few years ago – I put all my …
This easy slow cooker pot roast recipe is sure to make it on your Sunday supper rotation. Do you have a small family? Then bust out that slow cooker and make this pot roast! We are slow cooker people. We have two of the big ones (good for soups, pot roasts, meals in general), and …
When life gives you a boatload of habanero peppers and strawberries, make some jam. Strawberry habanero jam to be exact – spicy and sweet! When life gives you a boatload of habanero peppers, it’s kind of similar to when it gives a bunch of lemons. Since you can’t make habanero-ade, you might as well make …
These chocolate coffee cupcakes with a whiskey buttercream frosting and candied bacon are perfect for Father’s day! Hello cupcake, bacon and dad lovers! Father’s Day is fast approaching and it’s time to treat our dads to some baked goodies. I love making baked goods for every holiday and I feel like sometimes dads get the …
My secret recipe for loaded baked potato soup – full of cheese, green onions and cheesy goodness! A few months ago I shared 8 great potato soup recipes from other bloggers, and this whole time I have been hoarding my own recipe for baked potato soup. I planned on including it in my future cookbook, …
This hearty beef mushroom barley soup will really warm you up on these last days of winter. I didn’t start off planning on making this soup but I found an awesome package of mushrooms at the grocery store. All my cooking plans for the day changed the minute I found this: Shiitake, oyster, pleurote and …
Honey butter is easy to make at home and is great on toast, English muffins and scones. When used on pancakes, its sweet enough that you can often go without syrup.
Life really has a way of getting in the way of things. I’ve been sitting on this slow cooker recipe for two weeks now. Switching over from wordpress.com to wordpress.org was a lot of work, and a lot more complicated than I thought it would be. I’ll leave out the details and maybe in the …
I love black beans. I may have a problem, an obsession you could even say. I used to think it was all beans because I buy a lot of kidney beans, small white beans and cannellini beans (Goya canned beans=yum), but I always end up cooking with the black beans. I have already posted two …