If I’m good for one thing, it’s finding a way to justify sinful foods. Ice cream? Calcium. Oatmeal cookie? Fiber! And raisins. It’s practically breakfast. Cake? Duh. It’s cake. Enough said. I’m great at taking a healthy food concept and turning it upside down into a kick ass butt dessert....
The very first time I made these muffins, intending on only making a great blueberry muffin, I hit a bit of a bump in the road. I was measuring out the blueberries and got to the bottom of the bag (I always use frozen. I live in Michigan and the...
I’ve made a few different potato soups in the past, all of them good. But for some reason when I wandered across this recipe when browsing Pennies on a Platter I just couldn’t get it out of my mind. A few days after finding this recipe I made it for...
I firmly believe every busy mom needs to have a few dinnertime tricks up her sleeve. This, dear friends, is one of mine. It’s quick, it’s simple, and it’s pretty tasty. A great weeknight dinner that my kids devour. Sure, it’s not exactly Beef Wellington, but who says every night...
Packing a lunch for work every day gets really, really boring. I can only take so many turkey sandwiches before I absolutely lose my mind from the monotony. I really like salads, but I’m really finicky when it comes to dressings. My preference always goes towards the buttermilk-laden fatty...
Oh blueberries, how I love you. They’re fantastic in everything, aren’t they? Muffins, pancakes, chocolate (if you’ve never had chocolate covered blueberries you have not lived. Trust me.) Lucky for me, my mom’s family owns a spectacular blueberry farm with the most delicious (and ENORMOUS- for real, quarter sized...
The first of October I went on a vacation with my mom and both of my kids while Brian went hunting. Literally one hour after getting out of the car to start our vacation I dropped our trusty point & shoot camera in the sand in the play area of...
I do not know why this never occurred to me before. Need a way to get you kids to eat new foods or lots of veggies? Cover them in peanut butter! A few weeks ago I was speaking to a co-worker while she was eating some Thai peanut sauce...
I have a confession to make. I’ve been sitting on the recipe for these cookies for a year now. A YEAR! I didn’t mean to keep it a secret from you, I promise. But, the thing is, I created the recipe for my husband and now every time I make...
I have a confession to make. I’m sorry to have kept it from you for so long. Ok… here goes. I really don’t like frosting. There, I said it. I think most frosting is totally vile. The bakery frostings on those massive sheet cakes for office birthdays and graduations (that...