Are you like me and LOVE grilled cheese? It’s such a classic meal that I loved in my childhood, and today I still crave it! I know it’s cliche, but tomato soup and grilled cheese is one of my favorite meals! Today we’re going to make one heck of a cauliflower grilled cheese sandwich by throwing cauliflower, jalapeno peppers and shredded cheddar cheese on it. It’s ooey gooey delicious!...
The color green. What do you think of? In many people’s minds, the color green isn’t something you usually think of when you think of sweet desserts. I hear that little kids fear their green vegetables so sneaky parents have to find ways to incorporate it into their meals. Well I don’t have a little kid, but I still like being sneaky, even if it means just being sneaky to myself....
Classic Christmas Shortbread Cookies Recipe This recipe makes classic shortbread cookies, perfect for decorating at Christmas. These cookies taste buttery and will melt in your mouth. Instead of stressing out worrying about decorating the most beautiful cookies, I’m providing my simple decorating tips – all you need is a tube of icing and sprinkles! I hope you all enjoy these Christmas Shortbread Cookies! You Need 4 Ingredients These are simple tasty cookies that don’t require many ingredients....
Frozen Banana Ice Cream During the Summer, I crave ice cream! Actually it doesn’t matter the season, I always crave ice cream! It can be Winter and I’m like “Let’s eat some ice cream!”. This Frozen Banana Ice Cream recipe is one of my favorites because it’s easy to make (takes a 1 minute) and only requires 3 ingredients. Once you make this you might never buy another pint of ice cream again!...
Easy Hawaiian Roll Sliders My family LOVES sandwiches, especially Italian-style ones. What’s not to love about honey turkey, ham, provolone cheese and roasted veggies on sweet Hawaiian rolls? Sliders may be small, but when you pile them up they fill you up quite nicely! These handy goodies are the perfect game day and party finger foods. What I love most about them (besides the taste) is that there is something about finger food that makes it automatically fun – especially for kids!...
Buying land was the result of wanting a garden that came with no rules. So it’s no surprise that the first thing to build on the land is a garden! It’s funny to think about where the garden started from. In 2009 it was 32 square feet and then it became a few hundred square feet, getting bigger by the year. Now it has a few acres to grow! The future garden is 56×40....
Fall is probably my favorite season and I’m so excited to share all of my favorite fall-inspired recipes with you! I know that I tend to go a little overboard with pumpkin recipes this time of year, but hear me out. This pumpkin hummus dip is worth it. I promise. It’s so delicious. Just get ready to experience a creamy, flavorful, perfectly spiced dip that goes well with so many things and can be whipped up in under 10 minutes....
What do you add in minestrone soup? Minestrone Soup is the champion of vegetables soups, and super versatile. It’s the perfect cleaning out your fridge soup. For my recipe the vegetables I use is green beans, carrots, celery, onion, garlic, kale and crushed tomatoes. But you can swap whatever you don’t have (or like) for something else pretty easily. At the bottom of this post I have some substitute suggestions if you have a specific question....
Healthy apple muffins Eating sugar free is not easy. Practically everything at the grocery store has added sugar in it, making shopping for a family close to impossible! When I tried avoiding sugar, I wanted to create a baked good that still tasted amazing, even without needing super expensive ingredients. Enter these healthy Sugar Free Apple Muffins! They’re a breeze to put together using simple, sugar free, and dairy free baking staples, along with diced apples and fresh blueberries....
Oh friends, have I got a treat for you. These Triple Chocolate Avocado Peanut Butter Brownie Bites are something real special. Remember when you were young and got that first kiss and you got all those butterflies in your stomach? Well that is the feeling I got when eating the first bite. Oh brownie bites, I have a big crush on you, I wrote my landline phone number on your hand, please call me and we can hang out at the arcade Friday night....
Ingredients in Birthday Cake Flavored Homemade Granola Bars This recipe is loosely based off of my Chocolate Chip Granola Bars. With this birthday cake version, I wanted to create a homemade granola bar that was satisfying and wholesome with oats, rice cereal and honey, but tasted more sweet like dessert. To be exact, I wanted it to taste just like birthday cake batter with the sprinkles and all! Pin this Recipe For Later!...
Easy Chinese Fried Rice Recipe We have a ton of lettuce right now in our garden. You might have seen a sneak peak of our lettuce earlier this week in the Garden Update, but if you saw my refrigerator today you might go running in fear! Lettuce is awesome, but when you have multiple giant lettuce heads staring at you with eyes that say “Eat me before I go bad” then you start to feel the stress!...
These Chocolate Oreo Peanut Butter Popsicles will bring all the boys to the yard. Ok, not just boys. Girls, children, cats, dogs, gnomes. Practically everyone. Once you make a batch of these, they will be gone right away and then your family will be requesting a new batch. So you’ll make another and they’ll be gone right now. And then you have to have a popsicle intervention because these are that good and addicting....
These are one of my all time favorite cookie recipes. These Chocolate Pretzel Cookies taste just like Sugar Cookies with a classic chocolate spin to them. You taste a moist cookie with each bite that just melts in your mouth. After eating a couple cookies, I make my husband take these from me or I will eat them all. I absolutely love them! How to Make Chocolate Pretzel Cookies These are pretty straightforward easy to make cookies, the only part that takes a couple extra minutes is shaping them into pretzels (I’ll show you how to do that below)....
Extra Strong Coffee Brownies Recipe Do you need a caffeine fix? Yeah, me too. You’re going to love these Extra Strong Coffee Brownies that will definitely give you a boost of energy. This recipe uses coffee concentrate made from simmered down coffee to make extra strong coffee. The result are fudgy chocolate brownies that will help you make it through when you need some caffeine! What does coffee do in brownies?...
It’s delicious. It’s moist. It’s chocolatey. It smells the best. I’m in love. Do you know how good it is? My banana hating husband (GASP) runs to the kitchen when I make it to steal the first piece. I hit his hands though. The first piece is always mine. Nutella Banana Bread Recipe The main ingredients are bananas, Nutella (or other chocolate hazelnut spread) and coconut flakes. That’s what creates all the magic in this bread....
Are you looking to start bike riding with your baby (or toddler!) in the city? Then you’ve come to the right place! Our daughter Enceladus started to ride around NYC at the age of 10 months with her Dad. She’s officially a pro and loves cruising the Brooklyn bike lanes. I’m not sure Enceladus was even born yet and Matthew was already dreaming of weekend bike rides with her to Prospect Park....
Pea Pasta Recipe There is a strong possibility that while you are reading this I am daydreaming about this pea pasta for dinner. During the Summer time when it’s peak garden season this is our go to dinner that we have a few times a week. Once we start harvesting sugar snap peas by the pound (right now there’s over 10 pounds worth in my fridge!) then we start to sing “It’s pasta time....
Easy slow cooker street tacos Whether it’s taco Tuesday or any day of the week, making tacos in your slow cooker is always a good idea! The ingredients are so easy to prep the night before and you can set it and forget it in your crockpot. After a few hours, you’ll be indulging in deliciously tender and seasoned beef loaded into tortillas with your favorite salsa. Beef sirloin, peppers, onions, and taco seasonings are combined in a crockpot along with some broth and cornstarch....
Sweet and spicy tomato sauce I’m a huge fan of making my own tomato sauce instead of buying it from a store. I don’t think people understand just how easy it is, not to mention affordable! It’s also the best excuse to use up an abundance of garden fresh tomatoes and to add flavor and depth to plenty of recipes. After I made my Oven Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce, it only felt natural for me to give the sauce some kick using fresh garden jalapenos in the mix....
