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Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

posted August 13, 2010 in Two Peas and Their Pod

It’s Friday and we are celebrating with banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! There is no better way to start the weekend than by baking a batch of cookies. If you are like me, you probably have brown bananas on your counter that are begging (read full article)

Simple Secrets: How to Fast Freeze Fresh Tomatoes at Home

posted August 10, 2010 in Frugal Luxuries Food

When the farm stand tomatoes are so well priced at five (or more) for just one dollar I like to buy them in abundance and freeze them for future use. For awhile...I took on the tedious, humid task of blanching each one before freezing...until... (read full article)

Easy Chocolate Chip cookie, and a prelude to a giveaway!

posted August 09, 2010 in Snacksgiving

A food blog can never really be complete without at least one recipe of the 'perfect' chocolate chip cookie, or at least the journey to finding one. I was myself a bit surprised that the one that I had made many moons ago, was not posted yet on the b (read full article)

How to Make Easy Mexican Cookies

posted August 07, 2010 in Recipes for the Family

Learn how to make easy Mexican cookies. Polvorones de Canele, also known as cinnamon cookies, are easy to make and delicious especially if you love desserts and have a sweet tooth. Hosting a summer party, a special celebration or a (read full article)

Blackberry-Almond Shortbread Squares

posted August 04, 2010 in La Mia Vita Dolce

I really need to start exercising some restraint at the farmer’s market.  If you could only see my fridge during the summer months.  I have bowls and bowls of juicy berries and fresh fruit of all kinds.  I always way over buy.  The three of (read full article)

EASY Italian Herb Foccacia Bread

posted August 03, 2010 in Una Mamma Italiana

this Italian herb focaccia recipe is one of those quick ones you can throw together with whats already in your pantry. I like to cut them into bread sticks and OF COURSE serve them with pasta:) In two hours (including prep time, rising time, and ba (read full article)

Delicious Strawberry Dessert

A friend of mine invited us for a treat and makes this lovely colorful delicious strawberry dessert for us. She told that her hubby made this strawberry dessert on their first date and she was clean bold at the taste, when he proposed, the poor girl (read full article)

Impossibly Squashed Pie

posted July 28, 2010 in Confessions of a Serial Baker

This turns out sorta like a quiche, but there's no dry crumbly crust on the bottom, which is what a lot of people object to with your typical quiche. I served this with some yummy olive tapanade, the recipe for which will be posted tomorrow... Imposs (read full article)

Flour-less Peanut Butter Cookies

I first came across the notion of flour-less peanut butter cookies at book club. The year was somewhere around 2003 or 2004, and we were gathered at the home of a member, debating our next six months of selections. A few of us had brought along a d (read full article)

Delicious Chicken Empanadas

Those of you have visited Buenos Aires I think you all have tatsed Empanadas. A delicious pastry stuffed with meat, olives, ham, cheese, spinach, corn and even apples.I am sharing a very simple chicken empanadas recipe with you today hope you will l (read full article)

Squashed Tart

posted July 24, 2010 in Confessions of a Serial Baker

More cheese would weigh it down...Puff Pastry Squashed TartI didn't use a recipe for this, I just kinda threw it together last minute. There's not a lot to it, but it was very tasty and I really cannot offer suggestions to improve upon it. One could (read full article)

Flourless Almond Butter Cookies

posted July 17, 2010 in Tasty Eats At Home

In a continuation of this past Daring Cooks’ challenge, I decided to incorporate my homemade nut butters into several sweet recipes. One such recipe seemed only natural – a nut butter cookie! I saw a post for flourless peanut butter cooki (read full article)

Retake Homemade: Mini Pizza Puffs

posted July 17, 2010 in Pots and Plots

The inspiration for this recipe hails from the April 2010 issue of Everyday With Rachael Ray (pg. 83).  I offer this up as a homemade alternative to stuff like Totinos pizza roles.  They’re fresh, light, easy as can be, and a WHOLE lot health (read full article)

Blueberry Cheesecake Squares

Now this is one of those recipes that has a backstory, so hunker down. A few weeks ago, we celebrated my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. We had a wedding cake and great music, and many many friends and family, and it didn't rain. Thank you, Lord.T (read full article)

Brownie Hearts – Chocolate Goodness

posted July 09, 2010 in La Mia Vita Dolce

Obviously the mad confusion of yesterday has spilt on to today.  Hope you enjoy the Raspberry, Blueberry, Cream Cheese and Mascarpone Pound Cakes I shared with you earlier today but I completely forgot to share my other delicious treat with you. Did (read full article)

S'MORES ON A STICK

posted July 04, 2010 in Let's Dish

Ingredients 1 (10 oz.) package marshmallows 12 ounces dipping chocolate 2 cups graham cracker crumbs Sucker sticks Colored sprinkles or jimmies (optional) Directions Poke a sucker stick into the flat end of each marshmallow, pushing the stick m (read full article)

The FunnySpoon Five: Faves of the Season

Where did spring go? How is it already summer? Time sure does fly! We hope you enjoyed all our spring recipe recommendations and are all geared up for summer! But before we say goodbye to spring, here's a round-up of the top five most-viewed recipe (read full article)

Chewy Chocolate Cookies

posted June 23, 2010 in Winelady Cooks

I came across this recipe that claimed to be gluten free. It got my attention, not because it was gluten free but I noticed that the recipe was short, seemed easy enough to prepare, and it looked like my kind of chocolate cookie.I had all the ingred (read full article)

Sugar Cookie Icing

posted June 16, 2010 in Lucy's Soup Can

 Ease: 5/5     Kid-friendliness: 5/5     Taste: 5/5     Time: 5/5A cookie decorating party would not be complete without colored icing. I found this over at allrecipes.com. I altered it only slightly. It worked (read full article)

Garlic Cheese Popovers

posted June 14, 2010 in Healthy Living Blog

Yesterday was a bit of a rainy day for us.  The kids wanted a snack and something to do.  So I looked through my bookmarks to see what I could find, to have fun making with the kids!  Tiffanee at One Crazy Cookie made these a while bac (read full article)

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