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04.17.2015
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
These Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are insanely good! Like you cut off a slice and then suddenly the whole pan is gone good! If you’ve never made brown butter before, watch the video in this post to see how to make brown butter. It tastes amazing and adds such a richness to this…
04.15.2015
Skinny Orange Blueberry Mojito
This Skinny Orange Blueberry Mojito is such a perfect and refreshing drink! If you love this recipe, you’ll love my classic mojito recipe. I realized after we moved into a slightly bigger house that I kind of love entertaining. Girls’ nights in, Christmas morning brunch, Thanksgiving dinner, Fourth of July BBQ’s, big over the top birthday…
04.14.2015
EOS Lip Balm Teacher Appreciation Printable
This EOS Lip Balm Teacher Appreciation Printable makes for an easy and cute teacher appreciation note! Get the FREE PDF printable below, or if you have a Silhouette, grab the cut and print file! When I think back to when Gavin was about three, I remember that I never really let anyone babysit him. Like ever.…
04.09.2015
Butterscotch Toffee Popcorn
This Butterscotch Toffee Popcorn is THREE ingredients and only takes about five minutes to make! Remember the other day when I mentioned that the toddler had the stomach flu . . . Yeah. Well . . . keep that going, multiply it by one kid, add in a five week ear infection that won’t quit in…
04.06.2015
Blackberry Turkey Sub
This Blackberry Turkey Sub is one of my favorite things to order and my favorite restaurant! Simple but FULL of flavor! Did you have a good Easter weekend? Ours was . . . eventful. Old Man Winter decided to give us the finger one last time and left me with a terrible cold and Quinn…
04.01.2015
Overnight Spinach Artichoke Strata
This Overnight Spinach Artichoke Strata makes for a delicious breakfast casserole ready to throw in the morning! It’s come to my attention that Piper was most certainly a Ninja or a Green Beret in a past life. It was a couple of months ago and Nathan and I were snuggling with Piper in bed while…
03.30.2015
Eggplant Raviolini Soup
This Eggplant Raviolini Soup only has FIVE ingredients, comes together easily, and is so delicious! Another updated picture post! You guys, please promise me you won’t go searching for the old photo, okay? I remember when I took the pictures and I thought, “OMG. These photos are amazing.” And I wasn’t actually crazy (#itotallywas), because…
03.17.2015
Samoa Fudge
When you can’t wait to get your Samoa Girl Scout cookies, just make this Samoa Fudge! It is easy to make and full of the best flavor combination of caramel, chocolate, and coconut! It its only five ingredients and it needs to be the next fudge recipe that you make! For some reason I’ve been…
03.16.2015
Sheep Cupcakes
Sheep Cupcakes! Cute and unbelievably delicious!! I originally made these sheep cupcakes back when Gavin was turning five for his Skylander party. Aren’t they almost too cute to eat? Well, since it’s almost Easter, and sheep are so cute and spring like, I thought the recipe and the photos could use a little updating. Well…
03.13.2015
Spicy Chipotle Hummus
This Spicy Chipotle Hummus is easy to throw together and makes a perfect appetizer or snack! This is a great spin on classic hummus. I don’t think that when I became a parent I realized all the horrible music I would be subjected to. And now, 7 and a half years later, I wake up…
03.11.2015
Salted Caramel Chocolate Mug Cake
This Salted Caramel Chocolate Mug Cake is your rich and delicious answer to a chocolate craving! When I started food blogging, I never realized how many times a week I would find myself at the grocery store. Even with being, what I have been told is, the luckiest woman alive and having my husband doing…
03.06.2015
Samoa Cake
This Samoa Cake is the perfect combination of chocolate, caramel, and coconut. Moist, delicious, and perfectly rich! So, you know how sometimes on Facebook you can see what your friends post on their other friends’ walls? Have you ever gotten sucked into the Facebook hole where you then click on the friend of the friend’s…