Latest Recipes

Baking, Desserts

Designer Cookies: Salted Butter and Chocolate Chunk Shortbread

Shortbread meets chocolate chip cookies with a sweet crust and a salty topping in this glorious recipe by Alison Roman. I have been making these quite a bit and have finally gotten the recipe documented to share with all of you. Please give yourself time to prep and chill the dough for about 2 hours. The recipe calls for parchment, but I used my Silpat and they worked beautifully. Please […]

American, Salads, Side Dish, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Fresh Corn Salad

When you find yourself with leftover corn on the cob, this Fresh Corn Salad is the perfect recipe. Of course, you can just cook the fresh corn as the recipe says and carry on, but I like to use this recipe to resurrect day-old corn from death aka the trash. It’s so fresh and delightful. I hope you love it!

American, Appetizers, Vegetarian

Baked Jalapeno Poppers

Jalapeno Poppers are my jam. Usually, in take-out fashion, they are breaded and deep fried. And in my humble foodtastic opinion, that just masks the fiery tastiness of the actual pepper with greasy ick nast fattiness. Hello, I want deliciousness from my poppers! My version requires you to remember to leave out half a hunk of cream cheese to get room temperature softness. You also must chop up half an […]

Baking, Desserts

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

My Mommom made the most fabulous Chocolate Zucchini Cake when I was growing up. I thought it was time to bring this cake back so that our family’s younger generations could enjoy it as much as my sisters and I did baaaaaaack in the day. My sis Monica noted that my grandmother didn’t make it THAT much. And that’s probably because she grated the zucchini with a box grater, which […]

Main, Vegetarian

Veggie Fried Rice

In my little family of three, leftovers happen. So when I have a bit of cooked rice on hand, I love to whip up this Veggie Fried Rice dish as a nice lunch or light dinner. I pretty much have all the ingredients at all times – the prepper that I am. And this is so versatile. You can seriously swap out veggies with what you have or love.  I […]