Some of my children’s friends have a gluten allergy which makes it challenging around birthday time because my kids want to have cake at their parties but don’t want to leave anyone out of enjoying this birthday treat. Last year we decided to make a gluten free four layer birthday “cake” out of gluten free puffed rice…
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How to Make Delicious Chocolate Covered Bacon
Yesterday I saw this tweet which reminded me that i have been dying to make some chocolate covered bacon. I have seen and heard about this amazing delicacy for quite some time now but have never tried it. This was my call to duty. I hopped to action. Armed only with a half pound of bacon and…
The Best Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread Ever
We belong to a CSA and have gotten quite a few GIANT zucchinis so I immediately thought of zucchini bread. I love zucchini bread and for years now I’ve been searching for a good recipe that makes a nice, dense and moist zucchini bread and I’ve finally found it. The ladies over at Divas Can…
Super Simple Dessert – Strawberry Sunrise
Whip up this simple dessert in no time! The other night we had just finished dinner and the girls were asking for dessert. Looking around I realized we had some whipping cream, shortbread cookies I had baked the night before and some fresh strawberries from our CSA so in 15 minutes I had a lovely…
Super Easy Thick Delicious Greek Style Yogurt
A few weeks ago I showed you how to make yogurt in your slow cooker and mentioned how I used it to make Greek style yogurt. To make this tick, almost cream cheese like yogurt, simply put the yogurt in a strainer lined with a clean thin dishtowel (or preferably cheesecloth which I didn’t have)….
Moist and Fluffy Chocolate Espresso Muffins
Frequently I make up my own dinner recipes, marinades etc. but I have never been able to make up a recipe that involved baking until now. I recently got a kitchen scale and started researching about ratios in baking. I’ve learned that for muffins you should combine 2 parts flower with 2 parts liquid with 1…
Slow Cooker Yogurt – Make Yogurt In Your Slow Cooker or CrockPot
So I’ve always thought that I didn’t like yogurt but I buy it because my kids do. Purchasing organic yogurt (greek yogurt too) can get expensive and I’ve heard that you can make yogurt in a slow cooker so I started looking around at various recipes for slow cooker yogurt and found some short and…
Chris’ Delicious Whole Wheat Pancakes from Scratch
Over the summer we had the opportunity to go away for a week with friends to the Delaware bay. It was there that my breakfast making forever changed. I learned how to cook bacon in the oven (a whole pound in under 20 minutes but I’ll leave that for another post) and I also learned…