Pineapple and Coconut - Page 3 of 8 - Healthy Eats, Sweet Treats and a little bit of everything else.

Guinness Stout Mini Bundt Cakes with Baileys Buttercream

By Shanna on March 11, 2013 43 Comments

I am not Irish. But I love cakes. Especially boozy cakes. Like these Guinness Stout Mini Bundt Cakes with Baileys Buttercream and Irish Whiskey Caramel Sauce. Boozy cakes with boozy butter cream and boozy caramel sauce. Seriously doesn’t get much better than this. I finally got to use the mini bunt pan that I stole [...]

Very Pink Raspberry Cosmopolitan Cocktail

By Shanna on March 8, 2013 19 Comments

Very Pink Raspberry Cosmopolitan PineappleandCoconut (2)

This amazing cocktail, the Very Pink Raspberry Cosmopolitan, I made for a guest post on my friend Barb’s blog,Creative Culinary. There are two reasons I am making this cocktail one is from a fond memory of turning 21. The other reason I am sharing this drink because Barb, told me that her daughter has recently [...]

Cinnamon Dolce Oatmeal Cookies

By Shanna on March 7, 2013 19 Comments

I am excited about these cookies for two reasons. First – these are the best oatmeal cookies I have ever had/made. Well one of two batches that is. The first batch ( and where I got the idea for the recipe for these) is originally from Cassie of Bake Your Day, Coffee and Cream Oatmeal [...]

Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Pineapple and Anaheim Chili Salsa

By Shanna on February 28, 2013 12 Comments

Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Pineapple and Anaheim Chili Marinade and Salsa PineappleandCoconut (3)

This pork tenderloin is good. Like really. And see that rice? yup that’s the cilantro lime rice from the other day. I made this meal a few days ago and I was going to post the pork recipe first but there was only one problem… We ate it. All of it. None left. I had [...]

Mexican Style Cilantro Lime Rice

By Shanna on February 26, 2013 11 Comments

Cilantro Lime Rice Pineappleandcoconut (4)

I have a thing for rice; it has to be cooked a certain way and there are really two ways I like it – sticky as in Jasmine at Thai or sushi restaurants or Mexican style, or red rice as my kids call it. This is green rice. Well its supposed to be green, it [...]

Odds and Ends. Sunday Stuff (One year in Vegas, and other fun stuff)

By Shanna on February 24, 2013 13 Comments

They say time flies when you’re having fun, and this past year has been a blast since we just celebrated one year of living in fabulous Las Vegas. I can’t believe its been a year in Vegas already. I have to say its a trip living here. Its like two completely different cities. There’s the [...]

Gluten Free Meyer Lemon and Blueberry Pancakes

By Shanna on February 22, 2013 27 Comments

If I HAD to choose one food I could eat for the rest of my life, it would be breakfast. Yeah ok so that isn’t ONE food, but a category. But still. Breakfast is awesome. Especially when pancakes are involved. I would also choose pancakes like these. Big, fat, fluffy pancakes. With meyer lemons and [...]

Hula Hula Tropical Smoothie

By Shanna on February 19, 2013 23 Comments

It’s about this time of year I get a major craving to head west for a few hours and land in Hawaii. Okay soooo maybe I crave that year round. So I try to help curb those cravings with my favorite smoothie. There is this coffee shop in Kauai called Java Kai. It has the [...]

Smoky Romanesco, Celery Root and Broccoli Soup

By Shanna on February 17, 2013 17 Comments

I am beginning to call Saturdays around here Soup – er Saturdays. I know, kind of dorky. But I have been making a ton of soup lately and its always influenced what we get in our CSA/Bountiful Basket organic veggie haul every Saturday am. Most of what we get we know we are getting and [...]

Black Angus Cookies

By Shanna on February 16, 2013 10 Comments

Do you like cookies? Do you like chocolate? Then these cookies are for you. Black Angus Cookies. I had never heard of them before until my friend Dave told me that he has a two-a-day habit that he gets form the Wedge Community co-op across the street from the gym he owns in Minneapolis. Knowing [...]

Chief Mike’s Loaded Chocolate Chip Cookies

By Shanna on February 12, 2013 25 Comments

Two weeks ago I hit a milestone on Facebook for my blog page. 500 “likes”. I was STOKED. My friend Jen shared the love on her page, Thrive, to help me achieve this and one of her fans turned out to be my 500th like. So he said because of that I should make cookies [...]

Paleo Almond Joy Cookies

By Shanna on February 10, 2013 20 Comments

So when I made those coconut peanut butter cookies the other week, I was thinking ” hmmm I wonder how these would be with almond butter instead of peanut butter” I could call them “Paleo” that way. I don’t know all the strict rules of the “Paleo Diet” But from what I have heard peanut [...]